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Diagnostic: Flickr Addict.
Model: Sergio González Ramírez .
Production: Carlos Bravo for ArteTerrestre dot com.
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Tally-Ho Playing Cards
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sb-25 camera left, 1/16 power
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Ho scattato questa foto il 4 agosto 2011. Avevo già inserito un'altra foto della Tour Eiffel scattata quello stesso giorno, ma da una diversa prospettiva. Questa è stata scattata una decina di minuti dopo. Di quella sera mi è rimasta impressa la singolare reazione avuta da alcuni turisti (due coppie di tedeschi e un ragazzo venezuelano) ai miei tentativi di immortalare la torre: devono avermi scambiato per un fotografo professionista, così, del tutto ignari di trovarsi di fronte a un dilettante alle prime armi, avranno pensato: "quale migliore occasione per farci scattare una bella foto da uno del mestiere?". Io ho fatto del mio meglio; spero di non averli delusi. Poi, però, sono tornato a dedicarmi alle mie foto.
Our cat Hammy was introduced to iPhone cat games and now he's addicted. He'll play with the screen or just stare at it for an hour. He even gets frustrated eventually and jumps up in disgust. He also tries to take our phones out of our hands while we're using them.
I’m quite sure that there should be a Helpline for anyone addicted to the 100 Strangers Project, as I was out again this afternoon looking for another one. I’m completely hooked! I saw a couple of people but they weren’t interested so I thanked them and continued my search. As I turned the corner into the road that has a restaurant in it with a terrace, I saw someone sitting at the table wearing a hat that looked interesting. As I got closer I realised that I recognised the hat and the man wearing it. It was a fellow Flickr member who lives in Etampes and I met for the first time a few years ago. I couldn’t possible call Jacky Corbel a stranger. But I did sit down for a chat with him and his friend.
Eventually after a long chat and a coffee I thought it was time I found this stranger and although some other people who I didn’t know joined us, none of them liked the idea of having their photos taken. So I left them and continued my search. Saw and asked some more people, but they said no too, by which time I had been out far longer than I intended to be, so turned round and headed home. Surely there’d be someone. Just as I turned into the main square I saw someone walking towards me who looked like a hopeful. When he was close enough I asked if he had some time and he asked why, so I explained and he said yes, he’d take part.
Meet Prince, he’s 32 and is a film director. He was born in Togo but lives in Germany and is in France making his first film. I forgot to ask why he was in Etampes, but my guess is that he was looking for locations for his film as Etampes has featured in several films already. He’s not married and hasn’t got any children. When he’s not working he writes his screenplays, watches TV and videos.
I looked around me for a place to take his photos the sun was right behind me, but it was going to make it uncomfortable for Prince. Being a film director and possibly a mind reader too he asked if I wanted to find a different location to take his photo. I do like taking photos of someone who know what he’s doing! So we moved into a small side road and I took my first photo of him. The background wasn’t great, a muddle of exterior air vents. The photo was OK, but I asked if we could move to a more attractive spot. No problem, so I moved him to another side road and took the other three photos. We looked through them and both agreed that the first and second were the best of the four I took. I have chosen the main shot as it was the best and the complimentary photo (my third of him) as he looked very similar in the first two I took and the last. I then asked what he hadn’t liked eating as a child and caught my last photo. He didn’t like a vegetable from Togo called “Gombo.” Apparently when it’s cooked it resembles cooked cheese and he didn’t like the stringiness of it.
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When I’d finished taking his photo I leant on a wall to write my notes and we chatted about this and that once I’d finished. Prince was really interesting and it was a pleasure to have met him. Another time I find a Film producer to photo I’ll take his word that a horrible looking alley might really be the best place to take his portrait. I gave him the details of where to find his photos and wished him good luck before we both went out separate ways.
100 Strangers (Round I) www.flickr.com/photos/44506883@N04/sets/72157627810663376/
100 Strangers (Round II) www.flickr.com/photos/44506883@N04/sets/72157632333365533/
100 Strangers (Round III) www.flickr.com/photos/44506883@N04/sets/72157634454644547...
100 Strangers Group www.flickr.com/groups/100strangers/
Merci beaucoup Prince.
I just randomly made this... the picture is from google, I did not take it... I only added the "addicted." part in the bottom left hand corner.
Me and, me and me and Max
(Hugga mugga, hugga mug-ah)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2Dnm-8OEgk
In 1997-ish there was a promotion where you could send away for Max mugs. I owned two. They are long gone and my taste in coffee has changed too, but coffee is still my number one morning priority. Although I don't drink Maxwell House coffee anymore, that jingle in the link is the one I drink to.
According to my internet search, the S.S. Beaver was a steamboat owned by the Hudson's Bay Company and used to service trading posts. This mug, however, made me smirk when I saw it. Aren't there like, marketing people employed by such companies who, say, nix certain designs because immature people like me will only see it in terms of the slang? It's like all those Canadians who go down under wearing their Roots sweatshirts and having the Aussies snigger behind their back.
Beaver.
HBC should really hire some young punk who's hip to these things...
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