Thursday, May 27, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Foreign Seas
I moaned your name before I knew it
And cried to darkened ceilings, searching
Twisted my toes in anticipation, but nothing ever came.
The tides were rising.
I found a floating pace and drifted
Let the seaweed twine around me, pulling
Sought out your boyish voice, and lost it to the current
The signs were apparent.
And I spoke your body before I learned it’s language
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Six months. That's right. This dream-like picture shows each phase of the sun over Bristol's Clifton Suspension Bridge taken during half a year.
The image was captured on a pin-hole camera made from an empty drinks can with a 0.25mm aperture and a single sheet of photographic paper.
Photographer Justin Quinnell strapped the camera to a telephone pole overlooking the Gorge, where it was left between December 19, 2007 and June 21, 2008--the Winter and Summer solstices. (That's a15,552,000 second exposure.)
(Dotted lines of light are the result of overcast days when the sun struggled to penetrate the cloud.)
Quinnell, a renowned pin-hole camera artist, says the photograph took on a personal resonance after his father passed away on April 13--halfway through the exposure. He says the picture allows him to pinpoint the exact location of the sun in the sky at the moment of his father passing.
— Comedian : Bill Hicks