Spin me a tale

[imomus]

I'm spending the day on ICE trains, getting from Berlin to Holland, then performing in the evening, wearing funny clothes and making stuff up.



I planned to give Click Opera a holiday today, but at the last minute I thought I'd post this photo and ask you, dear reader, to make stuff up yourself: a short (fifty words or so?) narrative related in some way to the picture.

I won't say anything at this stage about what the photo is, who took it, who's in it, where or why it came about. Think of it as a Rorschach onto which you can project whatever you like -- a rumination, a story about the characters, a joke, a piece of philosophising, a weather forecast, a sci-fi scenario, a haiku, a fashion report. Be creative, be kind, give me something interesting to read when my iPod crackles to life in the Dutch wifi!

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[imomus.livejournal.com]

Many of these are incredibly evocative and imaginative, I'm reading them at 4am in my Eindhoven hotel room (with NHK on the TV, which makes me feel like I'm in Japan rather than Holland) and enjoying them very much.

The image is a still from a 2004 documentary called Autumn on the Ob River. I can't link right now, but you can google the title. The director is Norwegian, and the film is set in northwestern Siberia. It's an anthropology film, not really for general entertainment.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Ah, ok, the director is Janno Simm, and the film shows the Tobolko family -- Khanty people of north-western Siberia -- and their efforts to live by fishing in the austerity that resulted from the break-up of the Soviet Union.