A couple weeks ago I was bothered by how busy I’ve been and the fact that it has prevented me from properly picking up a camera, so I set a new goal: take a photo a day, with my cell phone. I’m calling it the Daily Interestingness.

It may be a bit presumptive of me to assume all of my photos will indeed be interesting, but the project has done a few things: it makes me think about photography again, it has put me on the look out for quirky objects and textures, and it’s a hell of a lot of fun.

One of best things of all is the use of a crappy cell phone camera, in my case: the iPhone. The constraints enforced by these inferior cameras make me think differently. I’m a firm believer that the right constraints will help you create better as opposed to having all of the options in the world available.

I want you to play too.
All of my photos get put in a set (linked above) on flickr and tagged with “daily interestingness”. I’d encourage you to do the same and we can all play along.

The Rules:

1. The photo has to be taken with your cell phone
   (or some sort of similarly inferior image-capture device.)
2. Any editing has to be done in-camera or in-phone with available software. I use Camerabag (iTunes link) for the iPhone, primarily.
   (You don’t have to edit them in any way if you don’t want to, but it’s fun.)
3. Upload them to flickr or VIRB° or whatever and tag them “daily interestingness”.
   (don’t forget the quotes or flickr will split it into two separate tags.)
4. Share via Brightkite or Posterous or something like that.
5. Have fun.

If you end up trying this out, or if you’re already doing something similar, post a link in the comments for us to check out.