Oops, meant 'glass-half-empty' of course. What's the matter with me?
Doug
On 11-Sep-07, at 8:40 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Wow, hey, well Andrew I can see that (in a way) now that you put it
> that way, but did see the
> rusting' my first glance through/at.
>
> Hate to think I'm the glass-half-full guy here, though....
>
> Doug
> On 10-Sep-07, at 5:32 PM, andrew burke wrote:
>
>> How we read things so individually! Doug sees 'rusting letters'
>> whereas I
>> saw fabric covered design letters from the elegance of a bygone age -
>> revived today by many crafts women in their homes. Perhaps it is my
>> eternal
>> optimism colouring my thinking ...
>>
>> But I dug it, Peter, as usual.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>>
>> On 10/09/2007, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Well, 'brass,' maybe, Peter, but it looks more to me like rusting
>>> letters, rusting literacy, the rust of a dying civilization some time
>>> not too far off in the future perhaps....
>>>
>>> Sharp
>>>
>>> Doug
>>> On 9-Sep-07, at 12:02 AM, Peter Ciccariello wrote:
>>>
>>>> Brass trope dream
>>>> <http://cgi7.com/peterimages/brass-trope-dream.jpg>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> - Peter Ciccariello
>>>> http://invisiblenotes.blogspot.com/
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Douglas Barbour
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>>>
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>>>
>>> Someone to talk to, for God's sake, some-
>>> thing to love that will never hit back
>>>
>>> Phyllis Webb
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Andrew
>> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>> http://www.inblogs.net/hispirits
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/aburke/
>>
>>
> Douglas Barbour
> 11655 - 72 Avenue NW
> Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
> (780) 436 3320
> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>
> Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
>
> People say they have to express their emotions.
> I'm sick of that. Photography doesn't teach
> you to express your emotions;
> it teaches you how to see.
>
> Berenice Abbott
>
>
Douglas Barbour
11655 - 72 Avenue NW
Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
(780) 436 3320
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
People say they have to express their emotions.
I'm sick of that. Photography doesn't teach
you to express your emotions;
it teaches you how to see.
Berenice Abbott
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