We’ve seen your vacation albums.
You and your brother/mother/significant other, squinting in the sun and staring glumly at the camera, pleading for it to go off.
What if we told you that there’s a magic word that will make any posed photograph leap off the page? Four magic letters that will bring a smile to the most tightly pursed lips?
“Jump”
Yes, jump. Don’t believe us? Check out the Jump Project for proof: gleaming mid-air grins from Vegas to New Zealand, Moscow to the Moab.
The project’s curator puts it simply, “It’s been a long time since any of us jumped for anything… jumping makes people smile.”
Jump Project Gallery
www.fakefunk.com/gallery2/main.php
[via reader Adam Varga]
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