Mario Cacciottolo has crafted the wonderful web site Someone Once Told Me. In his words:
A new one every day
Each person writes a message
Something that someone once told them
Somehow I found the site and then spent a Sunday going through the years of history. There’s folklore, advice, parting comments, casual observations. If you saunter through the site you’ll find a diverse selection of humans, each of them with a memorable statement.
When I first saw the site I thought, “I’ve got to do this!” and sent an email to Mario asking if, by chance, he’d be in Italy at the same time I would be. This may sound far fetched, as London and Italy are not exactly close. However, Mario’s photos on the site included India, he’d just returned from a trip to Los Angeles and had a trip planned to southern France. Malta native Mario does quite a bit of traveling. It turned out he would not. Mario invited me to take my own photograph for submission. The result is here. (Yes, I could put the image here. You really should visit SOTM.) Mario suggested, “If you can send over any audio or video then that would be brilliant. I haven’t had any video submitted, would you like to do that?”
You bet. Never mind that I have no video editing software and the video function on my still camera seemed to be broken. No matter. With randonneur like determination I identified and resolved all the issues. Here’s the result:
Certainly someone once told you something memorable. Photograph yourself with a sign and send the result to Mario through the Your SOTM page. It’s a good time.
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