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I'm starting a kind of 365, but only during the summer. Until I go to University the 14 September, I will try to post every day a picture. It's a little challenge for my holidays.
August 1, 2009.
But the quirk of our profession is this: that as soon as we concentrate on something, we immediately want to include it in our files; with the result, I confess, that I have often found myself cataloguing yawns, pimples, unhelpful associations of ideas, little tunes I've whistled, and then hiding them among the mass of more useful information.
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These photos are failures from a strictly technical standpoint: a tripod (which I didn't have at the time) is required for really good photos of fireworks displays; I decided to steady my camera as much as possible, and hope for the best—one or two might turn out. They did turn out, in fact, but not in the way I was hoping. The photographs in this set are as imperfect as they are perfect, and reveal an unexpected beauty in the night sky that is truly captivating in a way that's difficult to describe.
I decided to pair each photo with a passage from one of Calvino's Cosmicomic stories, many of which are recounted by Qfwfq, an omnipresent, timeless, protean narrator. Each Cosmicomic story is fun, compelling, and extremely inventive, while presenting a version of reality that is completely obvious and (un)commonplace.
Grand Feu d'Artifice, Grand Fireworks @ Fêtes de Genève (Geneva), 08.08.2015.
(c) Christophe Losberger
Feu d'artifice tiré au débarcadère de Saint-Paul (île de la Réunion)
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Switzerland presents its show for the Casino du Lac-Leamy fireworks on the Ottawa River. Theme was "love".
Then she was no more: the solid zone now occupied the whole central part of the planet. My sister remained in there, and I never found out whether she had stayed buried in those depths or whether she had reached safety on the other side until I met her, much later, at Canberra in 1912, married to a certain Sullivan, a retired railroad man, so changed I hardly recognized her.
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These photos are failures from a strictly technical standpoint: a tripod (which I didn't have at the time) is required for really good photos of fireworks displays; I decided to steady my camera as much as possible, and hope for the best—one or two might turn out. They did turn out, in fact, but not in the way I was hoping. The photographs in this set are as perfect as they are imperfect, and reveal an unexpected beauty in the night sky that is truly captivating in a way that's difficult to describe.
I decided to pair each photo with a passage from one of Calvino's Cosmicomic stories, many of which are recounted by Qfwfq, an omnipresent, timeless, protean narrator. Each Cosmicomic story is fun, compelling, and extremely inventive, while presenting a version of reality that is completely obvious and (un)commonplace.
L' "ora blu" nella Zoca de l'Oli - all'Isola Comacina...
Minuscolo e unico lembo di terra emerso dalle acque profonde del Lario, l'isola è uno scoglio boscoso, nell'insenatura della costa fra Argegno e la Penisola di Lavedo a Lenno.
Il braccio di lago che la separa dalla riva, punteggiato dalle vele e dagli alberi delle barche all'ormeggio nelle acque tranquille, è da sempre chiamato Zoca de l'Oli : acque imperturbabili e liscie come l'olio che si produce ancora artigianalmente dagli olivi coltivati su questa costiera comacina.
Murale "Hot Summer Night" Mural
© 2010 MU / Phillip Adams & David Guinn
Habitations Jeanne-Mance (144-154, Maisonneuve-E, Montréal)