Gabriel Barcia-Colombo

5 Years Later we played the same mini golf Game and traveled through time!

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Pin the unicorn on the unicorn.

I spent today trying to program video onto a cheap-0 digital photo frame. After 3 hours of working with the digital mess I gave up hanging my head low in defeat.  On the way back to my bedroom, I noticed a picture frame set on a bookshelf. Inside the frame was a picture of my sister and I on Halloween. I was dressed like a pirate and my sister, barely a year old sat on my lap in a snug tiger costume. This is the exact moment when I realized that Digital Photo Frames are stupid.  The whole point of a picture frame is to capture and showcase one specific memory as a permanent part of your life. It’s a choice, a message to everyone who visits your house that this memory is particularly special to your family. The picture of my sister and I on Halloween lives on this specific bookshelf outside my bedroom.  It becomes an architectural addition to the house. The photo in the frame is chosen as a particular memory, not a cycling slideshow of memories from different times and places loaded haphazardly onto some memory card.  If I want to take a closer look at the photo in a traditional frame I can pick it up and gaze, I don’t have to wait for the frame to cycle through.  The entire point of a picture frame is to establish permanence, to isolate a particular moment as special and digital photo frames completely negate the concept of memory and timelessness.