Death Proves Life
by electrolost

Comment by CMessineo:
I LOVE this photo. It's brilliant. I would have chosen a different font though for the text.

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Comment by CapeSail:
Great old looking railway, nice symmetry.

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Comment by SandyP:
Oh noooo, not "Just" a snapshot of a son. Any photo of someone's beloved son is a masterpiece. And this one made me smile. He is a cutie! And what an expression!

Death Proves Life
by electrolost

Comment by posthumous:
Death Proves Life was started in 1977 by Tom Waits' little sister. She was only 14 at the time, but she loved to rock. She also became fascinated with the idea that she couldn't really be sure she was alive until she died. Morbid for a child so young, but her big brother had been taking her to cemeteries and making up stories about the people who were buried there. She couldn't help but notice that their stories were so much more varied and vivid than the lives all around her, even and especially her own life. She started her band with a couple of her disaffected classmates in an attempt to commune with those myriad magnificent dead. She turned their stories into songs, hoping that they could hear her, hoping that she could hear them. At age 16, she made her final album, "Slave to the grain," after realizing that her brother had just made up all those stories. For her the "grain" represented the direction her life was lumbering, but also the noise in the air, the noise that she used to think was the dead trying to speak to her, but now seemed nothing more than the blare of expectations, the fuzz of normalcy deadening her existence.

They found the suicide note taped to her mirror. Drawn on the bottom was her symbol for the constant noise that she couldn't get out of her ears: a swordfish trombone.

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Comment by Jutilda:
hee hee - looks like a little man. I'd crop it square and eliminate all of the carpet in the foreground.

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Comment by Blue Moon:
the proportion of the head to body is somewhat disturbing here

Death Proves Life
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Comment by ghonem:
very interesting...i like it a lot
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Comment by ASHISH:
could have done better

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Comment by sevilduvarci:
i like how shiny the edge of the knifee looks.

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Comment by UrfaK:
I really like the tones... lovely perspective..