This weeks post is based on the artist Jamie Jessett's photo project :
"Back to the Future". http://vimeo.com/28051776
Its so interesting to go back and reflect on your childhood and compare it to the person you are today. We recommend everybody tries this. It's so much fun! Enjoy!
Evandro Hoepers
Our childhood is awesome, the best time of our life, the time which our most concern is what kind of play I will do now. When I was a kid I used to play all day long in the backyard with my friends or alone, my imagination could take me everywhere at any time and I could feel every thing. I could change my name and be the Bruce Willis in Die Hard driving my little cars between gorges, jump rivers and blast every thing and it was so good. Each play and each imagination I have done I grow and develop my mind.THE BACK TO THE FUTURE made I feel my childhood again, sometimes we need to see some pictures from the past and back to our roots.
Carlos Ferreira
It’s funny, because today you have a lot of things to do, and these things ‘steal’ all your time, and you forget or don’t have time to remember about your childhood, or how that time was happy and important to you, and all the history behind your life. When you find some old pictures or photographs, sometimes you stop your present life and start thinking about that picture, that moment and how those moments were good, bad, sad or happy. In this case, my old photograph can tell me a lot of ‘information’, because always I was a happy, hungry and destructive child. In my teenage years I continued the same with the ‘little boy’ inside, but taller outside. Today, I’m 25 years old, a lot of things changed, I grew up and now I can't be a child all the time, or play jokes like one, but I don't miss my child 'inside' me. This project was good, because I can revive some 'forgotten memories', and play with these moments, and today I know how these moments have been amazing and helped me to be who I am and try to make a good future for me.
Kitty Wu
When I recalled the
memory of my childhood, it seems that I never focused on the reality. I had a
lot of imagination in my mind and I lived in that.
I think I was every teacher's problem. I seldom handed out the homework and listened to the
class. I was late for school almost everyday. My score of tests was always
terrible. No matter how many times teachers warned me or punished me, I never
changed. But that doesn’t mean I was a bad girl. I was a quiet, shy and sweet
girl. I was just stubborn. I questioned the order and refused to do the thing I
didn’t totally understand. Because there were too many things I didn’t
understand when I was a child, I chose to do things in my own way, the way I
could understand but not for others.
Fortunately,
I
have a great mom who always trusts me, even though she couldn’t
understand what
I was doing. For example, she helped me skipping the class if I didn’t
want to go.
She let me use markers to draw on every furniture and wall. She let me
play
outside all day without curfew. Because of that, I am not afraid of
making
mistake. I like challenge, solving problems and creating new idea. I
think that is the important part causes the person who I am now.
Claire Ji Su Son
My childhood was full of happiness. My parents are really generous, kind and nice. We weren’t rich but I feel happiness is more than being rich. I was a little tomboy girl, and always received full parent’s love. However, when my brother was born, many things changed. I was five years old at that time, and I needed more love and attention from my parents. They still gave me love and attention but I didn’t know how, so I hated my brother a lot, and my parents were worried about that.
In Korea, there’s a notion of preferring a son to a daughter and my parents didn’t prefer son to daughter, but my grandparents did prefer son. They discriminated against daughters, and it was really hurtful for me. I hated my brother more than before when my grandparents acted like that. It was really terrible because I always felt like I’m not one of my family. I was childish and immature. I had my own room, separated from my parents very fast. So I’m a more independent person. Now, I can do everything own myself. It’s really good for me I think.
Later, I knew that was just my stereotype. My grandparents also love me a lot and they just hope me to be more independent. That’s why they were very strict to me. Now, they are very soft and warm, and my brother and I also have a good relationship. I was immature but I am not immature anymore. I hated my brother, not anymore. I love my brother, my family so much. It was so nice time. We spent lovely time and I thought about my past, my childhood. I feel many things … beautiful time. Thank you.
John Kim
Actually, I can’t remember my childhood. According to my mother’s explanation, I was an active child. It’s my good memories. As I see my past picture, I can remember. So, my past affects me in the present. I have been changing, naturally, so I can guess that. As a result, my character hasn’t changed since. Of course, my appearance has changed a little. I made this project as concept of naked body. In This picture, I was eight months. I was in a bath. I looked clam. At that time I might have prepared a shower. My father took the picture of me. It was so interesting because, I could go back to the past even if it was not real. I would try to take off my clothing but, I couldn’t take off my pants because that would be terrible. This picture was taken by my friend, Faton. We were so tired trying to get it, because my bathroom was so small. On the other hand, I grew too much compared with when I was a baby. To make the position and composition was so difficult. I felt I have been changing many things of me. When I was in the bath, it seemed like going back to the baby, who was innocent. Obviously, It must have been great challenge for me.
Raquel Komura
I can start describing my childhood with three words: home,
books and church. Since I was a kid, I haven’t paid much attention to the world
outside my door. I used to live in a dangerous neighborhood, so my parents
wouldn’t allow me to go very far. I didn’t have permission to go out and
explore the streets by myself, so, as a result, I became an introspective
child. While the other kids spent their afternoon playing outside the house, I
stayed at home, reading wonderful stories from all over the world. On Wednesdays,
Fridays and Sundays, me and my family used to go to church, even though I
didn’t know exactly why. My parent’s religion had an important impact in my
life, because I was taught how to distinguish right from wrong in a very
extreme one-sided way (only to learn how to deconstruct it a few years later,
through a lot of reading) and that was a part of me for a long time.
I guess I started to grow up in the moment I figured out how
to think by myself. Parents will always want the best for their children, but
it doesn’t mean that they actually know what that is. It’s up to me to choose
my own way.
This project reminded me of that. I had a very sweet, dreamy
and secure childhood. Maybe I have been living in an imaginary protective
bubble. It’s time to get out.
Andrey Moreira
Let’s say I was an active child. A very small kid that was always jumping around with his bike, paying soccer with no shoes at all, getting into house constructions with his cousin and messing up with everything inside, trying to build bridges with rocks over the little muddy streams at the farm and climbing the saddle of the horses, because his height just didn’t help and the damn horses were very big! Of course, doing all this things means coming back home with a lot of bruises, and facing an angry mother. Besides that, childhood was full of inside activities too. Man, I could build everything with a box of LEGO! And how exciting was watching the heroes in the TV cartoons and I really helped Goku to do the Genkidama (Dragon Ball’s fans will understand it). A lot of things in my childhood made me what I am now. The weekends spent with my father in the farm made me crazy about the country side. The nights when my father used to gather with his best friends and play their guitars developed in me a deep interest in music. Most the best friends of my childhood are still the people some of the people I’m closest today. Certainly a lot of things have changed, but the delightful memories of a time without worries are still clear in my mind, and that still makes me feel good.
Hyongku Kang
I was a very good boy, our family was not rich in my childhood,
but I was happy. My brother and I played mini basketball in the house.At that
time, I liked tae kwon do so I learned it and liked soccer too. I ate food that
I wanted when I was young so my mother worried about me .Sometimes I fought with my brother.
As brother and I wanted to use computer but there was no computer in my house
My mother always said. “you are a good boy”, “I love you”, so I was proud of myself; I think this affected
me now , as I am positive , and well grown , so I thank my mother very much.
Now my appearance has changed and mow I know many more things in the world than
when I was young and I have to have responsibility now that I am an adult.
Boyoung Kim
I remember my childhood was both happy and terrible. When I was a baby, my parents didn’t have a lot of money. But I was happy. I think that real happiness isn’t about money, but people’s feelings and experiences. My family was happy. Though we only had one room in my house, we didn’t feel hungry and cold. Because we shared everything, food, money, etc. Also, we slept together in a room. But, it caused one mistake. I became shy and weak. So my father told me “you should learn some sports or exercises”. After, I learned Tae-kwon-do for 2 years. Now, we are living in an apartment which has three rooms and we are warm in the house. Also, I’m not shy and weak anymore. I became a strong man for sports. I have more confidence than before. Although I am far away from my family now, I still have strong feelings from my parents’ love.