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Ted Byrne   (2011-06-12)

Okay... I've stopped lurking here on June 12... while doing riding an historical bathosphere down through your memories. And it stopped once again at this level... at this image. And here's a request... could you return to this spot and play with this fence? It is so damned intriguing to me. Dunno why.... but it seems so Olde Vienna to my never-been-in-Autria-except-in-books-and-movies imagination. So much elegance baked into something so utilitarian. The stone work, the iron work... the entire thing is just some architect's throw-away! Imagine that this is only a DETAIL! Was it considered just ephemera by the craftsmen? By the designer? I wonder who sat at a drawing board and lavished such imagination on this accessory? Was it a VERY junior draftsman? Was it a quickly knocked off pencil sketch by some great mind? Imagine the process. How many hours were folded into this thing. But... but... there they are... what a century later? Centuries later? Whispering... "Look here. I existed. Here it is... my contribution to you... so perfect... so incidental. But, of all the people who worked when I worked, lived when I lived, here... here's my mark. Still here. Will your's be somewhere to tingle imaginations and feelings? Huh? Huh?"

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andreas   (2011-06-12)

You mean something like "735 - A Place Aside"? Or maybe the second image in "720 - Runnin' Blue"? I do like this place, my friend 🙂

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Ted byrne   (2011-06-18)

There is an odd thing about my brain. As a child it became apparent to me that the magazine models never looked the same. If they changed makeup, hairstyle, costume -- or if they were photographed at different angle, or were differently lit... They became to me unrecognizable from earlier pictures. Some people are color blind, it seems that in still photos, I am somewhat recognition blind. Now tha t makes the world continually new, but it also means that I'd make a lousy wittness if asked to pick a thug out from mug shots.... Now that you show me these two older images again... Well duh.... Uh-huh they are wonderfully additional ways for me to imagine answers to my earlier questions. Ahhh... As my old adage goes Andreas... Art without wonder is merely craft!

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andreas   (2011-06-18)

Funny to hear that we share deficiencies. I am in constant fear of not recognizing someone important from my past 🙂 Similarity or continuity are interesting concepts, but for me they are hard to apply. I wonder what that is, a disinterest in visual features of people or an inability to remember them. I suppose you know the dizzy and disconcerting feeling of being greeted by someone who you can't even vaguely remember.

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