Noah Kalina ages 12.5 years in 7.5 minutes

By Deborah Netburn

Sept. 8, 2012 12 AM PT

&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;On Jan. 11, 2000 -- when he was 19 years old -- Noah Kalina embarked on a photography project he calls “Everyday.”&amp;nbsp;The idea, which has since been imitated hundreds, if not thousands of times, was to take a picture of himself everyday, into perpetuity.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;In 2006 he uploaded a time lapse video that encompassed six years of those daily photos to Vimeo and &amp;lt;runtime:topic id=”ORCRP00000211004”&amp;gt;YouTube&amp;lt;/runtime:topic&amp;gt;, and it became one of the first truly viral videos on the Internet, spawning hundreds of imitators, and even inspiring a “Simpsons” parody.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;This week, he uploaded a sequel to that initial video that spans a mind-boggling 12.5 years.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;In the six years since the Internet last encountered Kalina, he has grown a beard and become a professional photographer. I think his eyes look sadder.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;He was hired to shoot the wedding of &amp;lt;runtime:topic id=”PEBSL000091”&amp;gt;Mark Zuckerberg&amp;lt;/runtime:topic&amp;gt; and &amp;lt;runtime:topic id=”PECLB00014819”&amp;gt;Priscilla Chan&amp;lt;/runtime:topic&amp;gt; this year and is responsible for the beautifully lit &amp;lt;a href=”https://noahkalina.com/73#48”&amp;gt;shot&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; of the newly married couple in the garden that Zuckerberg posted to his Facebook page immediately after the event.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Kalina’s latest video includes daily photos of himself taken from Jan. 11, 2000 through June 30, 2012. In a post on his &amp;lt;a href=”https://blog.noahkalina.com/post/27336168930/everyday-grid-4514-photos-jan-11-2000-june-30”&amp;gt;website&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;, Kalina says the video includes 10 frames per second. A month of his life whizzes by every three seconds.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;The Everyday project clearly resonates with lots of people. The &amp;lt;a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B26asyGKDo”&amp;gt;original video&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; has been viewed nearly 24 million times, and this sequel, posted Tuesday, has been viewed more than 1.5 million times.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;YouTube trends manager Kevin Allocca notes that although the time-lapse photo-a-day video has become ubiquitous on YouTube, Kalina was one of the first to do it, and few people have managed to collect images of themselves over more than a decade.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;ALSO:&amp;lt;/strong&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=”http://arstechnica1.netblogpro.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-curiosity-leaves-its-mark-on-mars-tracks-visible-from-space-20120906,0,6192963.story”&amp;gt;Curiosity’s Martian tracks photographed from space&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=”http://arstechnica1.netblogpro.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-cat-video-festival-20120831,0,2290329.story”&amp;gt;Missed the first cat video festival? No worries, watch at home&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=”http://arstechnica1.netblogpro.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-google-700-star-trek-20120907,0,1486510.story”&amp;gt;Google celebrates ‘Star Trek’ as Google shares live long and prosper&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Follow Deborah Netburn on &amp;lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/#!/DeborahNetburn”&amp;gt;Twitter&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; or &amp;lt;a href=”https://plus.google.com/u/0/109675776633752908527/posts”&amp;gt;Google+&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;

Noah Kalina ages 12.5 years in 7.5 minutes

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