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if you walk down the street and things catch your eye, it is quite obvious that had another person walked there she might interpret those same things completely different, or maybe she didn't even see them because something else caught her attention.
but if it's you walking the same street, but from the other direction, do you agree with me you might look at those same things not only literally from a different angle, but also because the order in which you see those things alters your perspective?

what if from your birth to this moment in life you would have gone through the exact same things, but in a different order. how different would you be today? how much did the order of things affect your personality?

of course this is something we will never know. situations that in real life would never happen, but that do have to do with some very real issues. thinking about stuff like this to me means thinking about how one small thing can have a big effect, one gesture a huge impact. it also makes us aware that there are as many perspectives as there are human beings and that no matter how alike we may think we are and how similar our lives, we are all unique.

so i, as one person, created these three sequences and you, as another, are looking at them. the chance that you would have put these in the same order as i have is very slim. but does the order still make sense to you? can you still pic out which of the three sequences is completely random? click VOTE to find out.

and how about you? what's your perspective? and how do you alter ours? the sequencer is a new sequence of picture starting from scratch. upload your picture to change the way we look at the previous one or influence what someone else will upload next. to take part just click SEQUENCER and donate a picture and a minute of your time.

if you're interested here's some information about the practical side of this project.

because i wanted to work with images i did not know the original meaning or context of i have asked people to send me images.
what you see is a selection of images i have received over the email from friends and strangers. i have not altered the images in any way, i used all the images i received one time in each sequence and each one is used for at least a half and at most two seconds. this way all the photos get registered when watching and none get too much attention.
furthermore i did not use any music because it would influence the way you looked at an image.

so in short, all i edited was the order of the images and how long you see them. i have created a new context for the images. it was quite a challenge to try and make something coherent from a collection of random pictures, because i didn't want to make it too simple and i wanted to select purely on the associations i had.
the more i was working on this the more i became aware that by swapping just two pictures, i could change the meaning of not only those two, but also of the images to come after. this was a fascinating realization, but also a time consuming one: i wanted to think over every move i made. it also made it hard for me to restrict myself to two sequences.
finally, if you want to know just how random the random sequence is: i shuffled prints of the pictures, randomly wrote times on the back (with a total of 1 minute of course), shuffled some more and stuck with the first outcome.