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08/29/2007 03:43:18 PM |
from the blurgeois pedagogues thread:
another purpose of blur: it helps us to forget.
We forget who we are. We forget where we were going. We forget that we were looking at a photograph. We forget if ducks live in the air or in the water. We forget if water is blue or green. We forget that we can't see air. It's a pleasant sort of forgetting, like stepping off a porch into a rubber tambourine, wondering why rain goes up. Sometimes we don't want to drink the green tea, we want to swim in the green tea. Blur helps us do that. |
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08/05/2007 06:56:36 AM |
| This, for me, is one of those dreams that morphs into a nightmare, and this is the point of morphing. It's been pleasant until now, if not a little disjointed, with abrupt changes in place and lack of a true linear narrative, and then suddenly - BAM! Time to wake up . . . |
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08/03/2007 07:30:24 PM |
| Don't know why - but this is very moving to me. The motion... the colors... amazing. |
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08/03/2007 04:58:13 AM |
| Great feeling of life and movement. Cool shot! |
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08/03/2007 01:04:12 AM |
I can't decide, in my mind I am seeing this poor thing getting absolutely drenched by a downpour, but I also see..
The Mothman in there. ;)
I didn't get to see the other title, so basing judgement only on 'her soul', I like it. :) |
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08/02/2007 01:32:44 PM |
Great motion, and love the colors. YOur work is always amazing
and such an inspiration. |
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08/02/2007 12:40:22 PM |
No, this isn't ugly! This is dramatic and interesting. With very striking color tones.
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08/02/2007 02:43:03 AM |
| i really liked the long title. |
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08/01/2007 10:13:55 PM |
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08/01/2007 10:06:24 PM |
wild! I am definitely going to get my visual horizons expanded here, I think :)
~Anni
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08/01/2007 10:05:17 PM |
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08/01/2007 09:56:35 PM |
| I see nothing ugly here...what a beautiful concept shot. |
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08/01/2007 09:01:01 PM |
| Quite beautiful. There's little to critique for me because I can find little that doesn't strike me about this as right on. I love the bit of dirt near the top of the frame, and the dizzy motion is really great. I guess I'll break from everyone else and wonder what it would have looked like without the cross-processed feel, perhaps in a deep contrast black and white... but this is really lovely. |
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08/01/2007 03:02:14 PM |
Great shot, full of rushing, there seems to be movement in so many planes here, almost in defiance of geometry, I could see this huge on a billboard, but I find the title distracting, i don't like to be led that much, this one cries out for 'untitled'.
Message edited by author 2007-08-01 15:03:42. |
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08/01/2007 01:45:06 PM |
| mad that bird's posture .. love the dangling legs and wings outstretched .. the blur really gives this a great feeling . :) |
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08/01/2007 01:09:05 PM |
| Sh*t. This is really interesting. I like that I have to study it. You nailed the title. |
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08/01/2007 12:15:07 PM |
| Great title as well, Lesley :-) I'm not sure "ugly" is the word we want, but "determinedly non-aesthetic" would work :-) There's story-telling at work here, and that's why this works. |
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08/01/2007 10:39:13 AM |
Acid and blur work so well together, don't they?!
I really like the effects achieved with the lens baby. I must purchase one of these : ) |
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08/01/2007 09:17:19 AM |
| Super job! Love the splashes of light and ethereal quality. |
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08/01/2007 08:50:25 AM |
| this has a very serene beauty. |
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08/01/2007 08:12:42 AM |
| Don't go into the light! :D The suggestion of motion here and the light rays effect give this shot a sense of momentousness that wouldn't be there if it were a pin-sharp stopped-motion capture. |
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08/01/2007 08:07:39 AM |
| very cool. has a bit of a good and evil feel to me with the white bird and the black bird(shadow i assume)..very nice. |
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08/01/2007 03:49:16 AM |
| This is just beautiful. I love the colour and the movement. Well done. |
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08/01/2007 03:25:57 AM |
Your bird here has soul.
Looks like she managed to scatter it all over after she ditched her egg too! |
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08/01/2007 03:04:38 AM |
| heaps good tucker, Rocky. |
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08/01/2007 03:01:19 AM |
| Methinks you're channeling xion in this one. Now if you're gonna play your own game, you gotta add info! Lensbaby - OK. Now beyond that - settings? Post? (I suspect cross processing, yes?) Has a glorious sense of being on the fringes of freedom. |
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08/01/2007 02:57:29 AM |
| :) :) :) let me just say that that greenish color is my most favorite color in the whole world. i love this shot to no end. and i have this little feeling that my "favorite photos" list is gonna grow endlessly in this unsharp august. :) |
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