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03/13/2015 11:33:02 AM |
Your story works so much better on your website blog.
It's a brave subject and you created a good pace for the viewer. It reminded me of a French expression:
"métro, boulot, dodo" a wonderfully succinct way of saying that you live to work. Métro refers to a subway commute, boulot is an informal word for work, and dodo is baby talk for sleeping. Same old routine, same old routine.
The question in my mind was why you chose B&W and color and I feel that I am missing the point.
There is also a big difference between processing which could be intentional but again, I am at loss to understand it.
I am totally taken by how you developed the idea, particularly showing the slicing of the arm, your story teller. The whole day is truncated and shaped into same mold.
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03/11/2015 10:51:16 AM |
| It was great fun following your hand throughout the day. The photographs together are more than the sum of their parts. Very nicely done. |
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03/11/2015 02:43:28 AM |
| Thanks for all the exceptional comments. |
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03/09/2015 11:05:34 AM |
You've captured small insignificant moments in your day. We know it's a day because your story ends by cycling back to the beginning. So much happens over 24 hours and for some reason you have held onto these particular events. They are very personal to you and you alone. They might remind us of our daily routines but these moments are yours.
What's enjoyable about this essay is you couldn't pull it off with a single image. So, we'll done and I hope you enjoyed the experience.
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03/08/2015 07:13:40 AM |
A great slice of life as experienced by the eye, of the arm. Always an interesting journey for us, the armchair voyeurs. The next step is to challenge that view and go outward and onward, how? that's up to you ;) Thanks for the contribution, hope you enjoyed it.
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03/07/2015 11:00:06 AM |
| Correction: curtains not blinds, but with strong folds that resemble vertical blinds. |
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03/07/2015 10:57:29 AM |
I have to read quite a bit into this to get something out of it, but as a terminal English major I enjoy the process.
The main character is the hand, who so perfectly performs the titular malaise, always with that tired tilt of the wrist. The self-conscious directorial moment is the sliced arm, which is the backstory of the hand, and wryly imitates the blinds. As an unapologetic poet, I enjoy such moments. |
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03/07/2015 04:39:06 AM |
It's a Day in the Life, starting after midnight and ending with a suggestion of a day's work done. In between, you have engaged the starter, released the handbrake, fuelled up, and tooled around the neighbourhood ticking a few boxes and stealing a few horses. It works; it's interesting, entertaining and well worth more than the one run through, too. Loved the odd points-of-view, especially the fridge one (this is the first time I have ever smiled at the fridge POV kind of photograph).
The individual photographs are also very interesting as stand alone images. Nice work all round Jeff.
When viewing the essay on your linked website/blog, I also quickly scrolled top-to-bottom and back a few times, and there's a day there in the advancing & receding light and the changing mood. An implied diurnal device! I reckon that was your intention at least as a subconscious impulse, and it works beautifully!
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