One of the greatest contributions to the world of visual blogging in the past year is no doubt 3191: A Year of Mornings, a collaboration between Stephanie Barnes (who happens to be my sister) and Maria Vettese. Stephanie lives in Portland, Oregon and Maria in Portland, Maine. The two became friends over the internet through their love of photography and design—in fact, they have only met in person once for less than two hours. They live 3191 miles apart.
Their collaboration is quite simple in concept: about 4-5 mornings a week, Maria and Stephanie each take a photograph. Stephanie sends hers to Maria and Maria makes a diptych of the two photos and posts them for everyone to see on their site. Nothing is choreographed, nothing is staged, nothing is planned ahead—except that they will each take a photo of something in their world each weekday. And yet, each morning the diptych they create appears so intentional, completely harmonious—almost without fail.
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i have that creamer! do you have any idea what it’s called? i’d love to collect more.
sadly, neither of the links to 3191 is working, at least for me. what a lovely project, though, based on these selections.
nbm, just remove the www from the links and they should work.
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