Afternoon all,
Those of you who are my Facebook friends may be aware of a photo gallery I have been updating daily called 'The 'What I Had For Dinner' Project'; it is, quite simply, a photo journal of what I have for dinner (aka. the post-afternoon meal) each day. I have the grand intention of keeping this food diary for one whole year, well, just over so I can end on the day I started, except in 2009, because otherwise I'd have time-travelled and, cool though that may be, it would just be odd and inconvenient and would mean I'd only been documenting my dinner for one day, yet I would have 366 photos... so it'd be exactly like the end of the film 'Contact'. Except with photos of my dinner. Other than that, EXACTLY like the end of the film 'Contact'.
I've decided to include this blog entry to try and lure outside people into the seedy world of my food photography (the gallery should be accessible to all by clicking on these words) and to give perhaps a little more 'insight' into my fears and paranoias relating to this foodblog, or flog, or waste of time (delete as appropriate).
I was recently told that the new issue of the New Scientist (the New New Scientist) featured an article about photographing ones meals, and I was both dismayed that someone had ripped me off but pleased that this kind of strange behavior was newsworthy in a positive sense. Anyway, for those who care the article can be read HERE. There are a number of differences between the food diaries reported about in the article and my own project, but it is true that I have become very conscious of what I am eating (but only at dinner time, I had two Double Deckers at lunch) and I am not looking forward to the moment when I eat something that I've already had before, it feels like a bit of a defeat and I fear that defeat may happen tonight. I am also aware that I've been a tad frivilous with my money and my budget for the following weeks pre-payday is going to be a lot stricter, and thus the repetition in my meals may increase as a result of laziness. This dramatic downsizing occurs because of a weekend trip that's eating up (no pun intended, but now accepted) my food budget.
Tonight marks 'Dee Suvun-teeen'* (as the Big Brother voiceover man would say) of the project and it is strange to look back at yesterday's photograph and think; 'That wasn't yesterday? Surely? That seems like forever ago! Yet where did today go?'
Right, I've got a few things to do before I embark upon the grand mission of dinner, hope you're well whatever you may be up to.
Owain. x
*Day Seventeen
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