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Ten Things About Caryn74
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Posted On: November 11 2006
By: Brittney Bush
Photo © caryn74
It's always the quiet ones. Caryn Thurman - aka Caryn74 - is so generally soft-spoken (-typed?) well-mannered that it could be easy for her to slip through the cracks in our memory. That is, if she weren't so damned smart and funny. She's also successful, cute, creative, non-kitchen-impaired, and was kind enough to answer my email. Utata, I give you: Ten Things About Caryn74.
The Utata Five
What is the camera and setup you use most often?
I use a Canon PowerShot A520 ... set up is usually whatever setting it happens to be dialed to at the time I turn it on. So basically, I am a hack.
Describe your photographic style in one word.
Haphazard
If you could only leave one photograph on Flickr, which would it be?
Oooh ... I have a lot of faves, but I think this one is my "signature" shot. And I think it would look really cool just sitting there by its little ol' self.
Name another Utatan whose work you really admire.
Ah, well not to fuel the rumors that we're really the same person or that I'm stalking her or anything, but that would have to be Jamelah. Because she's a cool, fun and clever person and she's found a way to take everything that is Jamelah and put it into every single one of her photos. She makes the images accessible, intriguing and real ... from a dog wearing a boa to a drop of water clinging to a leaf.
Your house is burning down. In the kitchen are an otter, a goose, and a cake. You only have time to save one of them. Which do you choose?
Somehow I think having an otter, goose and a cake in my kitchen has a lot to do with why my house is on fire... but I'd have to choose the cake. Because the goose and otter can run on their own. But cakes don't have legs. If you know what I mean.
The Caryn74 Five
According to your flickr profile, you split your time between two cities. How did that come to pass? Does it ever make you feel like you have split personalities?
Ah, yes. Well I wrote a bit about this in my Utata Speaks essay. Life kind of put me in this weird position where I've ended up in Virginia (I'm from Indiana) and I fell in love with a lifelong New Yorker. Add this to the fact that I work for a company based in Manhattan and this equals a lot of miles on the old odometer -- but figuratively and literally. It's a strange, but sweet dichotomy which, in many ways, allows me to have the best (and sometime the worst) of many different worlds. I think it does make me feel like I have split personalities ... where you are and how you live definitely make up a big part of the person you are at the time
You say you pursue photography "as a hobby only." What makes it such an appealing pastime to you?
I think that's really my way of saying "I'm not trying to impress you, only myself." Or something. I find it really appealing because it's a way I can channel my creative urges and feed my need to document thoughts, feelings, events and visual memories at the same time. Each part of this ebbs and flows, depending on the day or the photograph. Sometimes I am simply recording and other times I am framing a precise moment in the way I see it. In the way a picture is said to be worth a thousand words, I think photography allows me to make a statement and preserve a moment, without the frustration and misinterpretation of language.
Your food and drink set is wonderful -- especially the potato salad. (Mmm potato salad.) Are you a really good cook?
Potato salad is really underrated and I think I've been put on this earth to make sure potato salad gets the respect it deserves. I am actuallly a good cook, if I do say so myself. Unfortunately I don't often get the opportunity to cook as much as I'd like, but when I do, I love to try new techniques, tastes and ideas. Making ordinary things we take for granted totally from scratch (marshmallows, lemon meringue pie, chicken soup, beef jerky) Much like photography, food is an art ... a tasty, delicious edible art. The bonus is that cooking (and eating) is applying that creativity to all the senses. And then I take a picture of it ... so it's really out of control. This is also something I enjoy doing with my daughter, so it's really a win-win-win activity.
According to our last.fm "musical compatibility rating," you are "medium tasty." How do you feel about that?
I feel pretty, oh so pretty. I mean -- that's because of the potato salad. But why only medium? What do I need to do to be Grande Bell Tasty?
I laugh every time I look at that montage of you eating your camera. I guess that's not really a question, but I thought you should know.
Hah, I do too. I'm not sure why eating cameras hasn't taken off, but I am sure it's going to be the next big craze. Like Pop Rocks or Wilco.
[Editor's Note: OMG, I love Wilco!]
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