NYC + KC Update

Have you all been keeping up on our NYC + KC experiment on the upper left hand corner of the homepage? No? Well, let’s catch you up. My buddy Theresa and I have now been taking a photo each day for thirty-five days, and are hoping to keep this going for a whole year. As each day passes, I find our pictures growing more and more similar. Either they seem to belong together, or I can find some theme intertwined within them.

Note, we’re not telling each other what we’re taking photos of before they are posted, and we don’t look at the other person’s photo until our own has been posted. Any coincidental similarities have happened by a wonderful, fabulous accident.

To see my old favorites, or learn more about the NYC + KC project, click here.

Our loves, sleeping. Also known as, blond siamese twins.

Flowers.

One of my very favorites. On the left is a quote from a NYC street artist, De La Vega, which says “Become Your Dream” on a trash bin. On the right is a wall of old family photos.

Keys and Lu’s shoes. This would mean more if you know T or I personally, because we’re both not very “pink” people, but somehow both had a pink picture.

Fire and water.

Both of us currently think this is our favorite of the series. The way the pictures are of very different things, but seem to blend together, they just seem to fit. The pop of red and serene mood of each photo are as if they belong next to each other.

You can keep up with the NYC + KC project on our Flickr page, here, where we post photos and side by side comparisons daily.

I have to say, this project is one of the most rewarding things I’ve done in 2009, and I’m really proud of us for taking it on. Lately I’ve been thinking of the quote “Creativity is the deepest form of prayer.” I’m not one to believe in too much, but my soul has felt pretty full in the last month or so, and my mind is much more restful than it normally is.

Granted, it could just be a form of self preservation, blocking out all the bad news of the world combined with drinking large amounts of bourbon, but let’s pretend it’s because I’m being more creative, OK? Great.