I love your thoughtful, well-expressed posts. As a user (though not so effectively as you) rather than a collector of typewriters, I also appreciate your blog's subtitle. As a photographer, I love the way this post turns that still of the young Chaplin into a frame in a motion picture film.
I was very tempted to passively g+1 this post, however I paused as I reflected upon the ineffective means of absentminded 'liking' and clicktivism (1) and the rather barren circles which I roll in, which would have rendered my well meaning distribution of your post useless.
Instead I shall apportion suitable praise. You know you write well, you don't need me to puff your feathers about that, but I would like to acknowledge a stimulating and poignant piece of text when I read it, particularly when not a pretty penny has left my pocket. Perhaps it should.
I read a lot as I pass the hours till I time travel once more to the breakfast table and it's wondrous to stumble upon a piece so deliciously random (2) that when it crosses my browser it diverts my predetermined course onto something far more interesting (3) - Chaplin without a moustache? Now that's an image my young eyes have not glanced upon until now; how we take characters from the past on a certain level of accepted face value. And what an oeuvre over many fruitful years! (4)
Thanks again and I do hope you have a swell day, Sal
(1) Sarah Burnside in the Overland Journal http://overland.org.au/2014/01/of-despair-tampons-and-clicktivism (2) We know the egg came first, but may I inquire as to where you get inspiration for these portraits? (3) how stupid the cat was to be killed by curiosity - it's a delightful thing that all good writing should inspire (4) 1977 was a terrible year for movers and shakers
thanks for the comments all! Sally - a swell day was had. The idea behind them was to try and do portraiture in a small-prose way (ie to make it stand if read without the image). There's something unique about images created in the mind rather than through the eyes, maybe. Also, it's a such a unique photo - I found it in one of those 'amazing historical photos' emails that do the rounds - and you're right about the mustache. And to write some value/interpretation back to the image - more than just 'an image' amongst millions, to read into it. Something like that! cheers, rino
An inspiring photograph and an inspired written portrait. Nice one!
ReplyDeleteI love your thoughtful, well-expressed posts. As a user (though not so effectively as you) rather than a collector of typewriters, I also appreciate your blog's subtitle. As a photographer, I love the way this post turns that still of the young Chaplin into a frame in a motion picture film.
ReplyDeleteI was very tempted to passively g+1 this post, however I paused as I reflected upon the ineffective means of absentminded 'liking' and clicktivism (1) and the rather barren circles which I roll in, which would have rendered my well meaning distribution of your post useless.
ReplyDeleteInstead I shall apportion suitable praise. You know you write well, you don't need me to puff your feathers about that, but I would like to acknowledge a stimulating and poignant piece of text when I read it, particularly when not a pretty penny has left my pocket. Perhaps it should.
I read a lot as I pass the hours till I time travel once more to the breakfast table and it's wondrous to stumble upon a piece so deliciously random (2) that when it crosses my browser it diverts my predetermined course onto something far more interesting (3) - Chaplin without a moustache? Now that's an image my young eyes have not glanced upon until now; how we take characters from the past on a certain level of accepted face value. And what an oeuvre over many fruitful years! (4)
Thanks again and I do hope you have a swell day,
Sal
(1) Sarah Burnside in the Overland Journal http://overland.org.au/2014/01/of-despair-tampons-and-clicktivism
(2) We know the egg came first, but may I inquire as to where you get inspiration for these portraits?
(3) how stupid the cat was to be killed by curiosity - it's a delightful thing that all good writing should inspire
(4) 1977 was a terrible year for movers and shakers
thanks for the comments all!
ReplyDeleteSally - a swell day was had. The idea behind them was to try and do portraiture in a small-prose way (ie to make it stand if read without the image). There's something unique about images created in the mind rather than through the eyes, maybe. Also, it's a such a unique photo - I found it in one of those 'amazing historical photos' emails that do the rounds - and you're right about the mustache. And to write some value/interpretation back to the image - more than just 'an image' amongst millions, to read into it. Something like that! cheers, rino