2010-04-27 // 11:22:32
recurrentdream
I see how it can be frustrating.
Last night this was the last polaroid i looked at before i went to sleep and i started thinking more and more about it.
I wanted to go more into detail of what i posted the other night.
I want to be in the boat and sail away and by the definition of "starting new" start new as i want to be someone else, leave my past behind The irony in this is i've tried it before to be someone else yet the false names that i give out to people are of names of people that i knew in my past.
So my past never really dies out..
I hope that makes sense, majority of the time i'm incoherent.
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^ It makes a lot of sense. I get phases where I feel like it's time for another alter ego (and I already have a few). Sometimes I feel like I want to escape from the image I've created in connection with a certain name. But my new alter egos are never really new to me. I see them getting themselves into the same kind of situations as my former incarnations. But still, at least when you start again with a new name, the trail of your past misdeeds appears to be shorter and that can give you a sense liberation for a while. I was right: this picture is the ultimate inkblot test. |
2010-04-26 // 21:03:43
recurrentdream
I fell asleep faster than usual...
When i have another sleepless night, i'll come back to your gallery. ( :
If you don't mind me asking. How does this image make you feel? I'm curious to know, even if its "unusual"
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^ Please do. I just looked through all the comments and I found a reply I wrote at the time, describing my response. It is my answer to CDR's comment. I reread it today and tried to decide if I had changed my mind. The answer is no. The placidity of this picture still makes me seethe with impatience and a sense of frustration at my own inability to absorb the calmness and enjoy it. I'd like to drop a heavy stone into this picture and make ripples on its surface. |
2010-04-26 // 12:45:48
recurrentdream
How it makes me feel?
I want to leave everything behind and start new.
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^ Are you still there? Or have you gone to sleep now? |
2009-06-04 // 14:24:47
g.
right now, skinny-dipping in the evenfall
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^ And as the body falls straight into the water, it makes the clear clipped sound of a shiny silver coin dropping into a wishing well |
2008-11-28 // 23:55:09
maplesyruponly
polaroid twins for sure! it's neat because the locations are really quite different!
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^ True - the locations could hardly be more disparate. But in mood and framing, they are closely related. I like your pictures, by the way. |
2008-11-21 // 22:21:58
CYRILLE PANCHOT
»link
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^ Haaa! Well done. I'Ve never had a Pola-twin before. |
2008-07-15 // 14:54:51
Felixxx
it awakes some sense of departure in me
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^ Ah, but is the boat leaving home for foreign shores or is it leaving foreign shores and going back home, or is it continually travelling from one place to the next? Does it even have a home to leave or come back to? It's like the ink blot test, you see. So if you look at the boat and think, for example, that the boat contains an axe murderer who is on his way out to sea in order to feed the dismembered remains of various members of his family to the sharks, then this means you are an independent, target-driven individual with a love of order and a strong determination to perform any self-imposed tasks efficiently. |
2008-07-03 // 21:53:21
jimsnade
Why the fuck does nobody vote this for SotD ????
I mean, what else do you need ? a little ship; mountains, dramatic skies, dreamy fog.....
Is it because there's no TREE in this picture ??
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^ To a Polanoider, fog without a tree is like a bog without wee, a frog without tea or a snog without me. |
2008-06-11 // 19:31:29
Urizen
19 comments are too many for you expecting me to read, so i'm probably repeating someone: I feel really calmed, i can almost see the ship moving very, very slowly, in an imperceptible way
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^ Calm? Really? I feel quietly insane. But that's normal. |
2008-06-10 // 17:24:54
JanWolstenholme
that's why it's called the Round The World Single-Handed Yacht Race
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^ Haaaaaaaa! Gosh, now I wonder if that chap drinks his own urine. He can't possibly have a fresh water supply for seven years. (Oh dear. And this was supposed to be such a sensitive discussion. Now I've spoiled it for everyone.) |
2008-06-10 // 17:24:26
CYRILLE PANCHOT
Your are really rude...
And i guess he won't ask any permit to do this ... Beleive me he won't!..
I'm afraid he will go back directly in his boat if you are the first girl he meet after seven years...
You are so charming!
No i can't let what i have written...
;-)
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^ No, no, I'm deeply romantic. Everybody says so. I was actually picturing this lonely sailor poetically spilling his seed into a wild, storm-tossed ocean (keeping his back to the wind, obviously) and then breaking down and sobbing bitterly on the deck as he realises that all hope of finding love has almost vanished. And then I pictured him wiping himself on one of the sails and cracking open another cold tin of hotdogs and eating them in bed. |
2008-06-10 // 16:56:40
CYRILLE PANCHOT
And this man can come back every seven years... He has one day to find love...
Some-times you can see this sailor in the fog when night is falling or when the sun is rising..
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^ Wow. That's wonderful. So romantic. (Is he allowed to masturbate? ) |
2008-06-10 // 16:23:49
CYRILLE PANCHOT
I let you guess
And the story of a man who is forced to sail forever alone till he finds love (if my memory is good enough).
2008-06-10 // 15:36:47
abstract_patrick
makes me feel alone, together. beautiful image.
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^ Like in a sort of drifting love boat? That's a nice idea! I expect there will be some ripples soon if we just wait. |
2008-06-10 // 12:46:14
mattjudas
fantastic image.
Love this blue mood.
love that lonely boat.lonely
lonely...lonely.
It seems to be on the verge of disappearing.
I would like to be on that.
thank u
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^ So leaving, not arriving. And you are on it - not left behind. Strange how many different things you can project onto something so simple. Thank you. |
2008-06-10 // 12:30:14
JanWolstenholme
Very kind of you but don't trouble yourself, I can see real boats from here. Your picture is superb, full of triangles, I was just answering your question not commenting on the picture.
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^ Damn. Too late. I spontaneously ordered a whole transporter full of gaffs in a fit of pique. |
2008-06-10 // 12:08:50
JanWolstenholme
It makes me feel like I still don't like Bermudan rigs, give me a gaff or a junk anyday.
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^ Ok. Next time I take a picture, I'll be sure to have one transported in specially. |
2008-06-10 // 12:03:21
CDR
i would disagree with the bit where you say you're not a loon.
mainly because knife crime is bad. even if it is only soft furnishings you're slashing.
i probably agree with the rest of what you said. but i think there's an element of control that's missing... if i could get on the boat and lead the boat through that gap in the mountains then i might be content. if i just had to sit on the boat as it circled in the currents, i'd join you in becoming a knife statistic.
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^ (You're mad, dear boy. Quite, quite mad.) "But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here." |
2008-06-10 // 11:37:36
philippebourgoin
Story of my life. The nice part;)
P.
(because I assume V. would shiver !)
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^ The solitary traveller. I see. |
2008-06-10 // 11:33:29
dimitris
When I was serving the army in Samos island for 9 months the ships I was watching from the sentry-box looked like floating between sky and sea (meteors). When I see ships or boats in such land(?)scapes I have the impression that the space and the time are curved. There is not a linear approach like in everyday life. There is not a start or an end point.
Like a nature phenomenon that people believe they can explain it or control it.
Ships can fly, cars cannot.
You, English people, suffer a lot, seeing your language being bent and squeezed by the barbarians...
:-)
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^ The English language is curved too. I love what you said about ships and cars. And I suppose that's why nobody ever considered calling spaceships "spacecars". |
2008-06-10 // 11:25:10
bp
Beautiful.
Answer to the question you made to ksvks:
the boat, wich is a small boat, is coming home. Late afternoon, cloud, low wind and, as far as I understand, it's going to rain soon.
Gran bella pola.
Benni
2008-06-10 // 11:12:30
CDR
makes me feel grimly happy.
like i want to be there rather than here. or there rather than anywhere. but i know when i got there i'd rather be somewhere else; like a beach. cos ultimately the lake would get a bit dull.
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^ Ha! Excellent. So I'm not a loon after all. Or at least, not the only one.That was very close to what I feel. I look at the boat and I feel a combination of surging impatience - as if it has to get away before it goes mad from all that picturesque calmness - and a sense of obligation to linger just a little longer, because it may never reach such a perfect, harmonious place on its travels again. I don't imagine the lake as a lake. I imagine there is a way out to the sea behind the mountains. If I try to imagine it as a lake, I feel the urge to start screaming and slashing the soft furnishings with a kitchen knife. |
2008-06-10 // 10:56:35
dimitris
Loneliness and freedom.
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It reminds me the winter in Greek islands.
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^ That's quite a combination. But perhaps freedom does always come at the price of loneliness. Perhaps you can only ever have both. "Greek islands in the winter" makes me wonder if you think the boat is coming home or leaving home, or if it comes from another place and is now far away from home. |
2008-06-10 // 10:55:04
CYRILLE PANCHOT
PANDORA you know that film?
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^ No, I don't. |
2008-06-10 // 10:51:39
CYRILLE PANCHOT
It makes you feel lonely i guess...
2 options:
One the one hand you choose to jump from this lonely boat on the other hand you leave this lonely boat in this lonely place to go back to on earth.
This picture is very nice...
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^ That's interesting. When you say "jump from the boat" in option 1, do you mean drowning yourself? So either you dispappear forever in the water or you swim to land and try to escape your solitude? |
2008-06-10 // 10:47:55
aurelienD
YES VERY GOOd !!
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^ Thank you. |
2008-06-10 // 10:46:53
niko
it makes me feel cold and calm. It's brilliant by the way.
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^ Thanks! For the description of your response especially. I feel like I want to use it like an inkblot test to psychoanalyse the Polanoid community. |