flickrphotoflurrymassiveattack

[imomus]

I'm massive-attacking Flickr with a fresh flurry of photos today. Suggestion: watch the slideshow while listening to mp3s from Section Amour.

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[thetemplekeeper.livejournal.com]

In non-newspaper terms, how would you describe the modern Germany?

[thetemplekeeper.livejournal.com]

Actually, that question is a bit boring... do you think there is anything real behind appearances? (I'm feeling a bit Nietzschean this morning).

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Well, once I stood beside a CNN reporter. He was standing in a raincoat on a box outside Buckingham Palace, waiting for his cue, garishly lit. To hear those routine news reporter intonations coming from a TV is one thing, but to hear them coming from a man standing on a box in a spotlight, a man visible only in profile, relating in a stressed-yet-relaxed way to a camera while the rain drizzles on his head and make-up people fuss around out of shot... well, what's behind that? Literally, a patch of damp pavement with some trampled chewing gum, a blackbird spearing a worm, large amounts of bacteria, traffic noise, ghosts of history, curious tourists, power cables leading to a generator... And part of this spectrum of things going on is "the story" which he's rewriting slightly with each take.