Notes on life, art, photography and technology, by a Danish dropout bohemian.
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Thursday, November 09, 2006
Watermen
I just found this old photo of mine. I think I took in on a compact 35mm camera, but unlike me I can't remember which. Incidentally, the guy on the left is this guy (the friend who told me about his colleague).
I'm guessing that's what William meant. Many people think so, I never got it either. --- Pascal, not that old days, like early nineties. These guys are both friends of mine, great guys both. I remember the tall guy Erik said: "Why are you keeping on your trunks??" And Rene said "well, I don't wanna scare the child." (Joking of course about his endowment.) Erik argued more, and Rene said: "Listen, it's just the way my modesty is configured today, OK?"
The reason I have never used this image before, despite liking it a lot, is that Rene is member of a controversial church, and he feared that the picture would "seem gay", and might thus reflect badly on the church. But now I just though it's just too silly. Who gives a sh*t if they're gay or not? (They aren't, they both have wonderful wives who are also friends of mine.)
Sounds like it was a fun day. :) this from someone who went swimming in the ocean in jeans last summer..in retrospect, less clothes would have been easier. :)
Anyway, don't you need to ask Rene's permission to be allowed to post the picture? Because while you and I think it doesn't really have any reflection on the church, maybe he has a different idea?
I don't need his permission, the picture was taken in public.
Politeness is another issue, but I am not in touch with him currently, so I am just assuming it was a little mind spasm which made him think this silly thing. And the real "danger" is totally nil in my judgement.
Thank you very much. I think so too, which is why I did. I think it manages to be at the same time a funny picture, a warm picture, and an aesthetic picture, what with the composition and all the gray tones.
And here I am with an image of a photographer and a big huge cauldron on fire tipping in a bit of funniness, a pinch of warmth and a dolop of artisticness! :)
"Raging. The girly site is just a ruse." A most devious one. You sure had ME fooled! ;-)
"These guys are both friends of mine" Are THEY gay? ;-)
"(They aren't, they both have wonderful wives who are also friends of mine.)" So... Are the WIVES gay? No, wait, I've got it! It's just your CAMERA that was gay all along. Hah! I'm brilliant!
"And the real "danger" is totally nil in my judgement." I'd say it's not if he lives in some places of the USA, but... this might have just changed. :-)
"I think it manages to be at the same time a funny picture, a warm picture, and an aesthetic picture" I agree. The internet is full of freely available REAL gay pictures (and sometimes hard to avoid), if anybody needs some reference to know the difference with THIS photo. Also, there are lots of non-gay "simple" nude male pictures, like the daily one on the International Naturists Association's site often shows.
"in case that sound immodest" One of the best pics I took of my cat was with my first amateurish film. And I think it was quite by luck. He was leaning upright against a wall, which had a mirror on it. I placed the camera vertically against the wall, and it caught the reflection with the cat, both looking straight at the lens. Very nice effect. Photography is art, but it doesn't create, just show (and eventually arrange) with sometimes great talent. Reworked images notwithstanding.
"The cauldron viewpoint is more flattering, let's go with that." Jerry Springer's audience, chanting : "WE-WANT-CAULDRONS! WE-WANT-CAULDRONS! WE-WANT-CAULDRONS!" So let's see that wizard kitchen of yours, Hannah. Pretty please, with makeup on its face and flickering eyelids?
Dunno, does it? If so, I didn't mean it that way. :) I also just gave Google some choice key words (note that "keyboard female" returned info about keyboards with USB female plugs) .. and couldn't find anything about it. Do tell!
Actually, I invented the slang meaning myself. I figured that mentioning it here as if it already existed would be a great way to launch a new word. Seems to be working so far!
I am now slightly refining my strategy: By admitting the fabrication and thus providing some personal background, I am hoping the concept will get even more sticking power to better survive the rough times all new slang words go through. We'll see how this puppy fares.
"Don't you know cauldrons are dangerous, Pascal?" Oh, riiiight... that's what the Hogwarts Choir was singing at the beginning of the Harry Potter 4 movie. These potions sure can cause some damage! And I recall one of Asterix's adventures, where the Romans were accidentally bombed by flying exploding vats. Man, these things should come with an advisory and airbag.
Oh, and Hannah, no unfair competition please. Sticking to a babe's "keyboard" is a man's guarded domain! So you go easy on the glue, okay?
"I am now slightly refining my strategy" Smooth move, TTL. The "scandal" of a well-timed "leak" might be just the needed boost for your creation to attain fame! Hm... "Through The Lens", this reminds me of something... AH-HA!!! Gotcha! You can drop the mask, Mr movie-maker Gibson, I've found out your identity! Not very cunning, using the same publicity stunt twice.
"I don't understand it" Hannah, just imagine a romantic guy wanting to do with your body what's usually done to a keyboard. Y'know, fingers all over it... ;-)
"Harry Potter 3, actually" Oh, right. The #4 had these super-cool entries by the two guest schools' students.
"I was actually quoting MacBeth, though." I know. :-) It would seem JK Rowling is a Macbeth fan too. It WAS a nice little song. A bit croaky in the end, perhaps? ;-) Rribbit!
Very nice, thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThese old things culd sure do some good work!
ReplyDeleteThe wet underwear is very funny. Ah, the good old prude days!
That was a typo. I meant "could".
ReplyDeleteNo relation with the PS2 game "Culdcept"! ;-)
[No naked men THERE.]
are you gay mr. stobblehouse?
ReplyDeleteRaging. The girly site is just a ruse.
ReplyDeleteI don't get the link... men without clothes means gay?
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing that's what William meant. Many people think so, I never got it either.
ReplyDelete---
Pascal, not that old days, like early nineties.
These guys are both friends of mine, great guys both. I remember the tall guy Erik said: "Why are you keeping on your trunks??"
And Rene said "well, I don't wanna scare the child." (Joking of course about his endowment.)
Erik argued more, and Rene said: "Listen, it's just the way my modesty is configured today, OK?"
We were a group of friends walking on the beach. We were in a summer home for a writing workshop in the "Living Poets Society."
ReplyDeleteThe reason I have never used this image before, despite liking it a lot, is that Rene is member of a controversial church, and he feared that the picture would "seem gay", and might thus reflect badly on the church.
ReplyDeleteBut now I just though it's just too silly. Who gives a sh*t if they're gay or not? (They aren't, they both have wonderful wives who are also friends of mine.)
Sounds like it was a fun day. :) this from someone who went swimming in the ocean in jeans last summer..in retrospect, less clothes would have been easier. :)
ReplyDeleteAnyway, don't you need to ask Rene's permission to be allowed to post the picture? Because while you and I think it doesn't really have any reflection on the church, maybe he has a different idea?
What child?
ReplyDeleteSome of them had a child along.
ReplyDeleteI don't need his permission, the picture was taken in public.
Politeness is another issue, but I am not in touch with him currently, so I am just assuming it was a little mind spasm which made him think this silly thing. And the real "danger" is totally nil in my judgement.
Ah, ok, I thought the child was some sort of metaphor. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm happy you shared it with us, though. It's a really nice picture.
Thank you very much. I think so too, which is why I did. I think it manages to be at the same time a funny picture, a warm picture, and an aesthetic picture, what with the composition and all the gray tones.
ReplyDelete... Oh, and in case that sound immodest, I think most of those qualities come from the subject, the models and the sea and sky.
ReplyDeleteAnd here I am with an image of a photographer and a big huge cauldron on fire tipping in a bit of funniness, a pinch of warmth and a dolop of artisticness! :)
ReplyDeleteThough I do think that this is one of the pictures that just looks better in the softer tones instead of full color.
ReplyDeleteLOL!
ReplyDeleteThe cauldron viewpoint is more flattering, let's go with that.
"Raging. The girly site is just a ruse."
ReplyDeleteA most devious one. You sure had ME fooled! ;-)
"These guys are both friends of mine"
Are THEY gay? ;-)
"(They aren't, they both have wonderful wives who are also friends of mine.)"
So... Are the WIVES gay?
No, wait, I've got it! It's just your CAMERA that was gay all along. Hah! I'm brilliant!
"And the real "danger" is totally nil in my judgement."
I'd say it's not if he lives in some places of the USA, but... this might have just changed. :-)
"I think it manages to be at the same time a funny picture, a warm picture, and an aesthetic picture"
I agree. The internet is full of freely available REAL gay pictures (and sometimes hard to avoid), if anybody needs some reference to know the difference with THIS photo. Also, there are lots of non-gay "simple" nude male pictures, like the daily one on the International Naturists Association's site often shows.
"in case that sound immodest"
One of the best pics I took of my cat was with my first amateurish film. And I think it was quite by luck. He was leaning upright against a wall, which had a mirror on it. I placed the camera vertically against the wall, and it caught the reflection with the cat, both looking straight at the lens. Very nice effect.
Photography is art, but it doesn't create, just show (and eventually arrange) with sometimes great talent. Reworked images notwithstanding.
"The cauldron viewpoint is more flattering, let's go with that."
Jerry Springer's audience, chanting :
"WE-WANT-CAULDRONS!
WE-WANT-CAULDRONS!
WE-WANT-CAULDRONS!"
So let's see that wizard kitchen of yours, Hannah. Pretty please, with makeup on its face and flickering eyelids?
LOL I love photography and websites and graphic design - but I guess my real sword is still the pen - or in this case, the keyboard. :)
ReplyDeleteHannah said: "... but I guess my real sword is still ... the keyboard."
ReplyDeleteWasn't 'keyboard' some kind of a new slang word for feminine ... er ... curvature? :-)
Dunno, does it? If so, I didn't mean it that way. :) I also just gave Google some choice key words (note that "keyboard female" returned info about keyboards with USB female plugs) .. and couldn't find anything about it. Do tell!
ReplyDeleteSo what? Since when was a bright woman's "keyboard" any problem?
ReplyDelete;-)
Not that I see much relation between the shape of keyboard keys and that of a woman. Except in Picasso's cubist paintings!
So TTL, please be a gentleman and stop... "googling" at Hannah's... "keyboard"!
;-)
I hope that wasn't too "byting" a comment? Um... maybe just a "bit". Okay, so it was a two-bit 8-bits pun! "Modem-ty" aside. So spam me!
So, Hannah... no sexy cauldron pics to post then?
I'll have to get be a better fetish.
"Double, double toil and trouble;
ReplyDeleteFire burn, and caldron bubble."
Don't you know cauldrons are dangerous, Pascal? :) I'll stick to keyboards. :)
Actually, I invented the slang meaning myself. I figured that mentioning it here as if it already existed would be a great way to launch a new word. Seems to be working so far!
ReplyDeleteI am now slightly refining my strategy: By admitting the fabrication and thus providing some personal background, I am hoping the concept will get even more sticking power to better survive the rough times all new slang words go through. We'll see how this puppy fares.
Anyway, nice keyboard, Hannah! :-)
LOL I don't understand it, but I'm just going to take it as a compliment, so: thanks! :)
ReplyDelete"Don't you know cauldrons are dangerous, Pascal?"
ReplyDeleteOh, riiiight... that's what the Hogwarts Choir was singing at the beginning of the Harry Potter 4 movie. These potions sure can cause some damage!
And I recall one of Asterix's adventures, where the Romans were accidentally bombed by flying exploding vats. Man, these things should come with an advisory and airbag.
Oh, and Hannah, no unfair competition please. Sticking to a babe's "keyboard" is a man's guarded domain! So you go easy on the glue, okay?
"I am now slightly refining my strategy"
Smooth move, TTL. The "scandal" of a well-timed "leak" might be just the needed boost for your creation to attain fame!
Hm... "Through The Lens", this reminds me of something... AH-HA!!! Gotcha! You can drop the mask, Mr movie-maker Gibson, I've found out your identity! Not very cunning, using the same publicity stunt twice.
"I don't understand it"
Hannah, just imagine a romantic guy wanting to do with your body what's usually done to a keyboard. Y'know, fingers all over it...
;-)
Harry Potter 3, actually, it's one of my favorite parts of that movie. :) Excellent song. I was actually quoting MacBeth, though. :)
ReplyDeleteLOL Ok, now I get it. :) I'm going back to the naïef corner, ok?
"Harry Potter 3, actually"
ReplyDeleteOh, right. The #4 had these super-cool entries by the two guest schools' students.
"I was actually quoting MacBeth, though."
I know. :-) It would seem JK Rowling is a Macbeth fan too. It WAS a nice little song. A bit croaky in the end, perhaps? ;-)
Rribbit!