>> Rob Talbot - Hot Ashes > >I've been having lots of fun imagining how the person who set this up >got it just right. I've often noticed the way ashes finish if no >breeze or well-intentioned fire extinguisher messes with them. >Selecting the wood so it would burn out and make the pattern would be >quite an amusement. > >Using some artsy filter in Photoshop would not be half as much fun. I wish I could claim some creativity here ... sadly it's just an "objet trouvé". All I had to do was point the camera, focus and fire. It's the top of somebody's black plastic dustbin (US= Trash Can?) on a frosty morning. >> Christopher Strevens - On the Serbian border >Sad how universal such places have become. Nothing here particularly >says Serbia. One part of me mourns the day when places accross the world were different: they are fast becomming the same. >> Yoram Gelman - Power Hungry >We see some conceit and >imagine that others will grok it and then, subjected to the lack of >imagination of the average viewer, discover that our conceit is just >ours. Ain't that the truth Emily. How many times have I taken a great abstract, that I think is fantastic ... only to discover nobody else gets it? Turns out it's just a self-indulgent picture ...
