Creeva’s World 2.0

This post has mul­ti­ple parts to it, so fair warn­ing I’m guess­ing this one is going to be long.   Lately I’ve been more and more annoyed at tra­di­tional hard copy media.  It’s a pain in the butt to deal with and takes up way too much phys­i­cal space (for those that know me you find that sen­tence greatly amusing).

Pic­tures

This started hap­pen­ing over the last year with photo albums.   Photo albums are ter­ri­ble.   It means nor­mally that one per­son has a copy of the image and you can’t share them.  It is essen­tially tech­nol­ogy of the last gen­er­a­tion.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m a believer in hav­ing prints, but the pic­tures themselves.

I’ve made it my mis­sion to start get­ting the fam­ily pho­tos and scan­ning them in.   I’ve man­aged to get most of my father’s pho­tos from the era he was with my mother.   The ones I’m miss­ing are any he has of the kids hang­ing on the walls in his house.   My next run is going to be the pic­tures from his cur­rent fam­ily (so a good 15–16 years worth of pic­tures to go).

My grand­mother on the other hand has been very tight­fisted with her pho­tos.  I can under­stand her being pro­tec­tive, but so far I’ve man­aged to get 59 pho­tos out of her to scan (out of lit­er­ally over a 1000–2000).   I have man­aged to scan my photo album, and more recently used the dig­i­tal SLR and took pic­tures of my scrap book from high school.   So both of these can be tucked away in boxes that I don’t need to look at and take up phys­i­cal space in my house.

All the pho­tos I have are now uploaded to Flickr.   You can also read about my photo shar­ing issue with my mother over here.

Con­tin­ued tomor­row in part 2