“I find myself thinking of a checklist Wozniak wrote a few years ago describing how to become a genius. His advice was straightforward yet strangely terrible: You must clarify your goals, gain knowledge through spaced repetition, preserve health, work steadily, minimize stress, refuse interruption, and never resist sleep when tired. This should lead to radically improved intelligence and creativity. The only cost: turning your back on every convention of social life.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.”
I agree with Debbie. I've seen you more serious than this. On the other hand, you don't look 'relaxed'. I think that's what people are noticing -- 'unrelaxed', possibly guarding against expression at all?
Posted by Mom at 7:49 am on Jul. 17, 2006
Here's something that I've learned from posting self-portraits on Flickr: other people always see different things than we do in photos of ourselves.
Looking serious isn't a bad thing, and it isn't a typical facial expression for you.
I think that the one from Rachael was the most eye-opening -- that this isn't a typical expression for me, and maybe that's why I and others don't recognize it or know exactly how to process it.
Thanks!
Posted by Travis Smith at 9:58 am on Jul. 17, 2006
Um, it could be so many things; the lighting, the angle, the framing. I don't think you look serious or other wise. I think it's a nice shot!
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