The whole project began out of spite. I had just purchased a digital camera...My girlfriend asked me why I bought it and what I was going to do with it. I explained. She asked me if I was "going to use it every day", with sarcastic inflection. I told her yes, and resolved to do so. The project began there.And for eight years he's been taking his own picture every day--except for when he was in Antarctica.
Didn't Kubrick try to do something like this with Haley Joel Osment?