Video features 4514 photographs
One a photo a day from January 11, 2000 - June 30, 2012
Artist Noah Kalina takes one self-portrait a day for 12 years
<cite style="font-size: 12px; width: 147px; display: block; font-style: normal; ">Simon Crerar</cite><cite style="font-size: 12px; width: 147px; display: block; font-style: normal; ">News Limited Network</cite>September 05, 20121:44PM
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Transformation: Artist Noah Kalina's new self-portrait video includes 12.5 years of daily portraits: 4,514 photos Source: Supplied
HOW quickly do we age? That's the question answered by US photographer Noah Kalina in a confrontational time-lapse video that dramatically reveals the passage of time.
Everyday is an updated version of a video first produced by Brooklyn-based photographer Noah Kalina in 2006.
It features a rapid montage of thousands of daily self-portraits by Kalina taken everyday since January 11, 2000.
Lifechanging: The video charts Kalina's transformation from sallow-faced teenager to bearded thirtysomething. Source: Supplied
Kalina began taking the photographs soon after the dawn of the 21st century, when he was 19 years old. In each photograph, he stares intensely into the lens with a deadpan, emotionless expression.
Noah Kalina's video features 4,514 photographs shot betwen January 11, 2000 and June 30, 2012 Source: Supplied
In August 2006 Kalina released a video on YouTube edited to show the photos chronologically, showing 2356 days in five minutes, 46 seconds, six pictures per second.
The video went viral and has now been viewed more than 23 million times.
As artist Noah Kalina has aged he has put on weight, grown his hair and an impressive beard. Throughout, his expression remains deadpan. Source: Supplied
In December 2006, television channel VH1 commissioned Kalina to take photographs of himself in the same pose used in Everyday with various celebrities including socialite Paris Hilton, actor David Hasselhoff, porn star Jenna Jameson and rapper will.i.am.
Photographs of Kalina and celebrities taken backstage at the VH1 Big in '06 Awards. In the televised ceremony, several of the pictures were shown before and after commercial breaks. Source: Supplied
In 2007, Kalina's video was included in an exhibition titled "We're All Photographers Now" at the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne.
Discussing the video in a New York Times article, William A. Ewing, director of the Musée de l’Elysée, said that “there is nothing comparable in the history of photography.”
Everyday by Noah Kalina, as displayed in Were All Photographers Now, an exhibition at the Muse de lElyse in Lausanne. Source:Supplied
"It represents a phenomenal amplification not just in what he produced and how he did it, but how many people the piece touched in such a short period of time.”
“Digital technology, computers, software and the internet multiply the number of people with access to taking and viewing pictures. Once you buy the camera, there are almost no other costs. That is increasing the variety and creativity in how people take pictures, and what they do with them.”
The Simpsons episode "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind" includes a parody of Kalina's video, showing 39 years of Homer's life flash before him.
now you know what's coming when you get old.
