Thursday, May 22, 2008
Man the barricades before it’s too late . . . (04720017)
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I keep on wondering what it was that was stuck over TOW AWAY.
I stay with the picture and yet I do not know why, can I be superficial and say I like it?
It took me a bit to work it out, too -- but it appears to be a rather anarchic mob scene with someone pushing over a police car -- artistic and sophisticated graffiti (a stencil?), despite its violent nature. Riveting -- and it makes the image.
Humerous, and attention getting. I am still working (thinking) on the bisection of the image with the relevance of the backgound. I think the even split of the photograph does not help this image.
It took me a while to get past the object being a UFO but I finally managed to turn it to a 45 deg view and found the rooftop fitting that denotes a US police car: but I am not sure that I would have found it if Christina hadn't said so.
I echo Robert's "I like" the photo but then a background like that will always appeal to me. Unlike Doug, I am not perturbed by the bisection as there are, in effect three layers so that one gets a receding effect. For all we know that wall may only be foot or two high but it looks like a 'private keep out' kind of wall.
What intrigues me more than the straight image are the questions raised.
'can I be superficial and say I like it?'
Sure ;-)
Christina, yes, it's a stencil, and a rather interesting one at that. There's an element of social realism about it particularly in the muscular figure tossing over the car.
John, I first saw this as a UF0 (thought I had another robot picture in the can), but when I stopped to look at it, I realized it was something else.
This image has started me thinking about the architecture of unrest. I recently watched a documentary about the redesign of Paris after the revolution; those broad avenues take on a more sinister tone when you know they were designed to facilitate using artillery on the masses. It starts to make one wonder about the urban design of one's own capital city. Might make a fun book.
We are having a lot of textural based images.
The background supports the text to paint the picture of the environment. I cannot make out the graphic but it makes the text more interesting. The split is OK by me.
Napoleon employed Haussmann to create the new Paris, the wide streets were to make barricades difficult and prevent further Parisian rebellions. They seemed to have them every few years, some things never change!
"urban design of one's own capital city". The streets of Tokyo were hardly designed for army mobilisation. However, they are most suited for a pair of oba-chan walking two-abreast and talking about not much in particular whilst oblivious to the jam they cause behind them.
There are cars in the distant which contradict the instruction on the wall. The graphic is well placed and most suitable. The prefab building could almost be military which on first look I convinced myself that this was where the shot was taken (the title added a little too). I read the bottom line as 'Military Zone'. Given all that this just works for me - but how could you not like that milky backdrop irrespective of what it contains?
The backdrop is certainly enjoyable (but is that boat sinking?), but I'm not convinced about the whole. Perhaps I just don't find the graphic quite enough. I want to see more around the foreground. What is the 'zone' like etc.
It does make you wonder about the person/people who made the graphic.
'but is that boat sinking?'
Nearly. It's a 40+ year old student housing block in need of desperate repair. It does look a bit like a houseboat, doesn't it?
I must admit, the background is at least half the photo for me; I would have been tempted even without the graphic on the barrier. The shallow DOF was a conscious choice, as was the nearly down the center framing.
The waste-high barrier and its counterparts 'wall' off an empty lot. From the look of the surrounding buildings - universal and purposeful in their decrepitude - the developer must be waiting for leases to expire before tearing everything down and throwing up larger buildings.
'It does make you wonder about the person/people who made the graphic.'
It's a university town, albeit a conservative one. Four year radicals abound none the less.
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I stay with the picture and yet I do not know why, can I be superficial and say I like it?
I echo Robert's "I like" the photo but then a background like that will always appeal to me. Unlike Doug, I am not perturbed by the bisection as there are, in effect three layers so that one gets a receding effect. For all we know that wall may only be foot or two high but it looks like a 'private keep out' kind of wall.
What intrigues me more than the straight image are the questions raised.
Sure ;-)
Christina, yes, it's a stencil, and a rather interesting one at that. There's an element of social realism about it particularly in the muscular figure tossing over the car.
John, I first saw this as a UF0 (thought I had another robot picture in the can), but when I stopped to look at it, I realized it was something else.
This image has started me thinking about the architecture of unrest. I recently watched a documentary about the redesign of Paris after the revolution; those broad avenues take on a more sinister tone when you know they were designed to facilitate using artillery on the masses. It starts to make one wonder about the urban design of one's own capital city. Might make a fun book.
The background supports the text to paint the picture of the environment. I cannot make out the graphic but it makes the text more interesting. The split is OK by me.
Napoleon employed Haussmann to create the new Paris, the wide streets were to make barricades difficult and prevent further Parisian rebellions. They seemed to have them every few years, some things never change!
There are cars in the distant which contradict the instruction on the wall. The graphic is well placed and most suitable. The prefab building could almost be military which on first look I convinced myself that this was where the shot was taken (the title added a little too). I read the bottom line as 'Military Zone'. Given all that this just works for me - but how could you not like that milky backdrop irrespective of what it contains?
It does make you wonder about the person/people who made the graphic.
Nearly. It's a 40+ year old student housing block in need of desperate repair. It does look a bit like a houseboat, doesn't it?
I must admit, the background is at least half the photo for me; I would have been tempted even without the graphic on the barrier. The shallow DOF was a conscious choice, as was the nearly down the center framing.
The waste-high barrier and its counterparts 'wall' off an empty lot. From the look of the surrounding buildings - universal and purposeful in their decrepitude - the developer must be waiting for leases to expire before tearing everything down and throwing up larger buildings.
'It does make you wonder about the person/people who made the graphic.'
It's a university town, albeit a conservative one. Four year radicals abound none the less.