Imperfect Your Memories Austin Kleon

Imperfect your memories - Austin Kleon #

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Leaving in the stuff you’re inclined to crop out.

You could write a long essay unpacking the many implied layers of this phrase,  “ easily perfect all of your memories,” but I really want to bring up something that my friend the photographer Clayton Cubitt taught me: whatever you think is boring or ugly in your photograph today might quite possibly be the most interesting thing about the photograph in the future.

Knowing this, I am inclined to go the other direction and do my best to imperfect my memories: leave in all the things I’m supposed to crop out. (This is why I leave in all the dumb, mundane crap I do every day in my logbook: what I have for lunch, meetings, what I watched on TV, etc.)

I try to remember that I have no idea today exactly what I’ll want to remember about today in the future.