Comments on: La Tortuga

By: Jeff Hladun

Jeff Hladun — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 19:38:09 +0000

That image of Panos stretching…it was something I saw him do countless times at Look3. This becomes a memory-shot for me. Part of a family album.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 04:57:37 +0000

David…

Have you thought of getting a dog from one of the animal shelters? Give a good old dog a chance of a new and better life with you guys…

By: david alan harvey

david alan harvey — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 23:44:07 +0000

MTOMALTY

that IS what we are going to do…only the inside …i think the result of super glue on our rental van might be a disaster…i think scotch tape on the inside with prints everywhere will do….today we got THE sound system…tomorrow the lighting and cheapo prints….we WILL pick up character….we are thinking of buying a dog…..

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:13:44 +0000

“Get your motor runnin’
Head out on the highway
Lookin’ for adventure
And whatever comes our way
Yeah Darlin’ go make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space

I like smoke and lightning
Heavy metal thunder
Racin’ with the wind
And the feelin’ that I’m under
Yeah Darlin’ go make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space

Like a true nature’s child
We were born, born to be wild
We can climb so high
I never wanna die

Born to be wild
Born to be wild”

STEPPENWOLF

By: Sidney Atkins

Sidney Atkins — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:48:09 +0000

AKAKY,

I knew you’d understand about the Edsel…

Yes, the ROK government-authorized romanization system for Korean currently in use is pretty ungainly and counter-intuitive for most English speakers, and after I posted that I realized that probably more than one person would see it and try to pronounce it the way you diid… however, 거북 is not pronounced like an “earth insect” (or greenie Volkswagen) would be, but closer to “cahw-boo(k)” in which the final consonant is a glottal stop with no aspiration or ‘air puff’ after the ‘k’.

Cheers,

By: tom hyde

tom hyde — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:22:19 +0000

Spanish lady come to me
She lays on me this rose
It rainbow spiral round and round
It trembles and explodes

It left a smoking crater of my mind
I like to blow away
But the heat came ’round and busted me
For smiling on a cloudy day

Skippin’ through the lily fields
I came across an empty space
It trembled and exploded
Left a bus stop in it’s place

The bus came by and I got on
That’s when it all began
There was cowboy Neal at the wheel
Of the bus to never ever land

By: pAtrIcIO m.

pAtrIcIO m. — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:49:15 +0000

Putting names to stuffs that someone love is from ’70s… a very hippy idea indeed. When you have to name this or that, you refered with a funny/interesting name.
So, what about this homework:

The camper: La tortuga
Leica S2 : …………
Panasonic GF1 : …………..
Wi-Fi spot: ………..
THE driver of the van: ……….

etc,
etc.

Safe trip to San Fran
Patricio, simply burnian.

By: Akaky

Akaky — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:25:13 +0000

Sidney, I would find that insulting, but I have no trouble seeing myself in an Edsel either. As for the Geobug, is it just me or does that sound like a new Volkswagen hybrid car?

By: a civilian-mass audience

a civilian-mass audience — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:29:54 +0000

“Turtle, oh turtle, stick your head out and show us!”
“If you don’t stick it out, we’ll roast you and eat you!”

WE’LL ROAST you and EAT you”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thank you SIDNEY!…:))) no further comment :)))

By: tom hyde

tom hyde — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 05:31:18 +0000

Okay, now it’s a real road trip, come what may … cool.

By: Sidney Atkins

Sidney Atkins — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 04:52:43 +0000

HOMAGE a los Tortugalleros (y a la Tortugallera),

‘Turtle’ in Korean is “Geobug” and I offer you the following Korean folk song:

거북아, 거북아, 네 머리 내 놓으라!
내 놓치 않으면, 구어 먹으리!

“Geobug-a, geobug-a. ne meori nae noh-eura!”
“Nae nohchi anheumyeon, gueo meogeuri!”

“Turtle, oh turtle, stick your head out and show us!”
“If you don’t stick it out, we’ll roast you and eat you!”

Cheers,

By: mtomalty

mtomalty — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 04:49:25 +0000

Why not get some basic rubber cement and decorate the outside of the turtle with prints
This way you have a rolling gallery,ready to go, wherever you stop;even if just for gas.

By: Sidney Atkins

Sidney Atkins — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 04:13:36 +0000

AKAKY,

Only one of those was actually a touring car.

However, I have no trouble at all envisioning you driving an Edsel.

By: Frostfrog

Frostfrog — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 02:06:00 +0000

In the unlikely event you find yourself with decent wireless, time to kill and nothing better to do, then I invite you to share a bit of my latest beach-community experience. For this time of year, the weather was unusually warm:

http://bit.ly/UYWMYd

By: Akaky

Akaky — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:53:45 +0000

I’m asking, Mr. Harvey, because right now this road trip is beginning to remind me of Bunuel’s The exterminating angel and I was wondering if there is such a thing as take-out sheep.

By: Akaky

Akaky — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:46:49 +0000

Clearly, it’s the RV’s fault. Hopelessly bourgeois. What you really need to make this thing work is one of these bad boys:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/akaky/sets/72157631779106629/show/

By: david alan harvey

david alan harvey — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:36:32 +0000

AKAKY

i just read your comment to the gang….laughter broke out of course…nervous laughter….as a writer i am sure THAT would be the best story of all..right?

however we WILL TRY…i promise

cheers, david

By: david alan harvey

david alan harvey — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:23:56 +0000

CHARLES

you are exactly right….at least exactly what i am thinking as well….

By: Akaky

Akaky — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:23:01 +0000

Just to satisfy my curiosity, do you plan to get out of California anytime before Thanksgiving?

By: Charles Peterson

Charles Peterson — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:18:26 +0000

DAH,

Maybe you just need to forget about the “book” and just enjoy the trip and work hard and what will come will come. Push hard but maybe without a pre-existing condition in mind (like the book is “this” or the book is “that”). Just shoot and then put the work away for a few months and come back to it and find surprises and be surprised how it may (or may not) fit in with what you’ve done already. That to my mind is getting loose….

Secretly wish I was hanging with you all.

Be safe,