Maria Burns is my next door neighbor…literally….and a photographer….and an erstwhile student at the International Center of Photography here in New York….Maria is Swiss and a finer neighbor one could not have…i just took this picture tonight after returning to NYC from the Carolina shore…..so i was leaving home and coming home at the same time…..as happens here in the Kibbutz, folks just pop their heads in to say howdy…mighty small town feel the Kibbutz…..so just as i was trying to edit something for Burn, in walks Maria….
saying that she couldn’t stay long, because she ,”i have to do my homework”….
in any case, what would you do?? yes, damn right, you take a picture….any old picture..right??
now i want at some point in time to photograph Maria seriously for the “You Made Me Leave” book i am doing…this was just a “warm up” picture…a print to give to Maria…..neither of us is “loose enough yet” for the real thing…but, this is part of the process….and i will show you what eventually comes out of it….
by the way, Maria is a professional “hugger” (see YouTube link below)….i think we could all use one….
what is the point of this post???
why am i not announcing the EPF grant finalists?
yes, ok ok , i will announce the EPF finalists soonest…i am not trying to tease, i am just behind…so, my usual plea for patience will i hope not fall on deaf ears….i should be able to announce the finalists to be juried for the EPF by next week…so, that will be my next post under Dialogue….
well, there really is not much point to this post except it is just in the spirit of “journal” or “diary”…and i have a pretty good photo diary of snapshots of family and friends as above from the time i was 13 to just a few minutes ago when i made this photo…and maybe i just wanted some excuse to write tonight and keep it “light tonight” on our forum…while our number one preoccupation is viewing the work of some young photographers here on Burn, the phenomenon of Burn is that so many of us have become such good friends in “real life”…our virtual world has become the real world…cool huh?? …and something that none of us know about yet will happen here on BURN and with our community and the work produced…
we are going to have a tiny little notch in photo history….i believe in that kinda stuff….
i think there are few of us who do not feel the magic in full throttle ,thundering down the road….and while there has never been an intent here to create some kind of social site, the BURN crowd exists in reality …. worldwide…many of you reading this know this to be absolute…of course the writers here form a bit of a dysfunctional family…pretty obvious….doors get slammed……arguing is heard…..yet, the laughter is raucous….life/photoraphy is talked about in a special way…the best of Burn will make us all proud…..the respect runs deep……everybody sits down for dinner….nobody really leaves home…..
maybe that is the point of this post…maybe i was just trying to say ..welcome home…..
abrazos, david
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKDsq7l-e5A
If you doubt my stupid word, easy way to test it. Drop me an email with some technical question only a working photographer would be able to answer. Gear, light, digi, film, you name it. stupidphotog at aol dot com.
THANK YOU BURN,
I just checked out the website :
THANK YOU MR.STEVE WINTER for giving us the “front row seat next to you”
( see Bobb’s post for the link on amur Leopard…)
I FEEL LIKE A LEOPARD TODAY … BUT A FLUFFY ONE…
Come on everyone…ENJOY !!!
Mr. Jim ,is “Amur Leopard” your cup of tea ???
Hey Stoop ,
Thanks for your address and invitation..
Check your mail…
Ok y’all ..
Again morning from filthy Vegas..
:)))
TO ALL
The Amur (Far Eastern) leopard, Panthera Pardus Orientalis, is the rarest big cat in the world and yet is still a relatively unknown species of leopard outside of its homeland in Russia.
http://www.amur.org.uk/leopards.shtml
Maybe that link can help …??
The stupid pleasure of meeting you via email is all mine, Panos! :)
Hey Bong Hit,
You know my background and my commitment to photography, the degrees, who I studied with, that I did work as a pro. Sure, it was pornography, but still. I can photoshop the zits of a pornstar’s ass better than anyone here.
Manipulate the forum as much as you want, you have a junkie’s gift for doing just that. Just don’t lie about me as you do it, numbnuts.
Bong Hit? Is Michael Phelps posting here!? I’m so stupidly confused now…
Hey, Stoop..
:))))
mr.Phelps is DA MAN!!!!
Bus stop. Get the ef out. All.
Stoop, good morning :)
Panos – numbnuts – punk’d – hohoho.
You know what? Coming back here, over and over, to see what’s up, and seeing that sexy fluffy, too soft, too tungsten, tilled picture, over and over, has made it grow on me! AARGH! How stupid am I?
Congratulations Stoop. You are now disqualified from SPA :)
Nobody is stupid enough for that!
TODAY, I wish, I WISH I AM Harry Andrington or
Shall I say Andrew Harrington…?
My feisty KATIE …for you, and where the heck is MY GRACIE ????????
WE all know that MR. DAH is chasing tumbleweeds :))))
Where is Everyone???
Today we are “chasing” leopards with HARRY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
P.S Stoop, Panos, Haik …I thought I am DA MANNN
OK lAUGH but DON”T blink (said Bobby)
Yeeeeeeeeee haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Space… baby
CIVI…
don’t know bout the rest but I’m still
In Las Vegas.. Drinking ZERO..
check the live Vegas feed below:
:)))))
http://club.haiko.net/
PS…
Do we have to pay an arm and a leg to post there…
I LOVE the photos…but is it like the SPA thing… Do I have to buy something like K9, M9
Can Civilians and readers and BURNians from all over the world post too…???
I hope I am not sound that stupid :)))
Please Do Reply … if it’s possible !
Yes..
Haik actually created this blog..
Originally it was Katharinas idea and the name
is invented by our AUDREY..
( Audrey merci..!!!)
Now everyone is welcomed to post anything… They like..
It’s an non exclusive club that includes everybody..
The name is:
CONVERSES ROUGE..
it’s simple to participate..
Just email
Your photo to the following email address and voilà..
Your photo will be posted in a second or two..
Email address is:
mesropian.club123@blogger.com
Thank you all..:)
CONVERSES ROUGES..
( sorry Audrey )…:)))
Thank you CIVI for asking
:)))))
You’re a good guy..
Everyone here loves you..
I don’t know how u do it..!!!??
I’m jealous..
You’re the most popular kid in this class…
running…
writing, writing…
shake up the dance floor….
vegas style ;))))…
MANO NEGRA…
right on the money bob…:)))
who said Mano Negra..hmm…dialing my ipod to mano babeee…thanks Panos for the mention..
hey, Stu’…stupid is as stupid does..to know you is to love you..
Civi’, Panos said it, EVERYBODY loves you..you ARE Da Man..da Mano Chau da Mano Negra or just plain da Mano Derecha..heh..
i was out shooting alllllllll day..weather was sublime, the company was, uh, very interesting..spent large amount of time shooting a bunch of kids from the “Sexual Diversity Club” just chilling in the park. We played Hot Potato. Whoever lost had to do a “castigo” determined by the group. Like go up to some girl and tell them they were ‘guapa’. Or walk over to the kiosk holding hands..They let me make the rules…heeehee..great photos of sweet discreet touching and nudging and flirting between them..what a frigging interesting thing it is to shoot the street. You never ever ever know what you’re gonna end up doing. Hot Potato with a slew of gay boys. Nicest kids in the world. How lucky was that?
Right on the Money Bob. Sounds like a band, Panos.
well, time to scan the donuts.
love ya all
kat~
Gracie..girl, i miss you. Who’s the one missing in action? Me or you? The late night ain’t the same without your sweet vowels dreamily checking in..i hope you’re good..hope you’re happily mixing metaphors somewhere blessed by your ethereal presence..
your friend
kat~
TODAY BOB BLACK is DA MAN !!!!!!
Viva CONVERSES ROUGES !!!
Be jealous Mr.PANOS because if you keep posting here ,pretty soon you will be like the amur leopards…
(to be perceived as a joke):)
Please, NO offense to the beautiful CATS…
KATIE…an amur tiger
“Hot Potato” !!!
Let’s call the essay you will submit here HOT POTATO !!!
My GRACIE is busy writing the BURN poems …
“The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.”
T. S. Eliot
TO ALL…
Please, wash your hands thoroughly ( if we don’t want to end up like amur LEOPARDS) No Joking.
Civilian…check out Converses Rouges..it’s a blast!
heh, Hot Potato..i like that a lot actually..hmmm
nice quote by TS Eliot..hope Your Gracie is coming back..boohoo!
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
kat
http://club.haiko.net/
All watch my trip progress below:”the Return from Las Vegas”
All please feel free to post on
Our CONVERSES ROUGES
Two weird things about human nature,
Conundrum one: why do we always want what we don’t have, but we don’t want to be forced to have what we didn’t ask for?… hmmm.
the web is the silver bullet to this conundrum, if you want more information it takes less than a French-fry of nutrition to exert the energy needed to move the mouse to click a link, it takes less than a sip of a chocolate milk shake to actually deliver some keystrokes into the google input box and click ‘go‘. If you can’t exert that much energy to find out more about any interesting term, then you’re likely to do nothing about it anyway when it is handed to you, maybe just stick to woofing down some big macs, at least it will keep your mouth occupied.
Conundrum two: Why do things we don’t like tend to grow on us? Why do the things we like right away (say a song or dare I say, an image) become boring, but things we don’t like at first sometimes begin to ‘grow’ on us?
Don’t really have any good ideas about this one, but safe to say the phenomena exists. maybe images grow on us because there is some merit to the image that is not obvious on the first read, maybe it’s just incidental to the actual initial message, something as simple as a visual rhyme between say the duplicity of a set of eyes and a set of bicycle wheels, don’t know really, but some images have staying power and they aren’t always the ones that we like at first, and are often ones that you might hear or say, hmm this image is starting to grow on me.
I hear u CIVI….
the Burn police is out there watching…
I will follow that leopards fate soon..
I know..
But didn’t someone said..
IT’S BETTER TO BURN OUT THAN TO FADE AWAY.???
oh I forgot who he was…:))
Must have been some kinda teacher in highschool..
:)))))
Corona for all…
Why do I keep getting the feeling that 1000 + photogs are anxiously clicking on their Burn bookmark several times a day to see if the names of the 10 EPF finalists have been posted yet? It’s like this current of redhot electricity is running beneath the surface, visible only when you turn out the lights and watch for the sparks. No one speaks of it but everyone thinks of it, even those of us who did not submit work to this DAH-inspired gift to the world of photography.
As one who has no vested interest in the results of EPF 2009, I send well wishes to all of those who submitted work this year. I too await the posting of the 10 finalists and trust that when those names appear, everyone will be gracious in their response. We are ALL winners here…
peace
Patricia
hi katie-cakes and civi-da man
thanks for making me feel use-full. hmmm, i dont really see BURN as a day care center or a freebie psychoanalytikk place but it’s free… free is good nowadays.
i have been feeling extremely tired and ummm… spent with NO money involved.
don’t you ever feel that way sometimes? when no one has ANYTHING to say that makes you feel better?
i dont think ive ever come close to the 22nd floor and hope that i never will,
i like people and life so much more. but it seems it’s takin a lot of energy to realize
that i can be TIRED and talk about it at the same time. but that’s what’s been going on…
it is taking a whole 99cents french fries (!) to take a picture
but i DID for about 3 hours yesterday of kids in the park and leaves and bugs
but i think i would have to eat about TEN whole big macs it seems, to write…
and panos, i aint burn police but i had much to say to you …las vegas :))) weather perfect.
but i havent eaten a single bite of the first bigmac yet
so to ALL, when you get this way:
what do you do?
what can somebody else say to get you out of your own friggin-slow-paced bad place?
do you shoot, write, eat or drink… or?
MY GRACIE…
“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.”
Gloria Naylor (African-American novelist and educator, 1950)
AFTER the results of the EPF 2009 we will be here for all of the photographers. We will have the trama center OPEN…:)
YES, As PAT said : ” YOU ARE ALL WINNERS” here and there………….
P.S take some vitamins, eat olive oil and drink little wine …and sex whenever possible…and laugh…laugh like there is NO tomorrow…
TO ALL…
Here MY two Euros…
DON’T TAKE YOURSELF soooooooo SERIOUS …
LOVE TO ALL
TO ALL ,
PLEASE WASH Your hands thoroughly …
Thank you
Hi Gracie
((((HUGZ)))))
Welcome to the human race, chica! Ya know, it’s not like all you have to do is get up in the morning and take a picture or write a poem. You have a whole ton of things that comes first. Your ton is different from my ton but a ton is a ton is a ton. We don’t always have the mental or physical or EMOTIONAL energy to get around to what actually feeds our soul. We give everything to the world and the world just sucks us dry. But i think it’s not how much you write or shoot from day to day or week to week but over the long haul. And over the long haul a week or a month or two months of being in a vegetative state is totally insignificant.
I used to wonder how artists and writers had so much time to sit around the bistros in Paris getting sloshed and still managed to kick creative ass. Then i found out they did a lot of drugs and drank a lot of coffee :) I carve out some time relentlessly. And if it doesn’t work out that way. If i can’t or just don’t want to, well, that’s good too. I leave it alone. Watch TV, hang out with friends, or, um, well, shop. Then when i literally start dreaming about photography, when that little worm starts turning turning, as it always does, then i know it’s time to get back to work.
Listen to what your body and your heart and your mind is saying, Gracie. If you need a rest, then for heaven’s sake, take it. We’re all here waiting for you. You’ll be back when you’re ready and feel strong enough again. Till then, take heart, the muse, like the tide, always rolls back in.
lovinkisses
kat~
Civilian
GREAT ADVICE, comforting words, brilliant and beautiful quote!
besos marinated in olive oil
kat~
ayys katie,
that is exactly the problem
‘a whole ton of things have to come first’
all i want to do is photograph or write
no energy to do either.
but hmmm, shop? ice cream?
ill give both a try…
you ARE my shore… thanks
i’ll be back
TO MY GRACIE,
Everyone WE need to FOCUS .WE need to send good energy to the BURN’S muse.
GRACIEEEEEEE, CAN YOU FEEL ITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT ?
P.S KAT , we got to stay strong , She promised she will be back …
WE LOVE YOU BABIE G. !!!!
“Why do I keep getting the feeling that 1000 + photogs are anxiously clicking on their Burn bookmark several times a day to see if the names of the 10 EPF finalists have been posted yet? It’s like this current of redhot electricity is running beneath the surface, visible only when you turn out the lights and watch for the sparks.”
AKAKY: Do you get that feeling?
AKAKY IRL: What feeling?
AKAKY: The feeling of redhot electricit running beneath the surface.
AKAKY IRL: No.
AKAKY: No?
AKAKY IRL: No.
AKAKY: Why not?
AKAKY IRL: Because your electricity’s been turned off, stupid, that’s why. Do you think you might want to start paying your bills on time? That way we can all feel the red hot electricity and turn the air conditioning on.
AKAKY: I thought things were looking kind of dark around here last night.
AKAKY IRL: Not having the lights on will do that, smart guy. Maybe you ought to call Central Hudson in the morning just for laughs and see about getting the juice turned on again.
AKAKY: I should, shouldnt I?
AKAKY IRL: You should. Definitely.
AKAKY: Okay, that’s what I’ll do. What do you think?
AKAKY IRL: Sounds like a plan to me. And why didnt you pay the electric bill in the first place, or should I bother to ask?
AKAKY: I forgot.
AKAKY IRL: You forgot…you know, I worry about you sometimes, bubba. It’s not natural for someone as smart as everyone tells me you are to be such a complete dolt.
AKAKY: Life’s unfair.
AKAKY IRL: Tell me about it.
AND now EVERYONE ,
BURN PRESENTS : THE CREST HOTEL by R.M DOBSON
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
Buddha
It took me 30 minutes… to watch the essay and I haven’t blinked since…
Akaky, complaining about the state of the sewers will get your electricity turned off every time.
Mike.
EP … who?
Panos, just saw a photo of you without the bandana on your head. Wow, you have hair. I had always assumed you were, errrr, balding, uhhhm, not that there is anything wrong with that, but … okay gotta run. See ya, peace.
… Tom,
I hope neither Anton nor DAH read this…
;-)
I know, I know, I’m screwed. :))
I live in MY ‘CREST HOTEL” ;
AND YES I am BOLD and beautiful !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
at the risk of taking this far astern, i wish to share David Foster Wallace’s 2005 commencement address at Kenyon College…which has recently, post his death, been churned into a small book…
it probably both more articulate and lengthenier (believe it or not) than anything i’ve tried to write or aruge here since the inception of BURN…something i was reminded again yesterday, sifting through the comments of The Crest Hotel…
for what’s it worth…
http://www.marginalia.org/dfw_kenyon_commencement.html
bob
Bob, thank you for that, excellent and something I’m always trying to explain to people and at which I usually fail unless of course they are already part of the crowd. My brother graduated from Kenyon btw, English Lit, loved it. Now he’s a nuclear engineer. Strange … but i understand. ;-))
When I read BOB BLACK
I feel that I can conquer the world.
When I read BURN
I feel that I am the WORLD !!!
P.S Young Tom, Nuclear engineer…Gobsmacked again and again and again
VIVA CREST !!
MR.HARVEY is back ,
and after the two days moving (short vacation) HE came BACK and He raised the BAR…
That means that whoever is short and wants to order drinks he or she is OUT of the game…
BURNIANS the BAR is raised… COOL …I am tall and Bold …YIOUPIIII.
VIVA CREST, CORONA, OUZO, MYTHOS, KAHUNA, AMSTEL, MERLOT
LOVE YOU ALLLL