''Everyday'' is an ongoing art project by American photographer

Noah Kalina Noah Kalina (born July 4, 1980) is an American art photographer. Much of Kalina's work focuses on the passage of time including his well-known project '' Everyday'' which shows the aging of a human. His photographs have appeared in ''The New York ...

that gained widespread attention when the first segment of the project, ''Noah takes a photo of himself every day for 6 years'' also titled ''everyday'', was released in 2006 and became a

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. The first ''everyday'' video features a fast montage of thousands of pictures of Kalina spanning a period of six years all played sequentially as a

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. Subsequent releases have followed this format and viewers are able to watch Kalina age.

First release and response

6 Years

Kalina began taking a photo of himself every day starting on January 11, 2000, at age 19. The video ''Everyday'' shows the photos chronologically, six per second, with an original piano score by Kalina's former girlfriend Carly Comando. Throughout the compilation, Kalina's face remains emotionless in the center of the frame. Kalina uploaded the video to

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on August 8, 2006, and

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on August 27, 2006. Kalina had originally intended ''Everyday'' to be a photo project, but was encouraged to make a film after seeing a video by Ahree Lee, which consisted of time-lapse portraits of the artist. He compiled his photographs into a video. , the video had more than 25 million hits on YouTube. In a ''

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'' article, William A. Ewing, director of the

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, was quoted as saying, "Noah's video 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. There is nothing comparable in the history of photography." ''Everyday'' was featured on an episode of VH1's '' Web Junk 20'' and on commercials for Time Warner Cable's Roadrunner service. ''

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" includes an adaptation of Kalina's video; in that scene, 39 years of Homer Simpson's life flash before him while Comando's score for ''Everyday'' is playing. The

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(NBA) used Comando's score for ''Everyday'' during the "Where Amazing Happens" ad campaign from 2007 to

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. In December 2006, because of the notoriety of ''Everyday'', VH1 commissioned Kalina to take photographs of himself in the same pose used in ''Everyday'', but alongside various celebrities, including

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and "Weird Al" Yankovic. The photographs were taken backstage at the VH1 Big in '06 Awards. In the televised ceremony, several of the pictures were shown before and after commercial breaks.

Subsequent releases

12 Years

On July 16, 2012, Kalina announced an extension to his ''Everyday'' video on his website. The extended video, released to YouTube on September 4, shows 12 years, 5 months of his self-portraits with a run time of 7:41 (10 frames per second—1 month every 3 seconds). In 2016, the project was described in academic work as having "archival persistence".

20 Years

On January 14, 2020, Kalina released to YouTube "Noah takes a photo of himself every day for 20 years" showing 20 years of his self-portraits with a run time of 8:17 (15 frames per second—1 month every 2 seconds).

21 Years

On July 13, 2021, Kalina released the video "7777 Days" that shows him aging 21 years over the course of 2 minutes. For this video, data scientist, neuroscientist, and programmer Michael Notter used artificial intelligence to align and blend Kalina's face.

References

External links

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Kalina's official homepage on the Everyday Project
{{DEFAULTSORT:Everyday Viral videos Self-portraits 2006 YouTube videos