bellyflop

I am amazed at the gamut of questions and statements in response to this

www.formspring.com/forms/?674434-3874Fujbg9

(go on, you can do it...)

 

Thanks everyone....

 

 

1. Q; talk to me: OK, what an interesting idea, and here's one that has been bugging me -

Is our sense of beauty in art primarily ancestral, or is it primarily learnt? Does our evolved preference for savannah like scenes, beautiful (healthy) faces and bodies, food, safety and comfort act as a foundation for all of our learned preferences in art, or is it a primary filter through which we view everything, at least on some level? Or can other fundamental metaphors, learned more than inherited, and cultural more than evolved, be a completely separate basis for artistic delight and WOW! The question is inspired by (for me) the surprising uniformity in artistic preference across cultures, exemplified by flickr. Appreciation of much art (although not all derivative, modernist and minimalist forms) seems somewhat universal - we intuitively enjoy Chinese architecture, Afrikan sculpture, or Japanese art, even if we don't have the cultural reference points to understand it.

 

A: I don't even know where to begin.

In my sleep-deprived state coupled with the garden-variety summer lethargy, all I can seem to say is that is such an impressive question, I think trying to answer it would never do justice to its tidy profound perfection.

I am going to answer this in a bit, after I have warmed up...

 

2: Q: talk to me: What makes a photograph interesting to you? How does a photographer or contact hold your interest?

A: That is one I can't answer.

Sometimes it makes a lot of sense, if the person is a great photographer and they have a lot to teach, and others out of habit. Many (if not most) of my contacts truly hate flower macros, and yet they have politely lasted through my most painful and protracted attempts. If they hang in there, they have won me over. This is the litmus test, whether they one day send me a raging e-mail in all caps threatening flag my photos if there is ONE MORE OVERSATURATED LILY.

I am sure their fingers have hovered over the "remove this contact"option more than a few times.

These are my friends, and I respond in kind~

 

3.Q: How was the shower?

A: It was awesome.

I went an hour out of the city to a friend's house and we sat on sawed off lawn chairs staring at the sky and talking until we were covered with dew. The meteors were everywhere, just never where I had pointed my camera.

Ever.

And I probably had all my settings wrong, but the night was good, the company wonderful, and I can pretend there was cloud cover...

 

4.Q: talk to me: Did you see any Perseid meteors?

A: (See really lame excuse above, and example of a lovely meteorless night down the the comments)

 

talk to me: sweet dreams

who ever, where ever, u are

 

A:

:) goodnight, friend~

 

Q: talk to me: now that ur n 2 photography so deep, could u ever live without it???

 

A: I could, but it would be like losing an appendage.

It is--has become--an addiction.

 

Q: talk to me: When will I be born?

A: I guess when you let go of everything

(Every question that came, I thought of who had sent it... and with the exception of a few, I have no idea. But this one really stumped me and sent my poor underexcercised brain limping down a path that led in many directions~)

 

Q: talk to me: I’ve run out of laundry detergent. I have a large load to finish quickly. Can I use dish soap in the washing machine?

 

Of course!

And then you can serve dinner inside your socks, pita-fashion.

 

Q: talk to me: Hello my name is Denis

What is this form about? Why oh why?

 

A: (See the first question)

 

Q: talk to me: Why don't you ever answer e-mails?

A: Hi Mum! :)

 

Q:talk to me: For me love is just a dream . . . . Why it can't be real for everybody?

A: I think it is a dream for everyone~

 

---Flickr keeps hiccuping back everything I write.

I'll try later when it has held its breath and swallowed a glass of water---

 

Q: talk to me: Do you also experience the evaporation of the world around you when your eye and soul re capturing those beautiful or interesting images? :-)

 

A: That is a perfect way of describing what happens. It simply vanishes~

 

Q: talk to me: You are attending a wedding of someone you barely know. Suddenly the Bride and Groom lead a march in and around the reception location, adding guests' at the end of the line with The Bunny Hop tune playing. Your luck as the last person in line is an attractive well dressed man. Do you, finish your drink and jump in or slip off to the bathroom until the music stops?

A: You lost me at The Bunny Hop :)

Not even for a D3~

 

Q: talk to me: Do you dream in color?

A: I dream in low resolution, and the colour, if any, is faint.

 

Q: talk to me: If you were selected to be the photographer on the first manned mission to Mars would you accept the challenge?

A: They would never select me. I don't even know how work a flash, and unless there are cute little flowers on Mars, I'd be useless anyway...

 

Q: talk to me: Is there anybody there? Does anybody care?

A: Always, but perhaps not always the ones we want to care for us...

 

Q: talk to me: How tall are you?

A: Somewhere between 5'10" and 5'11"

I used to hate it, but it doesn't bother me any more

 

Q: talk to me: is any body in there ?

A: Yes, I am just very slow :)

 

very

very

slow...

 

Q:talk to me: Ever wonder if your best shot has been taken? What gets you to the next one?

A: I don't think I have a best, or at least it keeps changing (in my opinion)

I never have any problem getting to the next one. It's a question of doing it in a way that does not irritate everyone around me.

I do have a problem with the grim desaturation of winter, though. I lose a lot of inspiration when the sun is cold and bare.

 

 

Done