For 4 or 5 days, it has been in my mind to do this, if this is to have any future at all.For anyone who doesn't know, I'll explain, as follows:
InEurope, there is a cable TV news channel called Euronews. Simple enough. Everyone gets it in their own local language.
Every hour, there is a little slot -too brief i.m.o. - in which we just literally see. They show footage usually from a place making headline news somewhere in the world on that day. Or just some event. However, what's different is that it is just unedited film of what is really happening.
The film is allowed to tell its own story, free of bias, free of the conditioning & limits that journalists & news producers always put between image & us. You look & you think.
As an example, think of how the Beslan school siege and massacre, or any suicide bombing in Bagdad may come across to you, if you didn't have the "help" of the news pros to tell you what happened. It often comes across like you are watching your own private film. It hits harder and is often much more 'truthful' and somehow less intrusive.
It is simply called "No Comment".
That is my idea, which I have to try now. It doesn't mean that I don't want comments! On the contrary. Rather, it feels like it's time for me, at least, to go silent. Let the photos I post do all the talking.
Nowhere Man goes Trappist. Is it even possible?
After the past days, anything is possible.
It's a challenge.If it doesn't work, I will simply vanish into the ether, which doesn't matter really.
So, that is my preface to the New Day, New Way'.
"Everybody Knows This Is Now-Here"....
For these 3, I make no comment.
And you, dear visitor and observer?
13 comments:
Since I have a blog with almost no words of mine, I hardly have the right to comment on your decision, but here goes: what led me to be a frequent customer of your blog were your pics, sure, but specially your words around them. I'm certainly going to miss them.
Oh DEAR! Got me all wobbly at the knees with emoção, sincerely! Got to be strong, though and see what happens, eh? At least for a while...
Hello. I don't know about this option. I don't know if it'll work. I suppose you put together very well writing and shooting, but some times it is nice to let people to this without help. But i'd mean mantain the format of image-text and then somtimes, make some only-text posts!
A picture says a thousand words
You need to do what you need to do, but why not do both. Comment when you feel like it, don't comment when you think it is appropriate. Best wishes on your new process!!
Hmm, do I see a dilemma coming over the horizon?
As much as I like to express in words, (moreover,this has done far more for me in my life than visual images), the capturing of what my eyes see hrough a lens has become important. While it's natural to give a verbal explanation - particularly for all those around the world who have no contextual references to Lisboa or Portugal, or sometimes even Europe - what really interests me most is the impression the images convey. Now, I'm wondering, for instance,where the "Camera As Bridge" set might have led without my comments.
Impossible to know, really. I'm also now thinking of what Jenny wrote about Sally Mann's work. Mann goes out on a specific limb and gets compartmentalised for it, particularly because it is public professional work. Today, the web has expanded the frontiers of the word , 'public'. We are all offering ourselves to the entire mass of humanity that has online access. So, the 'safe/unsafe' discussion, or people either hiding or revealing their true selves, or intentions. It is a very new world, and many of us, prisoners of our generation, upbringing, experiences, can find this new world confusing and at times dangerous. What about values? Morality? For me, as an above-mentioned prisoner, these issues are crucial. Because we see that the web can be very good for eroding values, morals, time, everything that has kept Judeo-Christian societies, for example, rooted together and gone much of the way to moving them along the road through the centuries to where they are today.
I'm speaking to Ana now, to say that I feel that it is to do with this last point that makes your fears grow. Notjust due to the www, of course,but it is involved in there somewhere, because it is a virtual place that is amoral, atemporal, relatively unrestrained. Perfect for perverts, and for perversion, corruption and all thatis worst in human nature. But also there is space for the best. A battle is going on, and there have already been too many victims (re.Marjan's sickening, depressing information for us last week).
I'm getting off the point now, and commenting far too much. Again. I would just like to know what these 3 photos evoke for people. I know what they do for me....
(LOL) I spent so long getting that off my chest -inspired by watching Blair speaking in LA half an hour ago? - that Kate & John arrived by a separate entrance without me knowing!
Kate, I agree with that. Kind of makes sense!
John, I think I understand you right, you mean I go with this idea,right?
So far, no comment has only extended to the 3 photos. What we have rather is another discussion!I am shutting right up now. Can anyone actually see the pics?
I'm going go & make us all some tea...
I have been commanded to comment on the photos so: let's see - birds, airplanes, oceans, flying, blue skies...the airplane one is incredible from a "great catch" point of view. The top one is pleasant. The bottom one is my favorite - I love the shape of the swallow-tail kite (or whatever the European equivalent is - is it the same one we have here in Florida? I'll ask my husband) and the buildings are interesting and evocative... NWM, satisfied?
Change that bird ID - barn swallow, according to my resident expert.
J'aime cette idée: "No Comment" et cette émission télé sur Euronews et Euronews en général
:)
First pic
You got the best light level, just perfect sea gulls on the beach, i love them, sometimes i stay and stay watching their movements except when something falls down:S
Second pic
An UFO?
Third pic
I feel the fragance of Portugal on this one, thoose little birds know better then we what globalization is all about.
Okay, I've answered your email. gave you my 2 cents worth.
also answered your comment on KLDP.
didn't read this post of yours. like jenny, i will only comment on the pictures.
1- Stunning capture of the gulls. The horizon makes my mind wander to fantastical places. And though there's so much movement, I find it very still.
2- Don't like it. Were you playing with a child's toy?
3- Good colour but what's with the flying theme? Where do you wish to escape to???
Now and Here. That who you are.
See ya later.
Jenny, couldn't be more satisfied! you're a real pal. Can't decide between 1 & 3, though. I think 3 also...
Emmanuelle, à vrai dire, je regarde de moins en moins la télé, mais moi aussi j'aime cette idée d'eux.
Nuno, parabens, o único à comentar apenas as fotos, nem mais nem menos, sem "pedido pago" nenhúm, obrigado!
Me too, I've spent so many hours gull-watching, they seem to hypnotise me. MANY diverse shots.
Edwin, I owe you 700 dollars, at least. And thanks for your candour. A refreshing "Don't like".
It seems the problem is with 2. A UFO? A child's toy. I'm off kids, remember?
I was playing in my Wendy House, which is 2kms from Lisbon Airport. This is a normal occurrence there. Asarethe pigeons & swallows through spring & summer. I wanted to juxtapose one bird against the other. No toys, no tricks. No quality either.
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