I love your work cW. Some questions/comments: 1. Is the first image the leaf that surrounds a tomatillo? 2. Is the 3rd image a drink that you made? If so, what? 3. the 9th photo of the wall where the vines left their print is my favorite. I love the colors and the story it tells. Also, the framing of the old truck by the tree and the wall is great. Nice work 4. 10, 11, 12 all seem to be night photos. Did you use a flash? Also, the West End Grill never seemed so appealing. Wonderful images cW, great story telling and use of light and textures on the Macro and more micro sides. I look forward to seeing more.
and thanks for checking out the shots! Image one is indeed a tomatillo husk. It's great: really evocative of some of the mesh packaging one finds in the supermarket, in a backwards kind of way. It's also one of the most beautiful bits of detritus I've ever found. 2. Image three is the foam flecked ice left over from a glass of vegetable juice. Aglow with nutrients! I'm guessing the vibrant, luminous green comes courtesy of the kale/celery/parsley. I don't know of any cocktails made of such, but it sounds like a fun project. Move over, Bloody Mary, here comes the Green Giant? 3. The vine stencil on barn is a souvenir from N's family's place. Glad you like it! 4. I did use a flash for 10, 11, and 12, and given the limitations of the powershot, I find it necessary in most low-light contexts. Adjusting aperture and shutter speed hasn't yet yielded much for me besides blur and a sort of surreal pooling of light (which can be wonderfully trippy, in the right context, but doesn't offer much sharpness or fidelity of color). Fortunately, a blast of unidirectional light works perfectly for some situations! Thanks again for checking them out, and I'm grateful for the comments. I didn't mean to sound neglected, by the way ;) I'm actually totally okay with people absorbing non-verbal art and processing/responding to it in a non-verbal way -- although verbal is fun too. Our society is so logocentric that all other forms of discourse/response are sadly underdeveloped. In other words, I think we oughta be "dancing about architecture" a bit more often! Don't know what it'll look like yet, but hey, dance is one of the oldest, most primal forms of communication. So where should we start? The Arche de Triomphe, say, in Meringue?
As for celebrating architecture through dance, I should probably stick with structures and styles I know to start. The Duke Cathedral, say, in breakdance? I fully expect
that you will perfect
the Green Giant
so that I can inspect
For the Green Giant, what do you think? St. Germain? Green Chartreuse? Benedictine? I don't know if any of those really want to be the foundation of a cocktail. Gin could work, in tandem with one of them, perhaps. Celery, Kale, Parsley, apple. Hmmm....
As for the "green", I am always a sucker for Absinthe. I mean, green fairies? Come on, that's just cool. I call "not it" on being the first to video and display my "dancing about architecture". I nominate sounds_sound, after all it is his field of study. -at least partly.
Regarding the absinthe, hmmm... That might invite some fennel into the juicing mix. Might be a bit on the nose though
I enjoy dancing very much and I enjoy architecture but I'm not ready to jump in to these waters for all to see. Perhaps someday I will recite my interpretation in the privacy of your company.
If you do get around to your hair brained scheme, I would love to see it... while enjoying a Green Giant.