Francesc Candel
Nobody answered the phone.
This is one of the first works I did with Photoshop.I hope you will be indulgent with this very old image. Those were hard times, where digital material was scarce and very expensive. Quality scanners were extremely expensive and computers were very slow. This image was made with a Photoshop with strange numbers these days: PS version 3.5.4. Installed with floppy disks. The computer was a Mac with the incredible speed of 75 Mzh (no, no... not Giga... Megaherzios). Its hard drive disk was 600 megabytes, less than the capacity of a CD. And it had 4 megabytes of RAM, to feed the RAM memory "devourer" that is Photoshop. There was no choice but to expand the memory to the strange figure of 88 megabytes. Nowadays with today's computers these figures are ridiculous. But I miss those complicated times. Each job had to be carefully thought out so as not to make mistakes. Photoshop was consuming all the RAM and writing to the hard drive disk causing the operating system to crash and hang. It was no fun to lose the work you were doing. But they were possibly the most creative years because you had little material to work with and the means were not optimised for the new technologies and at very high prices. The beginnings are always difficult, but they are the most beautiful, because you give the most of yourself and you squeeze your brain to make up for the shortcomings and to make the best possible use of the means you have at your disposal. Homesickness.
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Telephone and Rubber Band / Live in Tokyo, Penguin Cafe Japan Tour 2014
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Telephone and Rubber Band / Penguin Cafe Orchestra (1981)
Steely Dan - Rikki Don't Lose That Number / Pretzel Logic (1974)
Lou Reed - New York Telephone Conversation / Transformer (1972)
PS: They say life is a waiting room... always waiting, waiting, waiting... And now the phone line is busy, uuuffff... tu-tu-tu, tu-tu-tu.
Cake - Never There / Prolonging the Magic (1998)
Kraftwerk - The Telephone Call / Electric Café (1986)
PS: Riiiiinnngggg... Pattie: "Hello. May I ask who's calling, please?”.
PS: Eric: "Hello it's me..."
Todd Rundgren - Hello It's Me / Something/Anything? (1972)
Bonus track:
Layla tells the story of Eric Clapton's infatuation with Pattie Boyd, a love she did not reciprocate. Pattie was the wife of his friend... George Harrison, component of the mythical Beatles.
Eric Clapton - Layla / Planes, Trains And Eric, Mid And Far East Tour, Live 2014
PS: Riiiiinnngggg... Pattie: "Eric, please... forget me. Don't call me anymore, please... tu-tu-tu, tu-tu-tu, tu-tu-tu..."
PS: Eric: tu-tu-tu, tu-tu-tu, tu-tu-tu... "They say life is a waiting room..."
Finley Quaye - Sweet and Loving Man / Maverick a Strike (1997)
The picture is from an undetermined place. I don't remember where or by what name. A town on the English coast. And the person in the picture was called Eric... but it wasn't Eric Clapton, obviously.
Nobody answered the phone.
This is one of the first works I did with Photoshop.I hope you will be indulgent with this very old image. Those were hard times, where digital material was scarce and very expensive. Quality scanners were extremely expensive and computers were very slow. This image was made with a Photoshop with strange numbers these days: PS version 3.5.4. Installed with floppy disks. The computer was a Mac with the incredible speed of 75 Mzh (no, no... not Giga... Megaherzios). Its hard drive disk was 600 megabytes, less than the capacity of a CD. And it had 4 megabytes of RAM, to feed the RAM memory "devourer" that is Photoshop. There was no choice but to expand the memory to the strange figure of 88 megabytes. Nowadays with today's computers these figures are ridiculous. But I miss those complicated times. Each job had to be carefully thought out so as not to make mistakes. Photoshop was consuming all the RAM and writing to the hard drive disk causing the operating system to crash and hang. It was no fun to lose the work you were doing. But they were possibly the most creative years because you had little material to work with and the means were not optimised for the new technologies and at very high prices. The beginnings are always difficult, but they are the most beautiful, because you give the most of yourself and you squeeze your brain to make up for the shortcomings and to make the best possible use of the means you have at your disposal. Homesickness.
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Telephone and Rubber Band / Live in Tokyo, Penguin Cafe Japan Tour 2014
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Telephone and Rubber Band / Penguin Cafe Orchestra (1981)
Steely Dan - Rikki Don't Lose That Number / Pretzel Logic (1974)
Lou Reed - New York Telephone Conversation / Transformer (1972)
PS: They say life is a waiting room... always waiting, waiting, waiting... And now the phone line is busy, uuuffff... tu-tu-tu, tu-tu-tu.
Cake - Never There / Prolonging the Magic (1998)
Kraftwerk - The Telephone Call / Electric Café (1986)
PS: Riiiiinnngggg... Pattie: "Hello. May I ask who's calling, please?”.
PS: Eric: "Hello it's me..."
Todd Rundgren - Hello It's Me / Something/Anything? (1972)
Bonus track:
Layla tells the story of Eric Clapton's infatuation with Pattie Boyd, a love she did not reciprocate. Pattie was the wife of his friend... George Harrison, component of the mythical Beatles.
Eric Clapton - Layla / Planes, Trains And Eric, Mid And Far East Tour, Live 2014
PS: Riiiiinnngggg... Pattie: "Eric, please... forget me. Don't call me anymore, please... tu-tu-tu, tu-tu-tu, tu-tu-tu..."
PS: Eric: tu-tu-tu, tu-tu-tu, tu-tu-tu... "They say life is a waiting room..."
Finley Quaye - Sweet and Loving Man / Maverick a Strike (1997)
The picture is from an undetermined place. I don't remember where or by what name. A town on the English coast. And the person in the picture was called Eric... but it wasn't Eric Clapton, obviously.