An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

Focusing on the boats. Geilston Bay, October 2010

Theme Thursday rolls around again and today it is all about perspective. It is amazing how differently things look when one shifts one’s perspective, even to a minute degree. The problem is (of course), that many people appear to operate in patterns assumed over time, or from memory, not taking the time to alter one’s perspective and consider things from a different angle.

Take yesterday evening’s photograph. An artist at work recording an artist at work (recording an artist at work recording an artist at work recording an artist at work ad infinitum).

The photo is not merely a record of a memory. Nor is it a statement of artistic intent. No, it is best considered as an indicator of a CONSANGUINEOUS marker. A genetic predisposition hitherto overlooked or ignored.

Dangerous? Might I be creating a monster?

Focusing on the goalposts. Geilston Bay, October 2010

Comments

JeffScape said…

Nah, it's been created. Hah!

28 October 2010 at 17:56

Austin said…

I liked the 2 alternating pics, well done.

28 October 2010 at 21:27

Brian Miller said…

you use huge words.

i like the pics..had me fooled.

happy tt!

28 October 2010 at 21:38

Sherrie said…

Hi!
I really like both pictures. Have a great day!

Sherrie
Food for Thought
http://100sweets.blogspot.com/2010/10/themed-thursday.html

29 October 2010 at 02:48

Anonymous said…

Too true - good habits are much easier to give up!

29 October 2010 at 06:01

Harnett-Hargrove said…

Great hit on the theme. Happy TT.-J

29 October 2010 at 12:06

Tom said…

is that like a permanent marker...can i get one at Wal-mart?...speaking of giant monsters

30 October 2010 at 05:16

Megan said…

*Digs out dictionary*

31 October 2010 at 15:50

Kris McCracken said…

JeffScape, done and DONE!

Austin, thanks.

Brian, sometimes, but especially on Thursday. That’s what too long in a university does to one…

Sherrie, and yourself!

Moonlit-night, I’d like more good habits.

Harnett-Hargrove, hoorah!

Tom, we don’t have them here. We just have poor old K-Marts…

Megan, I’m trying to turn this into a learning experience for all of us. ;)

1 November 2010 at 10:40

Ah, Joe, you never knew the whole of it...

I still have the robot on the job. Here you can see the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery . And here is a poem: Soliloquy for One Dead Bruce Dawe Ah, no, Joe, you never knew the whole of it, the whistling which is only the wind in the chimney's smoking belly, the footsteps on the muddy path that are always somebody else's. I think of your limbs down there, softly becoming mineral, the life of grasses, and the old love of you thrusts the tears up into my eyes, with the family aware and looking everywhere else. Sometimes when summer is over the land, when the heat quickens the deaf timbers, and birds are thick in the plumbs again, my heart sickens, Joe, calling for the water of your voice and the gone agony of your nearness. I try hard to forget, saying: If God wills, it must be so, because of His goodness, because- but the grasshopper memory leaps in the long thicket, knowing no ease. Ah, Joe, you never knew the whole of it... I like Bruce Dawe. He just my be my favourite Austral...

There was nothing left. No reason, no conscience, no understanding; even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, good or evil, right or wrong.

Here is a self portrait. I’m calling it Portrait of a lady in a dirty window . Shocking, isn’t it? However, it is apt! Samhain , Nos Galan Gaeaf , Hop-tu-Naa , All Saints , All Hallows , Hallowmas , Hallowe'en or HALLOWEEN . It’s Theme Thursday and we’re talking about the festivals traditionally held at the end of the harvest season. Huh? No wonder Australians have trouble with the concept of HALLOWEEN. For the record, in my thirty-two L O N G years on the planet, I can’t say I’ve ever seen ghosts ‘n goblins, trick ‘n treaters or Michael Myers stalking Tasmania’s streets at the end of October. [That said, I did once see a woman as pale as a ghost turning tricks that looked like Michael Myers in late November one time.] Despite the best efforts of Hollywood, sitcoms, and innumerable companies; it seems Australians are impervious to the [ahem] charms of a corporatized variant of a celebration of the end of the "lighter half" of the year and beginning of the "darke...

Hold me now, oh hold me now, until this hour has gone around. And I'm gone on the rising tide, to face Van Dieman's Land

Theme Thursday again, and this one is rather easy. I am Tasmanian, you see, and aside from being all around general geniuses - as I have amply described previously - we are also very familiar with the concept of WATER. Tasmania is the ONLY island state of an ISLAND continent. That means, we're surrounded by WATER. That should help explain why I take so many photographs of water . Tasmania was for a long time the place where the British (an island race terrified of water) sent their poor people most vile and horrid criminals. The sort of folk who would face the stark choice of a death sentence , or transportation to the other end of the world. Their catalogue of crimes is horrifying : stealing bread assault stealing gentlemen's handkerchiefs drunken assault being poor affray ladies being overly friendly with gentlemen for money hitting people having a drink and a laugh public drunkenness being Irish Fenian terrorist activities being Catholic religious subversion. ...

This will hurt me...

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