This is a personal site, created and curated continuously since early 2000 by Meg Pickard, a creative geek,
passionate photographer, anthropologist and
web experience /community /social media specialist, who works for
The Guardian & lives in London, UK.
The site includes a
blog - a personal and evolving collection of links, opinions, thoughts, ideas, anecdotes and musings - as well as a variety of other
projects. It is also a place to aggregate some of the author's distributed web activity, like photos, links and music.
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This is a personal site. The contents and opinions contained within don't necessarily reflect those of my employer, family, or cat. They think for themselves (though mostly about tuna, in at least one case), and so do I.
Since the overwhelming majority of content on this site is historical, it should be regarded in light of the context in which it was originally published, and not as indicative or revealing of current perspectives, preferences or experience.
While I work and spend a lot of time thinking and talking about social media, participatory technologies and community development strategies, the vast majority of content on this site is not about that.
This personal site isn't about anything, except the perpetual unfolding of one person's experience, and the perspectives, observations and opinions that involves and inspires.
That running from the camera is brilliant! What amuses me greatly is how big in the picture the larger and older people are. Does that make me a bad person?
Absolutely. BAD Rhys. BAD.
I was a bit confused as to whether it was the same person running away in each photo, dressed differently or whatever. But now I think about it, probably not.
I’m not sure now, it could be the same person (there’s no blondes, for one), and the people do look alike.
May’ve just lost some weight, and….aged.
It is me in every picture… how far I manage to get depends mostly on how stable the camera is, I usually don’t use a tripod and if the camera is balancing on the edge of a dustbin or something like that I have to be very careful in pushing the button and I make a slow start…
Aha! Mystery solved. Thank you!
I don’t think I’d be confident leaving my camera balanced on something while running away in the other direction – mainly because, in London, I’d be sure that when I turned around I’d see someone running off in the other direction with my camera….
muggezifter, I’m amazed you’ve never had your camera stolen. Although if you did, and you’d set it onto multiple shots just before, the thief could blog an amazing set of shots of you running away from the camera, turning around, realising it’s being stolen, and then running back towards it to chase the thief.
Well, if you look at the pictures, you will see that most of them were taken in places where there were not many people around… also, occasionally I ask someone to guard the camera for me.
I feel REALLY bad now, my apologies muggezifter :(
Great idea for a blog though :)
The running from camera blog is great. Very funny.
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