Today I’m celebrating my fifth anniversary in the participation of dailyfratze.de. I have already blogged about my first anniversary, second anniversary and 1000. picture (with video) (and I’m kinda running out of original things to write about it). I’m very proud that I’ve reached this milestone of 5 years without missing a single photo, and I sure hope I’ll be blogging about the 10 year anniversary too. Goodness, how time flies…
I can only repeat myself in saying that I love this close-knit community and the idea behind it. It’s been a pleasure to see it evolve over the past few years and I’ve made many friends among the Fratzenschneiders1. I’m also happy about the fact that we finally have a few active non-Germans participating, among them Caity from New Zealand and Pete from Rhode Island. It would be fun to see more international folks, but I can understand zat ze chermans can be intimidating sometimes ;)
The platform dailyfratze.de itself has evolved a lot since the beginning, all thanks to its brilliant programmer and Fratzenmeister2 Michael. In the beginning of the year the website saw it’s first major redesign in launching version 2, to which I was happy to contribute some layout stuff. It’s become one of the (IMO) best and most easy to use websites on the internet. But in the end it’s all about the people anyway, and they’re the best :)
So much has happened in these five years, and the coolest thing about dailyfratze is that I can just look at a picture or a month view and know exactly what was going on back then. I’ve seen a lot of the world (Finland, Sweden, New York, Austin, San Francisco, New York again, Austria, Cardiff, New York again, Vegas, Dublin, London), I’ve made new friends and lost track of others, I’ve learned how to knit again and taught myself to crochet, I rediscovered an old friend and found love, I’ve been to many Fratzentreffen3, I taught myself a few languages, I discovered the enthralling world of brilliant TV shows, and most recently, I quit my job and started going to university. The list goes on… and somehow in between all of this, I managed to subconsciously arrange my 5 year anniversary to be on 11/11/11. ;)
Here’s what five years of me look like. Click on the “thumbnail” for full size 21MB madness.
1 “Face makers”, the users of dailyfratze
2 “Master of the face makers”, the chief face maker, programmer and initiator of the platform.
3 “Face meeting”, events in which the users of dailyfratze meet
Whoa, that is absolutely incredible! I love being a part of dailyfratze and I’m so glad that I’m becoming more active there finally. :)
Omg that is amazing and so awesome! I think I need to get in on this… that would be so awesome to have, all of your big and small milestones captured!
WHOA! 5 years is amazing to have never missed a day. Congratulations :) Keep it up. I may have to start doing self portraits so I can reach a milestone like this.
Wow, that’s a lot of photos! Good job sticking to it for so long :D 5 years is like a decade in Internet-time… Dailyfratze sounds like a great community :)
Wow, it’s amazing that you’ve managed to take a photo every single day for five years! I’ve tried my hands on dailybooth but I’m too vain to photograph myself every day. I really don’t want to world to see what I look like when I spend a day at home in my sweatpants, without coming my hair or putting make-up on.
Oh man, sooooo sweet. Thank you very, very much.
And thank you for being all the way with me / us.
Cheers,
Michael.
Wow that’s amazing that you could stick with if for so long! I don’t think I could have managed that! :)