Entries Tagged as 'Nostalgia'

40 Days until 40: Day 29, 2003

January 25th, 2015 · Comments Off on 40 Days until 40: Day 29, 2003

As Winter Storm Juno bears down on the northeast, today’s snowy photo is fitting (though I thought it was taken as Aimee and I wandered the deserted, snow-covered streets of Boston during the great blizzard of February, 2003, a.k.a. The Presidents’ Day Storm II, but the metadata says it was taken in December of ’03. […]

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40 Days until 40: Day 28, 2002

January 24th, 2015 · Comments Off on 40 Days until 40: Day 28, 2002

2002 brought my first paid work in the field of film archives, a summer job working at the Harvard Depository in Southborough, Massachusetts, checking prints in the Harvard Film Archive collection for acetate deterioration. Here I am on May 8, documenting the fact that I was actually doing this (and that I had actually grown […]

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40 Days until 40: Day 27, 2001

January 23rd, 2015 · Comments Off on 40 Days until 40: Day 27, 2001

And so, in 2001, we leave the era of the photochemical photograph, never to return. The glasses are back, and there’s a weird attempt at long sideburns, plus this pseudo turtleneck that began unraveling the day I bought it. The first digital photograph in this project, this picture was taken after midnight on the morning […]

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40 Days until 40: Day 26, 2000

January 22nd, 2015 · Comments Off on 40 Days until 40: Day 26, 2000

March of 2000, somewhere on Oxford Street in London. I always hear the Verve’s “Bittersweet Symphony” in my head when I see this photo, and Brent’s matching shot. This trip was one of five I took to the UK, once a year between 1999 and 2003, when flights were cheap, vacation days plentiful, and responsibilities […]

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Tags: Nostalgia · Photos · Projects · Travel · U.K.

40 Days until 40: Day 25, 1999

January 21st, 2015 · Comments Off on 40 Days until 40: Day 25, 1999

It’s Christmas of 1999, upstairs in my apartment over the middle school, in my last year in Greenwich. Mom and Dad came down from Alaska, Scott and his fiancee Sarah came up from Virginia, and we celebrated with an incredibly dinky tree I undoubtedly bought at Caldor, decorated with a Y2K preparedness card used to […]

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40 Days until 40: Day 24, 1998

January 20th, 2015 · Comments Off on 40 Days until 40: Day 24, 1998

I’ve now had a year of teaching second graders and moonlighting as a high-priced babysitter in Fairfield County under my belt when this photo was taken, in the summer of 1998. I’m standing in the school parking lot next to the first car I ever bought, a 1988 Honda Accord with a manual transmission and […]

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40 Days until 40: Day 23, 1997

January 19th, 2015 · Comments Off on 40 Days until 40: Day 23, 1997

1997 was a big year: final year of college, then graduation, then a 40 day road trip, and then my first real job. The road trip was the highlight, I have to say, and so I’ve chosen this photo, memorializing the moment when I was in four states at the same time. There are a […]

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40 Days until 40: Day 22, 1996

January 18th, 2015 · Comments Off on 40 Days until 40: Day 22, 1996

Sitting in my single in Morrow Dorm in the spring of 1996. I had spent the previous semester in the UK, and this somewhat less-than-desirable dorm was the place that had singles available for people like me, returning mid-year. This picture is loaded with little details; first, what in the world is that wall hanging? […]

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Tags: Amherst · Nostalgia · Photos · Projects

40 Days until 40: Day 21, 1995

January 17th, 2015 · Comments Off on 40 Days until 40: Day 21, 1995

Between August and December of 1995, I lived in England, traveling around for the first few weeks, then settling in Cambridge for the fall semester of school. I had a great time, but the program I studied under was a little strange, mostly acting students from the U.S. there to do drama, stage fighting, directing, […]

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40 Days until 40: Day 20, 1994

January 16th, 2015 · Comments Off on 40 Days until 40: Day 20, 1994

Sometime in the spring of freshman year at Amherst, I reached Peak Hair. Also, those glasses needed to go. I’m not sure where or when this photo was taken, or why those light leaks happened. I find it hard to believe I really felt like this was the look I was going for, but there […]

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40 Days until 40: Day 19, 1993

January 15th, 2015 · Comments Off on 40 Days until 40: Day 19, 1993

Posing with a gift while sitting at the kitchen table on the night of May 26, 1993, after my graduation from high school. Long (for me) hair, paisley tie, with my new Case Logic binder (great for bringing all of those CDs to college!) on the table (and on a side note, I just emptied […]

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40 Days until 40: Day 18, 1992

January 14th, 2015 · Comments Off on 40 Days until 40: Day 18, 1992

I’ve always made questionable fashion choices, but I did not make a habit of wearing that bandanna, as far as I can recall, beyond this photo. This is a birthday gathering in February of 1992, a photo taken by Sloan or Alecia or Brent or Steve, who are in other photos on this roll, sitting […]

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40 Days until 40: Day 17, 1991

January 13th, 2015 · Comments Off on 40 Days until 40: Day 17, 1991

Me, getting a little “crazy” for the camera, at CTY, on the campus of Franklin & Marshall in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, sometime in August of 1991. It was my fifth and last session of the beloved summer camp, and I had a great group of friends, felt really at home there, and was generally enjoying being […]

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40 Days until 40: Day 16, 1990

January 12th, 2015 · Comments Off on 40 Days until 40: Day 16, 1990

Another school photo, but not only can I not seem to find another usable photo from this year, but I think that this photo and the previous one illustrate some big changes in my life. It’s the fall of 1990, and I’ve given up trying some “cool” haircut, I’ve gotten my braces off once and […]

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40 Days until 40: Day 15, 1989

January 11th, 2015 · Comments Off on 40 Days until 40: Day 15, 1989

This one hurts. It’s the fall of 1989, I’m 14 and, it doesn’t get much more awkward than this. My painstakingly cultivated “side-spike,” groomed just so for school picture day, my too-big glasses, and the attempt at a braces-disguising smile. This looks like the photo you’d see under dictionary entry for “freshman.”

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