finally….springtime…i do not know about you, but for me spring just does not come quite quick enough….spring brings hope and promise and well, just warmer weather is just fine with me….and spring is just the time to clean house….throw out all the junk one accumulates over the winter…both physical and psychological ….time for us to begin anew….this spring brings challenges for all of us….with the lovely green of spring , this year brings us to face a world where we might all just have to do with less….
wherever i go now photographers are flat out scared…fearful of the future….businesses are closing down everywhere…magazine circulations have dropped leaving little money for assignments, galleries are not selling as before, advertising agencies no longer have big budgets for photography, and newspapers are cutting their photo staffs drastically, if not going out of business entirely….i do not know one single professional photographer who is not affected by our global financial crises….
at the very same time i see amazing work being done…one way or another, the best will thrive in the long run….photographers and agencies who can move with stealth will move forward…those with too much overhead will have to do serious “spring cleaning” in order to survive….this is our new reality…
as i start now to look through the 1,029 entries that came in for the Emerging Photographer Fund grant, i am so so impressed with the high standard of work being done by so many….a truly staggering tour de force of worthy work was submitted to me here on BURN…..to choose only one seems right off the top somehow unfair, since i would so love to help so many more…..i am not the chooser, and i am pleased to not be the chooser of the recipient for this grant because i would be very hard pressed to make a decision among so many worthy photographers…i will do all i can to at least give those who do not receive this funding at least as much opportunity as i can give them with some solid exposure here on our forum in the coming months…
do i see a solid future for these emerging photographers as we go through these difficult times?? of course i do…hard times befall almost every generation…and harder times than these to be sure….now is just the time to share…band together…for mutual benefit and creative growth….and we must all throw away what we do not need which is historically what led the citizens of Valencia, Spain (above) to create the spring Fallas…
so many photographers and so few resources to finance them as professionals will lead many to search for other sources of income….however, the true visionaries will do just fine….and it has always been so…..
how do you see it?? bad times, or just time to clean house???
andrew b,
teehehehehe, tis not me butterflies around you makin you grin.
must be bob’s hiccups or yours in tune to mike b’s ringtone of acoustic mad world…
sleep well… oops take sum white pills, just a couple, white bottle not the amber
above the sink right next to katiecakes’ wad o gum
(glad you had fun…)
gracie….imagination of bobbing golden curls laughing and diverting…more grins
don’t cover your eyes with your hair – touch your soul and ours with your photographs!!!
it is the butterfly words indeed that made me grin…and bb’s hiccups were lost in the acoustic ringtones of us all…
white pills…hmm, an idea…but what of the morn?
Andrew B
Sometimes good company goes where good words simply cannot. Some nights he air is cold, the sky is black, the silence looms large. Words can be brittle and coarse, paying objective witness to things better put to bed like naughty children. That’s when wordy bubbles and bubbly words, gentle smiles, a bit of purely subjective warmth and gentility can ease a world of hurt.
bestest code breaking on that wad of gum, Graciekins, it’s all written there in a fold of peppermint pattiecake..says uoy evol i..
back to scanning for me..take care Andrew, Gracie..
andrew,
you must have had a lot of fun… to miss and feel lonely walking the night among weeds of thoughts of friendship, laughs, similar passions born a few hours old… i am shamelessly jealous…
funny (might not be so) how much his precious time spent spitting nicely to douse a spring fire when beyond a few feet away such weeds (or so you think) of thoughts of nice things flourish from projects like this, on dark nights like this, across dark and cold seas, beyond land, beyond me
katie-missie, UOY EVOL I… what language is that? universal?
i do too.
night duty over… zzzz
smiles… butterflies… you… all… me… zzzz
Jan
I read your heartwrenching account. It takes me to a wretched world but to one of human sharing, nurturing, surviving. Not all stories bear telling. Every day on the street i am faced with the choice of telling or withholding. If i tell, to what end? If i withhold? For what reason? I am not a professional at the level of others here. I have never been to the places you’ve been. But i have seen things here and know of so much that shocks, devastates, should be told. I don’t know what i would have done if i had gone to shoot bead boats and encountered humans living in a state of such staggering injustice. We think..*biting my lip as i recall*..that this stuff goes on in god-forsaken corners of the world. But i remember working nights in a Greek diner in NJ..i remember the Costa Rican dishwashers locked up in the diner for Thanksgiving when the diner was closed so they could deep clean the place. And i mean locked up. They slept in the basement and they cleaned while the owners were enjoying the day with families and an abundance of stuff to thank God for. What if there was a fire? It would have been a slaughter. I went there and called out to the guys outside the bathroom window, handed them turkey, apple pie and beer through the slits in the glass. I remember going to a broken-down wreck of a shack on the highway where a bunch of Bangladesh and Costa Rican dishwashers and bus boys lived while they were ‘employed’ at another diner. The conditions were atrocious. i remember still after all these years the darkness, the stench, the miserable conditions. But even if i had been a photographer at the time, could i have told the story, should i have, would i have? Absolutely not. The danger to them, the danger to me would have been swift and very real.
I know Greek diners on the highway in NJ do not relate to your experience but it’s the closest i have to a story that surely bore telling and yet required my lips to be sealed, really till now, as i tell it.
Jan, the respect you paid your companions and the pain you took into your gut and that even now haunts you is very great. i can’t imagine doing what you did any differently. There is no devil down below. He is here on earth and he is us.
It’s odd, isn’t it that we can be assaulted and brutalized and yet our camera stays with us, a part of us like our arm or hand.
Your account was very moving.
i don’t know quite what else to say…
kathleen
Gracie
lovely post..you say it like no one else can..you’re like champagne fizz indeed…sweet dreams luscious poetess :)
zzzzzzzz
katie
well said andrew b.
the first bit (on daria’s thread) anyway — the rest, you kids are speaking a different language. :)
IT’s our party and we love it
It’s our BURNing and we are rolling!!!!
MY GRACIE
you are bubble -cious, oh! so luscious:))
KATIE
you are shamelessly genius, my gosh so precious:))
ANDREW B
you became judicious!
SPACECOWBOY
looking so adventurous!
PANOS
ai,ai ai, contumacious!
HAIK
yes, you are auspicious!
J. GLADDY
mighty propitious!
JARED
feeling capricious!
dearest Plato,
Katie wrote that we can bring ouzo, so here you have it…
Let’s blame Katie today
BURN is SO salacious and I feel lascivious but I am so mendacious!!!
LET’S STAY AWAY FROM NOXIOUS!!!
I WANT TO KISS YOU ALL…AND I WILL DO THAT ONE DAY…yes!!!!!!!!!
I’ll write you a separate email …
Somehow I feel too sober for this part of the blog right now
:-)))))))))))))
Good morning yall!!!
I have some aspirines here btw.
Lassal are u a LADY philosopher ??
Please don’t drink aspirines, I got you ouzo
LASSAL don’t write a separate e-mail…
That’s the place to be…
But, if you have time I have to make a correction…(SEE TIMES AND TIMING)if and when u have time.
Lucky YOU…Perpignan!!!!!!!!!!!!
KISSES
darlingest dunno
ouzo-to-you-too
hey, Civilperson, did you ever hear Johnny Winter cover Dylan’s Highway 61? hotdamnman!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8siLZ4zNbY&feature=related
(pppssssft…the only thing i’m a genius at is sticking the proverbial foot in the proverbial mouth, heh)
night for day:
katie 4 u
AMAZING KATIE…
Greek dinners…it’s weird but I wanna give you the biggest hug EVER…
“i don’t know quite what else to say…”
I am waiting for your book!!!
ZZZZZZZ NOW
Because “Your babies” need some “green” …You know what I mean!!!Western union again??
oh dunno..just let’s say spanokopita :))
Civilian..wanted to tell you, the day of the earthquake, my ‘baby’ was in Italy..a terrible fright for me and i couldn’t call her because she had forgotten to prepay her cell phone in Madrid..luckily all is well..
and yes..i am in terrible need of horizontal zzzzzz’ing but am doing some gorgeous scans..
later and thanks for all of YOU!
k/
I work with Red Cross…Too much pain one soul can bare!!
If I see your “baby” I will give her spanakopita:)))
that’s why I feel that we have to celebrate every minute , every second that we are “HERE AND THERE”
EVERYONE CELEBRATE !!!
KAT- Scan-zzzing
hahahaha..you just make me smile, smile, smile..
besos felices para ti..
HERVE
can you translate The above about asbestos…?
Or do you speak French?
By the way : You are so right ( post Daria’s)
When is your book coming out?
MR. HARVEY wrote,
“Carlan deserves all the support he can get…”
What about signatures, I am American too..I wanna sign… that’s my country too
Let’s move our civilian ashes!!!
Please, YOU the 99% out there if you have something in mind don’t be silent…
Silence is DEATH
THANK in advance for your COOPERATION
ALL….
off to the beach..Carolina shore..to do NOTHING….birds, dunes, sea, weather….to do EVERYTHING….
back here by tomorrow, or well, whenever….thanks for the vacation……
peace, love…david
DAH
right back at ya…
PLATO,
It’s your PARTY and you can go!!
It’s your shore and you can flow!!
Kisses to your family and to your girlfriend and to your bald head that gives us so much HAPPINESS
MAY the good WINDS be with You…
Civilian
apologies for this here darn delayed reply,
ya see, out here time is like a piece of elastic,
one earth hour is but a brief moment…
Fact is, i’ve just been ’bout 20 minutes, out doing a space walk,
(practical more than celebratory) as I needed to re-attach a loose canopy screw
after the long return voyage…
anywayz…
Civi,
what can I say!
what a welcome home!!!
Serendipity my good friend, Serendipity…
happy as a lamb in May that ya picked up the vibrations,
tip ma hat to ya, credit where credit’s due,
it’s a beautiful thing to send salutations to all the EPF dudes and ladies.
Fine as creamy gravy.
If truth be told, I kinda gotta hankering for the ol black & white version,
1963, Johnny looking all fresh,
raising hell – YEAH!
Now to the space booty!
Civi,
(and all the Philosophers)
that’s one heck of a possy!
way way back, when i got ma first photography book
(well it was ma second but no need to split hairs
on this matter) and old friend introduced me to the
world of Madame Yevonde a true pioneer of photography,
a society/ personality portrait photographer,
in the early 1930′s she began experimenting with color
thanks to the short lived ‘Vivex’ technic,
talk ’bout back in the day…
Some time about 1935 Madame Yevonde began a project, a project about
Greek Goddesses! no less!!! you see Civi, you see! in appropriate costume
and surrounded by appropriate objects. Unfortunately my copy of this book is
not to hand (NASA are kinda fussy ’bout personal baggage) but
I’ve found a few images from the series.
Heck if i could ruffle ya hair and give ya a slap on the back,
hell, maybe you should do it for me, get the feeling, feel the sensation…
but heck! enough of ma yakking,
let me introduce:
Mrs Richard Hart-Davis as ‘Ariel’
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/largerimage.php?search=sp&sText=yevonde&page=4&rNo=39
Lady Bridgett Elizabeth Felicia Henrietta Augusta Poulett as ‘Arethusa’
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/largerimage.php?search=sp&sText=yevonde&page=5&rNo=43
Gertrude Lawrence as the Muse of Comedy
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/largerimage.php?search=sp&sText=yevonde&page=1&rNo=3
and
Madame Yevonde – Self Portrait
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/largerimage.php?search=sp&sText=yevonde&page=1&rNo=6
put THAT in ya pipe and smoke it!
Yeeee haaaawwww!!!!
“Lassal are u a LADY philosopher ??”
CIVILIAN
Opinions as to my gender (and age for that matter) for some reason seem to differ wildly.
As to if I am a philosopher … I do not think so. Using wrong side of the brain to think about abstract ideas for too long …
But then again, do not forget what DAH wrote to me a while ago: that the way I say that I am and the way that I actually am seem to be two different things …
:o) guess it does not really matter after all :o)
My personal philosophy: only what you actually DO counts. Everything else is unimportant.
Cheers,
Lassal
What should I find under times&timing?
Sorry, that one was not for Bodo … did not check the Name.
Civi,
Yaahhoooooooo weeeeeeee!
what a welcome home!
apologies for the delay…
ya see, out here time is elastic,
one hour earth time is but a moment for me…
matter of fact i’ve been out on a space walk
for about 20 minutes, that’s all,
(practical rather than celebratory)
fixing a loose screw on ma canopy
anywayz, i’m back with ya now,
Serendipity, serendipity…
happy as a lamb in May that you picked up on ma vibrations
tip ma hat off to ya, credit where credit’s due
it’s a beautiful thing, to send out salutations to all the EPF dudes & ladies,
fine as creamy gravy.
If truth be told, i still hanker for the black and white version,
1963, Johnny looking all fresh and fired up!
Hell yeah!!!
but i’m all a yakking here and I got this space booty for ya.
well, it’s also for all them there philosophers,
I reckon they might have an interest in this one too…
Long, long time ago, heck before i’d even been into orbit,
no tell a lie, i’d already had that privilege,
anywayz,
i received as gift, my first photography book.
well it was ma second, but no need to split hairs here…
A certain Madame Yevonde. Let me tell ya, she was a pioneer
of photography back in them there 1930′s…
so, yes, she was a pioneer, working with color, Vivex they called it.
She was all kooky an experimental…
Anyhow, she did a project around 1935 based on Greek Goddesses no less!
Ya see Civi this is for you, you, you.
Heck if i could reach out an ruffle ya hair all friendly like and
give you a god ol slap on the back, well heck, that’s what i’d do right
now. Maybe you could do it for me, feel the sensation…
so, she made a whole series ‘Goddesses and Others’ and if only i had that
book to hand, but NASA are mighty touchy ’bout personal baggage on board an all…
anywayz, I found a few here examples,
so, introducing MADAME YEVONDE – THE GREEK GODDESSES…
Lady Bridgett Elizabeth Felicia Henrietta Augusta Poulett (now, ain’t that a mouthfull) as ‘Arethusa’
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/largerimage.php?search=sa&sText=yevonde&page=6&LinkID=mp06547&role=art&rNo=55
Gertrude Lawrence as Thalia the Muse of Comedy
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/largerimage.php?search=sa&sText=yevonde&page=1&LinkID=mp06547&role=art&rNo=3
Mrs Richard Hart-Davis as ‘Ariel’
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/largerimage.php?search=sa&sText=yevonde&page=6&LinkID=mp06547&role=art&rNo=50
and a self-portrait, Madame Yevonde herself (talk ’bout old skoooool)
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/largerimage.php?search=sa&sText=yevonde&page=1&LinkID=mp06547&role=art&rNo=6
YEEEE HAAAAWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All,
The Bayeux-Calvados war correspondents prize, call for candidates http://www.prixbayeux.org/index.php?id=141&L=0&L=1
Best, audrey
A CIVILIAN-MASS AUDIENCE
I owe you an apology. I now see that you and your postings are a gift to this community. You are creating an oasis of peace in the midst of what can sometimes feel like a war zone here on Burn. Thank you for YOU.
peac
Patricia
Patricia
(((hugz)))
Patricia…
Would love to talk to you…this is my email address, whenever you have time, send me a note…and I’ll be there :)
bodobose@gmail.com
Hugs back at you, Kat.
And Bodo, I’ve just sent you an email. Look forward to our talking.
My special thanks to Panos for your emails…
Patricia
Dearest LASSAL you are such a dunno!!
I would like to know if it is possible, if it is not going to be such a hassle ,my dearest Lassal,
ARE YOU A FREAKING LADY???? That’s all I am asking !!!
Times and Timing: I have a huge posting .109 names (BURNIANS) next to your names is the greek philosophers
name, according to your PSYCHO profil (laughing). I did the profil, one dyslexic civilian, non photographer
(SO much laughing)…LIKE a Greek ancient comedy…(kisses)If u have time I need an aspirin too!
Now to the MOTHER OF ALL,
To my DEAREST OF ALL,
TO MRS. PATRICIA LAY-DORSEY
“I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.”
Richard Bach
AS I wrote before you are my inspiration and my strength. It’s my honor . THANK YOU
Your website by the way is marvelous!!! May I suggest a baby cup of ouzo?
Don’t worry!OUZO on Panos and Katie ,please:))
TO MRS. PATRICIA LAY-DORSEY,
To my DEAREST OF ALL,
Now to the MOTHER OF ALL
“I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.”
Richard Bach
AS I wrote before you are my inspiration and my strength. It’s my honor .
Your website by the way is marvelous!!!
THANK YOU, THANK you
Guess I’ve never been a “FREAKING LADY” …
Sorry.
THANK you my man. MY apologies for my frustration.
See, the level of My testosterone is TOOO high.
:)))
Lasalle is a very rare male first name and a very popular surname (source: 1990 U.S. Census).
like Abele is a very rare male first name and a popular surname (source: 1990 U.S. Census)
like Audrey (\a(u)-drey, aud-rey\) is a feminine and masculine given name of Old English origin meaning “noble strength”
E.T.C, E.T.C
LOVE U all
Thales of Miletus … I see.
I like that one, even if I am not into direct politics at all… Although Thales and I seem to share the same view on marrying. And to try to get as many explanations off some god’s shoulders and into natural laws would be standing on my agenda too.
So: yeah! I feel comfortable with this part. Thanks!
Btw, … oh well. Time will tell anyway.
Take care of your hormones my friend.
Out with the dog,
L
Somone did repost the link to our selfportraits lately somewhere here if I well remember …
Just a hint.
Things are quiet around here, so I’ll share with you a memory of my dad, Jim. Every Friday and Saturday evening of his later years were spent in the local British Legion club. After one such excursion (in his 80s) he found his way home only to find that his front door key would not open the door. After much fumbling he was surprised to find someone opening the door from the inside. “What are you doing in my flat!” said Jim.
“It’s not your flat, Jim” said his neighbour, “You live upstairs”. Classic. I miss him.
Mike.
Mike R,
This happens to me sometimes, I guess it’s the ouzo.
OK !!! I buy TWO Rounds tonight, one for me and one for PAPA JIM.
TO JIM ( Mikes R’s DADDY) VIVA GEIA MAS !!!!!!!!!!!!
Lassal, You are so right!!!
WHERE IS DAVID B??? and Tor Capa???
Are u OK, GUYS??? WE miss youu !!!!!!!!!!
Thanks Civilian, I’m sure that Jim would appreciate it. Remind me to tell you of when the man in the lower-floor apartment “died”.
Mike.
When you will come to your home in Greece you will tell us all the stories. I COUNT on YOU
Patricia..
Special thanks and kiss for your
“acceptance”..
You teach me a lot..
See u soonest up in Look3….
Reunion!!!!
Civilian…
Mike R…
Is the greatest man around..
Period!:))))
Look3!!!
It seems manyare going. As must must must all connect one eve…and burn.
DAH enjoy the shore, I say that even though I know it needs not be said to you. I wish I had a day of 2 for simple hammering of nails or fixi g of things and sunrises over water.
Have had my fill of airplanes today, and not yet home….perhaps this margarita will help :)
Good light to all
a.
ANDREW B! :))))
quick note, because I AM SO WOBBLY TODAY ;)))….limber of hair, stubborn of skull, wine-bottled pooped ;))….but god damn, it was SUCH A PLEASURE to talk and drink with you….but i guess it really became my bottle instead of OUR bottle ;)))))…..but, cant wait until u return to meet the 2 better photographers/thinkers/cool people ;)))))
yes, i remember all the hugs…i guess yes, u can reveal to Burn the REAL Bob Black ;)))>..
hugs
ALL:
what a great pleasure to meet Andrew last night….and even though they (he and Berube) got me to ‘write’ a drunken post last night (about photographs, songs and hairs, which i think is BURRIED deep in burn…I WONT tell u where it is ;)) )….after helping Berube edit for his upcoming exhibition (yes, David, i edited 60 plus pics into 10….so, i can do a short edit ;))) )….we went to a waterspot….
ok, no poetry today, im exhausted….but just sending love and wibes to andrew, mike, david, SPACE COWBOY, CIVILIAN, Panos, Herve and all the rest of Y’ALL….
soon, you’ll get a bob black text…but that is a surprise for later ;)))
so, MUSIC:
for ANDREW, PANOS, DAVID, COWBOY, CIVILIAN AND BERUBE…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xMvw9lCOBw&feature=related
HUGS
B
Civi, all…
3rd time i’m trying to send this, wierd Gremilns out there, first time my ‘puter system crashed,
second’s lost in space…
what a welcome home!
apologies for the delay…
ya see, out here time is like elastic,
one hour earth time is but a moment…
matter of fact i’ve been out on a space walk
(practical rather than celebratory)
fixing a loose screw on ma canopy
anywayz, i’m back with ya now,
Serendipity, serendipity…
i’m happy as a lamb in May that you picked up on ma vibrations,
tip ma hat off to ya, credit where credit’s due, it’s a beautiful thing, to send out salutations to all the EPF dudes & ladies, fine as creamy gravy.
i still kinda hanker for that black and white version though,
1963, Johnny looking all fresh and fired up!
Hell yeah!!!
but i’m all a yakking here
and i got this space booty for ya.
well, it’s also for all them there philosophers,
reckon they might have an interest in this one…
Long, long time ago, heck before i’d even been into orbit,
no tell a lie, i’d already had that privilege,
anywayz,
i received as gift my first photography book. well it was
ma second, but no need to split hairs here…
A certain MADAME YEVONDE.
Let me tell ya, she was a pioneer if ever…
of photography back in them there 1930′s
so, yes,a pioneer, working with color, Vivex they called it.
Experementing…
Anywayz she did a project around 1935 based on Greek Goddesses no less!Ya see Civi this is for you, you, you.
Heck if i could reach out an ruffle ya hair all friendly like and give a god ol slap on the back, well heck, that’s what i’d do right now. Maybe you could do it for me, feel the sensation…
anywayz she made a whole series and if only i had that book to hand,
but NASA are mighty touchy ’bout personal baggage on board an all…
anywayz, I found a few here examples,
so, introducing MADAME YEVONDE – THE GREEK GODDESSES…
Lady Bridgett Elizabeth Felicia Henrietta Augusta Poulett as ‘Arethusa’
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/largerimage.php?search=sa&sText=yevonde&page=6&LinkID=mp06547&role=art&rNo=55
sending a few more as a seperate transmission -
Houston y’all might wanna twist some dials and punch some keys
(that’s tech speak for help)
YEEEE HAAAAWWWW!!!!
MADAME YEVONDE – THE GREEK GODDESSES…
Gertrude Lawrence as Thalia the Muse of Comedy
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/largerimage.php?search=sa&sText=yevonde&page=1&LinkID=mp06547&role=art&rNo=3
MADAME YEVONDE – ‘THE GREEK GODDESSES AND OTHERS’
Mrs Richard Hart-Davis photographed as ‘Ariel’
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/largerimage.php?search=sa&sText=yevonde&page=6&LinkID=mp06547&role=art&rNo=50
Madame Yevonde
by Madame Yevonde
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/largerimage.php?search=sa&sText=yevonde&page=1&LinkID=mp06547&role=art&rNo=6