Connections- Well to start off, on page 32 the author starts talking about artists taking multiple pictures over a long period of time, and how they first did this by posting the final videos on youtube, and that’s when youtube became popular and my connection to this is that I’ve definitely seen videos like this before, but I’ve seen them on facebook about kids’ first days of school or on instagram photographing each week or month of pregnancy, so I think they’ve come a really long way and I find that really interesting. Another connection I made to this is that one of my fellow classmates has a youtube channel and did a video of random people but told all of them the same thing, “You’re beautiful” and got each person reaction to that small statement, and it was such a cute video to watch, and this chapter really brought that video back into my mind.

Comments- On page 35, the author makes a statement about artists and photographers, “Of course we not only have centuries of diaries and self-portraits, but also have flash narratives that are as short as tweets, photocopies zines that episodically tell stories from the artist-authors’ life and artists like Tehching Hsiech, who have taken photos of themselves everyday for a year.” This lengthy quote simply reminded me of snapchat, because, usually when you’re “snapchatting” someone, you’re sending each other selfies back and forth, with or without words. One last comment I wanted to make was how sad and honestly disgusted I was when I read the little comments the author had put in this article that were made towards the artists in the youtube videos, what a sad world we live in. Getting out down when we positively express ourselves.

Keywords/ Main ideas- One thing I took as a main idea is when the author said, “Both artists and the developers create art and tools that respond to the culture at that time” I think that was a really good thing to say because it is so important to move with the times and go with the demand of the people, that’s how the word works. One another big thing I thought was good the author had mentioned is this within this quote, “Part of the fascination of watching time lapse selfies is watching how the subject changes and eventually ages.” I think this is a big thing because it deals with time, and time is such an interesting topic because it’s unstoppable yet very controllable, and a lot of people like studying time and the effects it has on us.