I hit my head against the lynolium floor in the timeout room at the special school to get released from it, i don’t trust my head to keep memories for me late in my life so i’ll stick to taking photos thanks.

The problem seems to be in treating all photographs as art and thinking about what the camera is doing at all. I’ve been filming so much of my every day life since my kid was born and it’s never gotten in the way of actually being present. Sure, the videos are often pointed off to the side and very shaky, and the subject may not even be in frame at all, but it still sufficiently captures the moment to be worthwhile. We take these videos to preserve memories, not for whatever artistic value they may have.

This was a great read. I think that it’s more important for most to have “proof” of something these days rather than creating the memory or god forbid, attempting something artistic.