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The Scrapbookening Continues
Two weeks ago, I posted about my recent excursions in scrapbooking. Since that time, the scrapbook bug has only bitten deeper, to such an extent that I sorted through all my photos on Facebook, LJ, and Twitter for scrapbooking purposes.
In this process, I discovered:
1. The resolution on Facebook photographs is terrible, but they actually look pretty all right if you print them out at half size.
2. Actually it is nice to have some half size photos! Variety in photo size/shape adds visual interest to a page, especially if said page is built more or less entirely off photographs.
3. Jury is still out on the quality of the Twitter photos, but I am suspicious.
4. Especially because it turns out that if you scroll back through the feed on your Twitter profile, it eventually just stops! Long before it reaches your actual first tweet! I don’t know if you could reach an earlier tweet if you happened to have it bookmarked, or if they have simply been scoured from the internet.
5. Although there is clearly some record of that earlier data somewhere, as you can retrieve your earlier photos if you download your Twitter archive.
6. This was a great relief, because otherwise there was a period from July 2018 to September 2021 during which I posted exactly one photo. The Twitter downloading has cut the blank spot down to July 2018 to December 2019.
7. I am of course planning a 2018/2019 page, on black paper, entitled “A Digital Dark Age,” with my single lonely “I voted!” selfie from November 2018, plus a list of events (written in silver gel pen) which I could have scrapbooked had I ever printed the photos out. The black bear and the beaver and the hillside of blueberries in Canada! My very first Heartland Film Fest! My 2019 trip to Massachusetts…
I also have an “I voted!” sticker to go on this page. Is it the actual 2018 sticker, or an extra that I got at some other time? Who can say! Almost certainly from later, actually. However, there are times when one embraces truth of mood rather than exact literal truth while scrapbooking.
8. Speaking of digital dark ages, it’s been a bit sobering to go through these old photos and find so many broken links - some of my photos have mysteriously disappeared, Livejournals and Twitters deleted, etc. (The half-life on Twitter reviews is especially dire.) Thinking about dedicating a scrapbook page to each of my books so as to collect the reviews.
In this process, I discovered:
1. The resolution on Facebook photographs is terrible, but they actually look pretty all right if you print them out at half size.
2. Actually it is nice to have some half size photos! Variety in photo size/shape adds visual interest to a page, especially if said page is built more or less entirely off photographs.
3. Jury is still out on the quality of the Twitter photos, but I am suspicious.
4. Especially because it turns out that if you scroll back through the feed on your Twitter profile, it eventually just stops! Long before it reaches your actual first tweet! I don’t know if you could reach an earlier tweet if you happened to have it bookmarked, or if they have simply been scoured from the internet.
5. Although there is clearly some record of that earlier data somewhere, as you can retrieve your earlier photos if you download your Twitter archive.
6. This was a great relief, because otherwise there was a period from July 2018 to September 2021 during which I posted exactly one photo. The Twitter downloading has cut the blank spot down to July 2018 to December 2019.
7. I am of course planning a 2018/2019 page, on black paper, entitled “A Digital Dark Age,” with my single lonely “I voted!” selfie from November 2018, plus a list of events (written in silver gel pen) which I could have scrapbooked had I ever printed the photos out. The black bear and the beaver and the hillside of blueberries in Canada! My very first Heartland Film Fest! My 2019 trip to Massachusetts…
I also have an “I voted!” sticker to go on this page. Is it the actual 2018 sticker, or an extra that I got at some other time? Who can say! Almost certainly from later, actually. However, there are times when one embraces truth of mood rather than exact literal truth while scrapbooking.
8. Speaking of digital dark ages, it’s been a bit sobering to go through these old photos and find so many broken links - some of my photos have mysteriously disappeared, Livejournals and Twitters deleted, etc. (The half-life on Twitter reviews is especially dire.) Thinking about dedicating a scrapbook page to each of my books so as to collect the reviews.