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    Interface

    http://gallery.photographyreview.com...sort=1&cat=500
    I'm interested in what you think of this.

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    Re: Interface

    Quote Originally Posted by Chunk
    http://gallery.photographyreview.com...sort=1&cat=500
    I'm interested in what you think of this.
    I responded in the gallery post...
    ;)
    "I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer.
    I wasn't trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time.
    I didn't think of myself as liberated, and I don't believe that I did anything important.
    I was just myself. I didn't know any other way to be, or any other way to live."
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    Hi Chunk..

    missed you. You know what your pic reminds me of and tell me if I'm right. I think it's a scene of the outside with bushes,trees, a parking lot or maybe road etc., but shot from inside a house through sheer curtains and the window screen with a telephoto lens. I'm right aren't I?
    Do I like it? I don't know why it's called " interface". Maybe if I understood that, I would. Would you mind telling some info about it? Standing alone, it doesn't move me. I'm so sorry because your other stuff does and I wouldn't hurt you for the world.
    Kit

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    Re: Hi Chunk..

    Quote Originally Posted by shesells
    missed you. You know what your pic reminds me of and tell me if I'm right. I think it's a scene of the outside with bushes,trees, a parking lot or maybe road etc., but shot from inside a house through sheer curtains and the window screen with a telephoto lens. I'm right aren't I?
    Do I like it? I don't know why it's called " interface". Maybe if I understood that, I would. Would you mind telling some info about it? Standing alone, it doesn't move me. I'm so sorry because your other stuff does and I wouldn't hurt you for the world.
    Kit
    I'm not hurt in the least, Kit. I wanted to get peoples reaction without explaining what I was thinking - at least at first. That's the way art has to stand - without an explanation attached. If this isn't doing anything for you, that's exactly what I want to know.
    This is a nightime shot of the outside of an internally lighted pop up sales tent (like they use at art fairs).

    When I saw the shadows on this glowing tent wall I liked their distribution in the display grid and their varying hardness. I liked that the viewer has no way of knowing what the reason for this distribution of vaguely discerned objects.

    It seemed an allegory for learning about things in life, where we form some basic gridwork of beliefs and ideas populated with blocks and globs of knowlege with somethings better defined than others and many areas of the grid are blank. I wouln't expect anyone to extract this same feeling from the picture but I was hoping that others might in viewing this and wondering about it come to think of some other things or at least enjoy looking at it.

    I didn't anticipate while taking the shot that the reflected light on the outside surface of the canvas would be noticable in the photo as I was only looking at the transmitted light from inside the tent and the shadows. It now seems like a gossamer interface between the solid world I know and the half seen, poorly understood world on the other side of it.

    What a bunch of hooey, eh Kit. The stuff displayed inside was motorcylist clothing - tee shirts, caps, dew rags, etc. The rectangular shadows were brackets hung on the display grid.
    Thanks for taking the time to look at it and especially respond honestly. Please always do that.

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    Re: Interface

    Quote Originally Posted by Chunk
    http://gallery.photographyreview.com...sort=1&cat=500
    I'm interested in what you think of this.
    At first, I thought it was something to do with computers ( because of the title) But then i saw your "disclosure" ( which by the way, i think it a good thing to not disclose at first, as you did when you first posted)

    I find the image interesting, softness to it, kinda "cotton-y" the grid draws your eye all around the image..
    But not really my bag, i tend to go for things that >pop< more.. Well, I'm still learning what I like - now that I think about it...
    Rachel

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    Re: Interface

    Quote Originally Posted by Clicker
    At first, I thought it was something to do with computers ( because of the title) But then i saw your "disclosure" ( which by the way, i think it a good thing to not disclose at first, as you did when you first posted)

    I find the image interesting, softness to it, kinda "cotton-y" the grid draws your eye all around the image..
    But not really my bag, i tend to go for things that >pop< more.. Well, I'm still learning what I like - now that I think about it...
    Thanks Rachel, I appreciate it.

    Just for you.
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    Re: Interface

    Quote Originally Posted by Chunk
    Thanks Rachel, I appreciate it.

    Just for you.
    Now.... that's more pleasing to me! As the other kinda had an "I'm In the Army" feel to it!

    lol.
    Rachel

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    Re: Interface

    Quote Originally Posted by Chunk
    It seemed an allegory for learning about things in life, where we form some basic gridwork of beliefs and ideas populated with blocks and globs of knowlege with somethings better defined than others and many areas of the grid are blank. I wouln't expect anyone to extract this same feeling from the picture but I was hoping that others might in viewing this and wondering about it come to think of some other things or at least enjoy looking at it.

    I didn't anticipate while taking the shot that the reflected light on the outside surface of the canvas would be noticable in the photo as I was only looking at the transmitted light from inside the tent and the shadows. It now seems like a gossamer interface between the solid world I know and the half seen, poorly understood world on the other side of it.

    What a bunch of hooey, eh Kit. The stuff displayed inside was motorcylist clothing - tee shirts, caps, dew rags, etc. The rectangular shadows were brackets hung on the display grid.
    Thanks for taking the time to look at it and especially respond honestly. Please always do that.
    hooey? no, not at all. It seems the usual for you, sensitive deep feelings.. I'm beginning to like it now

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