On January 1, 2010, my boyfriend made a New Year’s resolution to take a picture every waking hour for the whole year.

We live together.

For the past 364 days, the iPhone “Harp” alarm has filled our ears every hour that we are together. It’s become like white noise to me:

He broadcasts the photos online at EveryHourOnTheHour.com as as sort of “eff you” to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Tumblr… all the social networking sites he has shunned since the demise of Classmates.com disillusioned him so many years ago. Robert Cannon, the anti-social networking photographer with a mission.

At first, I was intrigued, yet hesitant. My halfhearted complaints went something like: “But what if we’re having a romantic moment together? … What if you’re in a job interview? … What if I’m in the shower and you pop your head in? I can’t be naked on the Internet. I just can’t.”

It only took about 8 months for an accidental shower photo to make it on the Every Hour website, and by that point, I had become the project’s wingman. Accomplice to taking photos at even the most inappropriate times. The shower photo made TV news when our local ABC affiliate, KABC 7, visited our apartment to do a story on the project as it dwindles down to its last days. Check it out (will post ad-free version soon):