Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You're not peeing on my parade, Steve, you're actually validating it. Because if you've seen the same isolation on the Paris Metro, and in other similiar settings, then what I've captured has a universality - which is hardly a problem. Are there a lot of images? Yes. But then what book of, show of, collection of, documentary work of any one subject is not, when all is said and done, repetative in its overall content? ;-) As to the music, I've simply added that as an exercise. I don't find it hokie of course, but then there are many people who consider Bob Dylan a caterwauling hack, while I and many others consider him one of the handful of truly great 20th century poets, with a perfectly pleasant voice. Any way, thanks for taking the time too look. And thanks to everyone else who took all that time. B.D. ...... Original Message ....... On Wed, 17 May 2006 19:06:07 -0700 Steve Barbour <kididdoc@cox.net> wrote: >>> On 5/17/06, B. D. Colen <bdcolen@comcast.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> For anyone who's interested, and who has something like 11 min >>>> and 46 >>>> seconds to kill....there's a slide show of my T stuff up - with >>>> music - at >>>> >>>> http://www.bdcolenphoto.com/Tshow > >hi BD here's my 2 cents... > >some of the photos are stunning/wonderful but I find they are often >too very repetitious saying the same thing, and the music I find >makes the whole "show" kind of hokie sp? I feel that a few well >chosen photos seen in silence tells the tale quite well... > >if indeed it needs to be told.. > > >I am not sure that it is so surprising or unusual a thought that >people are very isolated on the subway... > >they are isolated everywhere...they can live adjacent in an >appartment building for 30 years without knowing their neighbors... > >After riding the metro in Paris many times very recently and much >earlier... entirely the same...people packed like sardines... the >same look on their faces... >actually now very often some soul on the metro tries to crack the >ice and entertain for some change with plaintive russian singing, a >trumpet serenade, a bach violin sonata against this somber >atmosphere... >actually gives me goose bumps, and this is really something to >behold with the mixed reactions and some people squirming with >discomfort... > >(Once I got my briefcase caught between a woman's legs, in a frantic >attempt to exit a jammed metro car, managed to extricate myself and >the briefcase, and leave the metro car all with nary a word nor any >real eye contact with the very nonchalant woman...) > >I am afraid if this is news, it's old and rewarmed... > >...so I am sorry to pee on your parade... but I would choose very >few of your wonderful images carefully, and keep it simple... > >Steve > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information ___ Sent from handheld device. Please forgive any typos or spelling errors.