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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[(Anonymous)]

Fantastic show. I'm intrigued by the Gibsoneque distopic huge concrete space filled with chairs and tv's. what was that all about?

Rob

[imomus.livejournal.com]

All is explained here (http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1447260,00.html). Best art piece I saw in London this time. I got as much pleasure from the kurds' clothes as the humanitarian stories being spun, I have to admit.

[darksomnabule.livejournal.com]

i LOVE this photo! it's beautifully composed.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Arigato! If you're a Flickr Pro account holder you can see a big version (and check what cosmetics Flo Manlik uses) here (http://photos9.flickr.com/12736709_613585614d_o.jpg)>

lego

[petit-paradis.livejournal.com]

I'm intrigued by the lego stereo. are those bricks the soundspeakers?

Re: lego

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Wired reports:

"Since it first broke out of the toy box, Lego has turned up in everything from artwork to telephones. Now vacuum records is offering qmpo, a stereo minisystem available in Japan that's enclosed in the giant, colorful bricks. Every component - two 5-watt speakers, a CD player, a power adapter, and a remote - renders the construction toy's signature knob pattern in Lego-authentic ABS plastic. A standard jack takes audio input from MP3, minidisc, and other players, while optional CD holders, $30 each, add more blocks to the stackable set. For stateside use, plug qmpo into a garden-variety transformer.
qmpo: $300. vacuum records: +81 (3) 3335 8850, www.qmpo.com."

Re: lego

[imomus.livejournal.com]

But I think qmpo has gone out of business now.

Re: lego

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Some nice pictures of qmpo here (http://www.rakuten.co.jp/woodwarlock/431939/466242/).

[darksomnabule.livejournal.com]

cool--thanks! you know, i was able to see it without being pro, just with my free flickr account. by the way, i've been using smugmug.com and i love that even more than flickr. just in case you're interested in checking it out...no limits at all, no advert when you post using it. nice layout styles, reliable, blah blah blah.

[becki1111.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing the photos. I especially enjoyed "Chicpig", "Kafka" and "Palaischairs". The composition and color on that last one are striking.

I have the same Hitckcock postcard that is found in Kumisroomy in by cubicle at work...along with a million other pictures and images to keep me from going mad in the walled in artificial light. At least my cubicle is in the middle of a library...the smell of books helps immensely.

I've been using photobucket and shutterfly for posting my pics. If you are familiar with these, could you (or anyone else reading these comments) tell me if flickr or smugmug.com is better and why...

The exhibit from London looks and sounds amazing.

Re: lego

[petit-paradis.livejournal.com]

those boxes should come with momus music. is there a better way to listen to otto spooky?

[darksomnabule.livejournal.com]

well, i like smugmug because there is absolutely no limit, and you can post at a variety of sizes, from original to thumb and everywhere in between. it's got lovely album interfaces and you can make them private or public. you can also order prints, if you care to, and they are of high quality. it's not free--but for me, it's worth it, esp. since i am currently practicing with my new 8MP SLR and enjoy posting original sizes.

my experience with flickr is limited to a free account for use with blogspot. i don't like the ad that comes with it, when you post. perhaps that goes away when you are pro. nothing against them---i just really like smugmug.

[thetemplekeeper.livejournal.com]

Hello:

sorry to interject with a link that has little to do with today's blog, but here (http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0,6000,1478331,00.html) is Gunter Grass writing of the challenges facing German democracy today, which is certainly interesting reading. I wonder whether his ideas are common to many in Berlin.

[ohtedium.livejournal.com]

You always have a great abundance of photos to share with us. In the future, do you think you will be putting together a book of collected photos you have taken?

I just realized that this sounds like an interview question.

[becki1111.livejournal.com]

smugbug sounds more like what I am looking for.

I'll check it out more.

Thanks for your advice.

Did you do the picture in your icon? It is lovely.

[darksomnabule.livejournal.com]

good luck with whatever you go with :)
no, i didn't do my icon--i just swiped it from a site about my flower of choice :) but eventually, i will create my own icon.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

It's funny, I've just finished writing a book about other people's digital photos, to be published by Thames and Hudson in the fall. But there are no plans for a book of my own photos. Once the publisher of Index magazine suggested making a CD-ROM of my photos, but nothing ever came of it.

[kidplastik.livejournal.com]

i am loving your flickr, i will be and avid watcher! (and yes, that lego stereo looks incredible)

[lostin.livejournal.com]

Seeing Kafka as a tag made my day.

[scottbateman.livejournal.com]

That was my favorite, too. :-)

[(Anonymous)]

wah? I'm lucky the show has been extended til June 4th .. I was expecting it to be a Berlin asian market full of steamed buns and cheap fabric or something, but I'm lucky you gave me a heads up! since I moved south west, got stuck into work, and stopped buying Time Out, culture seems to have slipped off my radar. HMn. Nice one, Nick. truly appreciate it

Rob (one of these days I'll get myself a LJ, and then you'll see)

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I find it a little sad that Gunther Grass, the man who used to describe soups, snails and vaginal fizz bombs, now talks in these "newspaper terms" about life, referring to soup only as a metaphor, and fizz bombs not at all. He concludes "we should freely resist the power of capital, which sees mankind as nothing more than something which consumes and produces," but in fact his view is not much wider in this article, which takes a "newspaper perspective" on life. Well, of course, it's in a newspaper, why shouldn't it? But I am personally increasingly unconvinced that newspapers (or rolling TV news channels) are telling us anything real. The things they persistently exclude falsify their accounts, and their tone has become oddly shrill and stilted, full of intonations you hear nowhere except in a news report. A writer as great as Grass doesn't need to use this restricted code.

[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).

[anti-peace-riot.livejournal.com]

These are wonderful pictures. Kafka as a tag also made my day.

Amzing quality as well. What kind of camera do you use?

[pinkfoils.livejournal.com]

That's a lovely photo of Hisae- very "Relax for Girls" :)

[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.