Every day more and more people—from all over the world—are discovering the magic of Jamie Livingston’s Photo of-the-Day site. "I am constantly amazed at how much thought people are putting into writing about Jamie Livingston’s work. It’s not the same thing over and over. There are all these different interpretations. Some are similar but they’re not the same," Hugh tells me in a state of over-the-top gratification that Jamie’s work is getting out there and being appreciated by so many people.

Here’s something he found on a site called A Little Bit of This, A Little Bit of That:

I was intrigued by the title of an article on www.Foxnews.com the other day.  The title read “Daily Polaroids Detail Last 18 Years of NYC Man’s Life.”  I bet it got your attention too!  It was about a man named Jamie Livingston who took at least one photo of his life, every day, for 18 years.  It started as a College Project and it continued on til the day he died.  Oddly enough, he died at the age of 41 on the same day of his birth.  He passed away in 1997, and yes there is a picture taken on the very last day of his life.

I actually spent a lot of time going through them.  His friends have always wanted to do this for him, as a memorial and to share his life with others.  I think they did an absolutely amazing job.  They also put all of the pictures up at Bard College, which is the college where Livingston started the project.  It filled a wall 120 feet by 8 feet.

It’s erie to go and look at the pictures.  Towards the end you can really see the decline in his health.  Apparently he lost his battle with cancer.  It’s so sad to think that a man with such a interesting outlook on life, had to die so young.

The Jamie Livingston site continues to attract traffic from around the world. Hugh noticed that there’s been a lot of traffic coming from Brazil. It’s also being picked up in China. Hugh has no idea how many people have been to the site. But at times it is receiving something like 150 hits per second. That means 150 pages or pictures are being requested per second.

That’s an awful lot.

If you’d like a partial list of many blogs that have picked up Jamie’s site go to Ice Rocket for an index.

Thankfully the site is at a hosting company called iphouse that has a lot of bandwidth.  Hugh and I would like to take a moment to thank two men in Minneapolis we’ve never met. But they are real behind-the-scenes heroes and we are filled with gratitude.

Vizzini and Bil contacted Hugh after the Jamie site went up on Mental Floss all those days ago.

They reached out in a very generous and kind-hearted way—and offered Hugh much needed bandwidth—and now he’s part of the Jamie story.

Thanks to Bil MacLeslie, CEO of iphouse.com, for bandwidth/collocation and Vizzini Sampere for Servers and System Administration for all that you’ve done.
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Vizzini and Bil are willing to continue donating the server, disk space, and their time to administrate the server for the site as long as we arrange bandwidth with Bil/iphouse.

"The particular machine I have you on is a online backup and development machine I have just in case one of my other servers dies or a site needs some additional capacity," Vizzini wrote to Hugh in an email.

Vizzini and Bill at iphouse.com: Thank you from all of us.

Photo of the Day by Jamie Livingston of Hugh Crawford on 6-11-88 (Hugh still has that shirt. We call it his Hawaiian Punch shirt.)