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Marco (stage name: Paco) is a veteran of the Ferrara Buskers Festival. He's a good juggler, and an excellent entertainer: he's able to use for his show whatever happens around him. To say one: he was pretending to be near suicide, with an hilarious pathos and all of a sudden the great bell of Ferrara's cathedral starts to DOOOOOONNNNNNG. He started like: "Hey bishop, I was kidding! I was playing a role! Hey people, the priests here really care about what's around!" We were all laughing like crazy.
At the end of his performance he said that you can even decide to put nothing in his hat, but if you decide to put something, just think that this show didn't start an hour ago, an it's not finished now... I was moved by the elegant simplicity used to call an action, putting some money in a hat, to say thank for a smile and to sustain an artist. You could feel his passion while saying it.
After the show it was amazing to see that all of his stuff (plenty of) was stored on a travel bike, the PacoMachine! I'm a bike traveler too, so the hook was easy, and the following chat quite pleasant. He's traveling Europe on his bike, and showed all the simplicity true nice people have.
He was quite curious about the project and gladly posed.
This shot shows all the limits of my scanner, when it comes to scan colors, but hope his expression convey all the pleasure we had just talking about bikes, roads, arts, photos...
Next pic in my stream shows Marco in action, few minutes (and a different roll) before this shot.
Have a look at his website, there's some nice material.
Ciao Marco!
This picture is #87 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
Instruction #46
"Make a picture that is funny and sad at the same time. A photograph that simultaneously evokes pathos, irony and humour." - Jeff Mermelstein
non ha il pathos di certe natività, ma è graziosa !
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Instruction #46 - A side
"Make a picture that is funny and sad at the same time. A photograph that simultaneously evokes pathos, irony and humour." - Jeff Mermelstein
This is the forty-sixth Instruction for the Street Photography Now Project, written to inspire fresh ways of looking at and documenting the world we all live in.
B side:
I do not want to be reflective any more
Envying and despising unreflective things
Finding pathos in dogs and undeveloped handwriting
And young girls doing their hair and all the castles of sand
Flushed by the children’s bedtime, level with the shore.
The tide comes in and goes out again, I do not want
To be always stressing either its flux or its permanence,
I do not want to be a tragic or philosophic chorus
But to keep my eye only on the nearer future
And after that let the sea flow over us.
Come then all of you, come closer, form a circle,
Join hands and make believe that joined
Hands will keep away the wolves of water
Who howl along our coast. And be it assumed
That no one hears them among the talk and laughter. - Wolves by Louis MacNeice
Olympus Trip35
Kodak Ektar 100
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I was recently contacted by the Stanford yearbook people because they wanted to include my photos in their 2012 yearbook. The sad ending is that it did not work out. I was willing to work with them on the pricing but I think they wanted the pictures for free. Do you guys get this a lot, where someone asks to use your photos for a publication or commercial use and wants them for free? I am all about sharing, which is why all my photos are Creative Commons, non-commercial which means you can download them and use them for personal, non-commercial purposes as long as you attribute the photo to me and link back to my website. It actually does cost me time and money to make these photos available. Alas, all the nice folks at Stanford graduating this year will miss out on pictures such as this one from their beautiful campus.
In my listening to "Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen" of Gustav Mahler.
From the original image of skeleton `s Photo JL2B2719
There was a surge of divine pathos, which came to the souls of the prophets like a fierce passion, startling, shaking, burning, and led them forth to the perilous defiance of people’s self-assurance and contentment. Beneath all songs and sermons they held conference with God’s concern for the people, with the well out of which the tides of anger raged.
-Abraham Joshua Heschel
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A few months ago I posted a photo of Rodin’s Gates of Hell, so I thought I would keep the delicate balance with a picture of Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise. Lorenzo Ghiberti condensed the Old Testament into ten panels to produce one of the defining masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance and it is available for your viewing pleasure at San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral. Sheer awesomeness.
Apollonius, Boxer at Rest, 1st century B.C.E. (may be a copy of a 4th century sculpture), bronze, Palazzo Massimo, Museo Nazionale Romano