If you hadn't already gathered - I'm extremely picky - liking roughly 1 in 50 things that I see. So I've consumed a vast amount to build a hoard of this size. I find it no chore to digest massive amounts of visual information, it's a pleasure. Rather like the Victorian butterfly collector, I cherish rare beauties and pin them in my book to reflect on later.
I frequently revisit the hoard and delete anything that no longer 'speaks' to me. This is a natural evolution of my taste and eye. This analysis helps to identify trends in my collection: colour spectrums, light and shadow, atmosphere, nature, kawaii, minimalism etc.
I hope that soon the right platform will exist for me to have my entire hoard in a cloud based archive (rather like delicious) where I can use my own taxonomy to tag the images. In the meantime I'll keep collecting and digitising my paper hoard...
I have started my own modest inspiration folder on my laptop, counted 64 images so far. Over 8500 images in a year? Thats amazing
ReplyDeleteMe too, I grab and drop into folders expanding into sub folders.
ReplyDeleteIf visual is your passion, it shows on your desktop, cupboards, boxes, drawers, shredder bin, under the bed, in that bit behind your printer and in your every waking conscious thought!
Great to hear that you're both hoarders too!
ReplyDeleteI do a similar thing but with my camera, i just checked and my total amount of pictures taken over the past five years has been about 55,000 that's about 30 a day, it's funny though as sometimes I wont take any for months and then all of a sudden take loads! I love stats :D
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