#therandompicofthenight
12.27.2014
One late evening on 12.14.2014, I went on my iPhone and Google'd an image in black and white using what my thoughts that had been running around my brain and something I had watched that evening on TV. I found an interesting random picture of two kids in the 80's smiling next to a personal computer of the times. I downloaded to my iPhone and decided to post it to my Facebook wall using the hashtag #therandompicofthenight. (one like on Facebook).
At the time I didn't think much of it. It was just a random thing to do... maybe I was just bored and/or wanted just to turn off my brain that late at night. My brain has been known to overthink things and bring me to that depressing temporary state that if I let it to decide to pull me in, it is not a good place to be for me.
The following day I figured why not, go ahead and post another picture. You have 700+ friends on your Facebook account, and not all in the same time zone... someone should notice that you have posted round two of #therandompicofthenight. And so I did, again inspired by something that day, and my active brain pulled feelings, thoughts and actions to come up with some random key words to Google image an image in black and white that relates to the way you feel at that exact moment. The words I used was "DJ", "French", "black and white". This is the picture that I posted on Facebook that next evening. ( cero likes on Facebook).
I wake up on the morning of 12.16.2014 log on to my Facebook account to see how many likes my cool black and white "French DJ" frozen in time party picture gives me... just to find cero likes. My reaction to that was like... what the hell either I am just invisible, or am I just one that is not cool enough? Theory one is: I am just invisible!
That evening I wanted to prove that my invisibility was my current existence on social media. Therefore searching from my feelings that exact time and moment, a beautiful picture of an standstill moment in history and time; one of those moments that you look at a picture and you almost feel that at the exact moment when the picture was taken. You feel like you are there taking the picture, and you almost feel the energy and the experiences that the people in the shot are just having the time of their lives. That kind of picture I posted. (four likes on Facebook).
Even though that is a 400% increase in likes, I still felt invisible. This made me realize something. Why since 2007 we are judging our popularity on how much someone "likes" something. People have tried to copy this and the closest one that has succeeded to this is Twitter. But yes Facebook has made us the new generation, a generation that is judged by fakeness. We fake our true lives and feelings on social media. This is a constant struggle for me. Do I want to follow the norm and be fake to people to like me Or do I get sucked into this "psychiatric" state that we connected humans are experiencing. Oh it felt good the 400% increase in likes! But who cares if you are noticing that I am just being truly honest with my feelings at that specific time and just posting it out there for everyone to see.
On 12.22.2014 a beautiful Sunday evening late as usual I posted the following picture.
The keywords that inspired this picture were "light", "black and white". I was feeling good that evening. My brain was on a high because of the excitement that we, my Architect/Designer friend and, I sold his two lamp pieces called "La Lámpara Quiróptera".
Selling those two wonderful pieces that afternoon guaranteed that my great friend would finally have the courage to the things he really wants and dreams of every day. The joy of knowing that I had the opportunity to give courage in someone life in my lifetime is priceless to me, as well to know that I have contributed to his possible success, it just the best feeling ever. I went ahead and posted this picture.
A day later I asked him if he had seen my picture. He stated yes and that he liked it. I asked him have you seen the previous pictured, and followed to say those are some great pictures... but you are using the wrong platform. That made me think. No it is not the wrong platform because my intention have always been just to post a random picture to my Facebook Wall just for people to see my honest me. Sadly he didn't see my intentions. But he was right to state I was using the wrong platform because it would be interesting to see people of of my network reacting to my personal social media honesty and other people outside me network can see this as well.
This is how #therandompicofthenight started.
Here is my blog of #therandompicofthenight. It is random pictures found by me late at night on Google Images using random key words that explain how I feel that exact moment. I believe that pictures read louder than words. Therefore my theory is that I am not invisible, and yes cool, and you will see my feelings without me having to explain them in too much detail. I will continue to post my pictures on Facebook, share them with you, track my likes, and tell you just a bit and you can decide the rest for yourself. Enjoy my honesty :)
S. Kruger 12.27.2014
