Tuesday, July 7, 2015

TED Tuesday: Steven Addis: A Father-Daughter Bond, One Photo At A Time

"So I want to encourage everyone today to get in the shot, and don't hesitate to go up to someone and ask,'Will you take our picture?'"







Good Morning Folks,

In this attention deficit age where kids are too busy on their cell phones to even look up at their parents at dinner, here is an activity you can do together with your phone and selfies, that will have lasting meaning and help build stronger parent/child bonds.

Todays TEDTalk tells a story that reminds me of last year's Academy-Award nominee and winner Boyhood.

It's of a father, who once took a picture with his daughter on a corner in NYC and decided to replicate it the next year. This goes on for fifteen years and he speaks about how meaningful this tradition became to both himself and his daughter. Steven Addis is a photographer, film buff and writer. He started an agency, Addis Creston, that creates “positive change by working with clients to market meaningful products and to improve their social benefit”. The main point the presenter is making about the topic is that a picture really can mean a thousand words. He literally showed fifteen images and spoke about each one as an individual story to support the point he was making. 

What made him choose this talk were the words “father-daughter bond” in the title?

"It made me thing about my father and our relationship, so I was interested in someone else’s. The presenter has impacted the way I view his topic by in a sense where I now wish my father had done the same thing with me. One idea I will take away from the talk is this idea of how much a series of reoccurring photos can mean and how I would like to continue this tradition when I have children."

So these photos are far more than proxies for a single moment, or even a specific trip. They're also ways for us to freeze time for one week in October and reflect on our times and how we change from year to year, and not just physically, but in every way. Because while we take the same photo, our perspectives change, and she reaches new milestones, and I get to see life through her eyes, and how she interacts with and sees everything. This very focused time we get to spend together is something we cherish and anticipate the entire year.

Concludes Addis,"So I want to share the idea of taking an active role in consciously creating memories. I don't know about you, but aside from these 15 shots, I'm not in many of the family photos. I'm always the one taking the picture. So I want to encourage everyone today to get in the shot, and don't hesitate to go up to someone and ask, 'Will you take our picture?''

Now... Steven Addis presents his TED Talk “A father-daughter bond, one photo at a time”. 


As INC recently concluded, 'you can spend $250,000 and three years of your life to get an MBA or spend a a few moments watching these videos. Your choice."

Have a GREAT Day,



Mitchell D. Weiner
Chief Happiness Officer
  


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