My graduation [from college] gift from my grandfather was a digital video camera, which certainly feeds my need to document.   I have always made movies, and now I am empowered to make them in style.   My beautiful camera was ordered after midnight on 18 November 99 and I began flooding my diary with images on 25 November 1999.   My first video clip appeared on 1 December 1999.

I had to have it!   The Canon GL-1.   My baby!   I seriously considered a Canon XL-1, but it was a bit too extravagant (and I wanted an LCD panel), and I pretended to consider a Sony VX1000, but I really liked the Canons so much better.

I adore this camera and I want to take it with me at all times.   I even painted a watercolor of it!   This camera is the best gift I have ever received, ranking just above the electric blanket my father gave me as a Christmas present when I was a pre-teen and which I used every night until I left home for college.

diary entries with audio-visual goodies beyond digital photographs:

06 November 2000
    one mp3

30 October 2000
    an animation of me in a dress

25 April 2000
    two mp3s

09 April 2000
    one mp3

25 February 2000
    a digital toy

20 February 2000
    a filled view of my 3D petal

19 February 2000
    a wireframe section of a 3D petal I constructed and a filled view of the stem

16 February 2000
    a very small animation of my face

27 January 2000
    two cartoonish illustrations

20 January 2000
    all my family trees

11 January 2000
    four watercolors, including a zoom series

10 January 2000
    my fruitbasket watercolor

04 December 1999
    a RealVideo clip called "LightPlay" with light and a musical composition of mine; also, a digital drawing of a tree and a digital photo of my favorite watercolor to date

03 December 1999
    digital drawings of produce and digital photos of my watercolors

01 December 1999
    the first movie clip in my diary

26 November 1999
    one of my watercolors along with an explanation of the themes I use in my creations

a request to readers

body part entries:

• a tour of my legs
• my feet (esp. toes)
• the top of my head
• my teeth
• my finger nails

photo intensive days:

• five images of me on 29 October 2000
• twenty-two images of me on 03 June 2000
• thirteen images while hiking on 15 April 2000
• seven images of me on 01 April 2000
• ten images of me on 28 March 2000
• twelve images while walking on 18 March 2000
• six images on 19 February 2000
• eleven images on 17 February 2000
• fifteen images on 16 February 2000
• five images on 13 February 2000
• eight images on 05 February 2000
• eleven images with a focus on my eyes on 23 January 2000
• sixteen images on 19 January 2000
• seventeen images on 12 January 2000
• myriad pictures of my sister and I on 28 December 1999
• a tour of my legs on 10 December 1999
• eleven images on 08 December 1999
• adventure walk supplement on 07 December 1999
• ten images of me on my birthday
• six images of me on 05 December 1999

my sister:

• second photo shoot
• second guest entry and first photo shoot
• first guest entry
• about her

a letter to the 3000

created Monday, 27 Sept. 1999
redesigned Thursday, 9 Dec. 1999
updated Tuesday, 7 Dec. 2000

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wonderful r e i n d a n c e names thanks to Catherine, Clark, Nancy and Matthew

gratitude to everyone who proffered a suggestion...