Our themes were Isolation, Magic, and Startling.
If you'd like, you're welcome to guess who took which shots. We each took one shot for each theme.
Isolation:
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| 4 layers of isolation |
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| ...In the crowd |
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| Downtown Paris 6pm |
Startling:
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| Shh!! |
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| Reach out and touch |
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| Reaching 4 startling |
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| Music shop magic |
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| Praying for magic |
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| Escher's haunted cat (if you stare long enough, the ghost appears.. So try not to stare!) PS it turns out the specter only appears if you enlarge the image and then stare at it. So you should all be safe! : j |
I loved Shhh. And yes, I feel isolation most in a crowd...isn't that strange? But I know many people who feel terribly lonely when they are surrounded by people. It's almost as if you don't exist.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous shots! I'm not going to guess. I'm pretty bad at guessing. But you could tell me, yeah? :)
ReplyDeleteAloha Annie! Not that strange, I don't think. Just because you're in the midst of a lot people doesn't mean you're connected to them in any way... And being blatantly disconnected from so many people is bound to bring a sense of isolation. I guess so long as we have people we do connect with, we aren't completely isolated. : D
ReplyDeleteOh and by the way, it would seem that Khnoum's shots are the ones that spoke to you. : j
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Hello miss Bell. Why certainly, I could tell you. : j
Congrats on string bridge, I saw that your chart rush was a success and I've been hearing about you novel all across the blogosphere!
My favorites are: 4 layers of isolation, reach out and touch, and praying for magic. But I like them all. ...In the crowd is sticking in my brain.
ReplyDeleteI've missed the photos!
Ha, glad you enjoyed them Theresa... Say, did you see the ghost?
ReplyDeleteLove this collection of images with their labels. I'm looking for another layer of isolation. I can only count 3.
ReplyDeleteAloha Kass! Stretching, I can find six layers... We'd have to ask J¨urgen if we wanted to get a definitive answer. : j
ReplyDeleteI don't see the ghost. It's not even 5:30 in the morning, so I don't think my eyes can focus properly.
ReplyDeleteYeah sorry about that... Only Khnoum saw it I think. The thing is that that isn't just a picture, it's an animated gif. And it would seem that some browser settings block them in slideshows. It works on both of my puters but not with Khnoum's.
ReplyDeleteTry this link (http://tinyurl.com/btjvtdc) and waiting 20 seconds after it's opened.
But really it isn't worth it: it was just that a real cat's head appeared.
5.30! Yikes!
I checked out the link. Yikes! How does that work? And I thought Escher was a genius before...
ReplyDelete*To be read in a deep gravelly fake Scottish accent*
ReplyDeleteEhrm, when people say that great artists truly capture the essence of their models.... Well... In some case that's more literally true than in others. ; j
Escher had an eldritch crystal monocle and when he used it to sketch, he would trap an infinitesimally tiny part of the model's souls in his creations- not unlike taking a cell sample from a person really.
Well, through my plumbings of the deep dark chasms of the internet, I found an arcane ritual by which to bring this soul shard back to the forefront, back to the light.
And the name of that ritual is: phoptoshop!
Dunh dunh DUNH!
*End the accent here*
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It's a gif animation, so essentially, it's just like making a cartoon. I just needed to make each frame (a mere twenty) and compile them in a gif animator.
The real cat I used was a grizzled old cat I took pictures of in a castle town I visited during my last road trip in the south of France. : j
Thanks for having a look at it! : j