Sunday, December 23, 2007
Yuletide Greetings From Tokyo
Comments:
Very appropriate - but after a while it sank in that this is in English. Who is it aimed at (apart from members of Stills)?
Perhaps there should be a couple seen embracing through the 'sculpture'. As it is the woman seen striding purposefully towards her next shopping assignment sets a Western note for Christmas. The trees rather remind me of the shot I took in Vienna - tall and slim.
A lot successfully compressed into the square format. I hope that there is lots of 'yule' in Tokyo and that you get to enjoy it!
I've seen one just like this in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. It does work very well in the square format -- I like seeing the people behind.
A nice sentiment for the season.
A very iconic message from the 70's and I really like the composition, but almost appears that is is 'Love I' with the lighting structure to the right. Your gray value is really good and imparts a strong sense of 'Steel' and gives a lot of weight to the scuplture. Nice.
I'd like to ask the sculptor why there is a negative carrot in the V rather than the obvious negative heart?
The image shows the environment and the lighting gives the sculpture a good 3D feel.
I'd have been in looking at detail, shapes, reflections, abstractions and ignored the whole and its environs, my loss.
Ho, now I've seen the carrot I find it difficult to ignore.
The sculpture is interestingly two piece.
I've seen similar outbreaks of the L word in Hong Kong. A nice short recognisable word for non-English speakers. Used well here - both monumentally and photographically.
For a little more info on the sculpture, see the wikipedia entry for Robert Indiana.
There's a great sense of scale here. The straight on shot that I would have been tempted to make would probably have suppressed the size of the work and taken it out of context.
This expresses very well the massive dimension. Maybe it is the medium grey, I don't know, but it wouldn't have been as effective in a lighter tone.
Went back to the Epson software? ;-)
Thanks for the comments and to Matt for the link. Remembered there were a few of these scattered around the world - though can't remember seeing the one in Singapore whilst living there.
Stephane: Vuescan and PWP combination. Had some time on my hand so caught up on my backlog of scanning and preparing for prints. Your prior curve recommendation when transposed to PWP quickly highlighted that I was being neither 'aggressive' nor 'flexible' enough with my own curves. This has been fixed and much learned over the last couple of days. Thanks
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Perhaps there should be a couple seen embracing through the 'sculpture'. As it is the woman seen striding purposefully towards her next shopping assignment sets a Western note for Christmas. The trees rather remind me of the shot I took in Vienna - tall and slim.
A lot successfully compressed into the square format. I hope that there is lots of 'yule' in Tokyo and that you get to enjoy it!
A nice sentiment for the season.
The image shows the environment and the lighting gives the sculpture a good 3D feel.
I'd have been in looking at detail, shapes, reflections, abstractions and ignored the whole and its environs, my loss.
The sculpture is interestingly two piece.
I've seen similar outbreaks of the L word in Hong Kong. A nice short recognisable word for non-English speakers. Used well here - both monumentally and photographically.
There's a great sense of scale here. The straight on shot that I would have been tempted to make would probably have suppressed the size of the work and taken it out of context.
Went back to the Epson software? ;-)
Stephane: Vuescan and PWP combination. Had some time on my hand so caught up on my backlog of scanning and preparing for prints. Your prior curve recommendation when transposed to PWP quickly highlighted that I was being neither 'aggressive' nor 'flexible' enough with my own curves. This has been fixed and much learned over the last couple of days. Thanks