Had an idea to while away the long winter evenings…
Create a ficticious Flickr account under a pseudonym. Post some weirdly crap photos, really hideously photoshopped and pointless pictures of scanned objects. Maybe post some almost entirely red photos to ‘The Red Makes It’ pool. Post news agency images. Post scans of artwork to the ‘Scanned Objects’ pool. You get the idea?
Then use my pseudonym to start posting horribly critical comments on my own photos.
Trouble is, my pseudonym might start spilling over into Real Life. The voice in my head telling me I’m shit. Call that prose, cos I don’t? You’ll never get on that train – you know why? THE OTHER PASSENGERS DON’T WANT YOU ON IT.
Then my pseudonym would start making more contacts and friends on Flickr than me. Even some of my real friends might prefer his pictures and his taste in music.
And then I could delete my own profile for good.