As of yesterday I opted to try a little mobile blogging experiment. The whole typing little mobile blog posts got old after one or two entries and I was left feeling underwhelmed by the desire to patter out micro-statements for that instant-post gratification. In fact it seemed I was posting for the sake of posting.

Hence the lack of mobile updates.

On the flip side, there was a lost opportunity if this pesky device to which I’ve been tethered, complete with a full service data plan, could not be put to use in some tertiary function beyond the phone and email. Not only that, but unlike my “proper” camera, I carry the crappy little Blackberry camera nearly everywhere now and after just a couple months (despite grumblings) have captured a couple hundred pics into the bowels of its memory cards.

Add to the equation that one might consider an artistic element to the grainy, mobile photos that is something akin to a (now defunct) Polaroid image. One would never take “real” pictures with an instant camera, but there was always something candid and immediate about the act of Polaroid photos. Mobile pictures, never in my life to replace a good piece of glass and a practiced shutter finger, might just need to be viewed in a different light: not a replacement, but a supplement and medium in and of themselves — “grabs”.

In as much, I took a half hour or so and strung together a few elements of technology — a Blackberry with unlimited data upload, a mobile application to push pics to an online Flickr account, a Flickr account, a blog, and a blog plug-in that pulls the feed of new pictures into a little sidebar display — and I’ve submitted to a form of photography I’d been resisting on no valid grounds for a couple of years: moblog photos or mobile grabs.

I would, of course and as always, appreciate any input you might have on the experiment. I’ve been pushing a lot of new grabs to it in the last twenty-four hours, but don’t expect that frequency to be maintained. It’s the novelty at the moment. The newness. And we will see how the experiment endears me for the next few weeks before I make any formal judgments.