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Originally Posted by recluse
Congratulations on using a hammer, Marc!
Fun, aint it?
How are the glasses working out?
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For some pictures (not suitable for those of sensitive predisposition) only
marginally less gruesome than x-rays of needles in scrotums...
No glasses:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2083172/IMG_1708.jpg
Normal glasses:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2083172/IMG_1690.jpg
Sunglasses:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2083172/IMG_1707.jpg
Just glasses by themselves (This photo SFW):
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2083172/IMG_1714.jpg
The glasses are good, excellent, though I'm only just getting used to them. It feels odd, dizzying, things not being fuzzy, and having my eyes actually attempt to focus on stuff. Sharpness. As a (hobbyist) photographer, everything looks...
real, fascinating, photogenic again.
A photographer,
Garry Winogrand, said,
"I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs". For me, I responded to that quote reflexively with
"I photograph to see what the world looks like". Photos seems to capture things, real things, reality in general, that my mind doesn't. In rare experiences I'm prone to saying things like "That looks real", or "This feels real". Most of the time I feel that whole Shakespearian feeling of just being a "player" on a "stage" - controlled, directed, artificial...and like everything in front of my eyes is just the scrolling of a TV screen. I'm not in touch. Photography gives me that sense of touch, with reality, back. The photos let me hold a moment until I can fully grok it, and then keep returning to it, and saying again, "It feels real".
All of this is a long way of saying that the glasses reduce some of that. Their sharpness makes things feel "real" more often; make them seem fascinating, no matter how quotidian. As Henry Miller said,
"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself". For me, the quotidian, the everyday object, the simple "golden" composition of basic shapes crossing,
in photos, can be indescribably beautiful (to me. As for my photos...not necessarily riveting stuff for others). The glasses start to make me feel that in little compositions framed just with my eyes while walking the dogs.
Also, I can read signs better.
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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
I hope it wasn't a FINGERnail. That's the kind of nail which is easiest to hit, in my experience.
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Originally Posted by recluse
How to use a Hammer:
Rule # 1: Always make sure someone else holds the nail.
Silly Deb!
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To be honest, my use of the hammer rarely involves nails. When it comes to home maintenance and repairs and renovations, my skill set is more strongly biased towards the demolition rather than construction side of things.
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Originally Posted by LCF
being extremely original and typing the "writing in this thread" message for probably the 234th time in this thread  |
At 235, we attach a skwirlz to your uvula and a time-space-anomaly to its backside so that every time you tear it from your mouth you actually find yourself reattaching it to that throat-top dangler.
It's a little Llounge-type humour.
Cheers,
Marc