Thursday, February 21, 2008
Something New Every Day (04450013)
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Of the three b/ws surrounding Petticoat Lane, this is the one with whose tones I feel most relaxed.
We don't have these newspaper vending boxes - but then we'd need a lot of boxes to provide the numerous national titles.
There is a bit of a visual trick going on because, initially, it all looks very neat and geometrical but when one analyzes each component part one realises how they are not just utilitarian but not even strictly geometrical. However, the sum is greater than its parts! I'm not sure that I'm any closer to knowing what people read in these parts but I've been told in quite an elegant way.
Is it actually a cemetery for newspaper vending machines? It has a regimented feel to it due to the alignment of machine verticals to image edges.
'Is it actually a cemetery for newspaper vending machines?'
Something like that. There's perhaps a dozen of these machines piled up outside the warehouse of the local paper.
I like the geometry of the shapes of these newspaper boxes, the textures and the toanlities that bring you back to the center box. And of course that very subtle signage (and message) inside the center box, to "Look Inside!". Nicely seen.
Definitely not a British habit these, although one sees them very occasionally.
One of the great things about Stills are the random juxtapositions. I think that this makes a great pair with my BBQ shot below.
John has mentioned the tones - but are we missing a shock of vermillion colour?
There is something anthropomorphic about the central white box. An early robot design? I do hope it doesn't speak to customers...
Wonderful. I thought the right hand box was the most anthropomorphic with its tilted falorn head. This is so well cropped. Nice and tight just like the boxes squeezed in together.
'although one sees them very occasionally.'
When I was growing up, these were a common site on street corners. Now they are mostly relegated to grocery store entrances.
This does work well with the BBQ shot. If you could somehow manage to get a group of these out on that wharf, huddled around a BBQ, you would have a vision of a post-apocalyptic world ruled by newspaper vending machines!
Late to this. I agree -- with everybody!
We still have lots of these around -- I walk to the corner box most Sundays and put my quarters in. I'll likely take a closer look at it this Sunday.
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We don't have these newspaper vending boxes - but then we'd need a lot of boxes to provide the numerous national titles.
There is a bit of a visual trick going on because, initially, it all looks very neat and geometrical but when one analyzes each component part one realises how they are not just utilitarian but not even strictly geometrical. However, the sum is greater than its parts! I'm not sure that I'm any closer to knowing what people read in these parts but I've been told in quite an elegant way.
Something like that. There's perhaps a dozen of these machines piled up outside the warehouse of the local paper.
One of the great things about Stills are the random juxtapositions. I think that this makes a great pair with my BBQ shot below.
John has mentioned the tones - but are we missing a shock of vermillion colour?
There is something anthropomorphic about the central white box. An early robot design? I do hope it doesn't speak to customers...
When I was growing up, these were a common site on street corners. Now they are mostly relegated to grocery store entrances.
This does work well with the BBQ shot. If you could somehow manage to get a group of these out on that wharf, huddled around a BBQ, you would have a vision of a post-apocalyptic world ruled by newspaper vending machines!
We still have lots of these around -- I walk to the corner box most Sundays and put my quarters in. I'll likely take a closer look at it this Sunday.