Happy Anniversary F-Blog!

For Ulf

Captive

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
(Angelus Silesius)

New F-blog subject...just for fun!

As a young child I remember looking forward to rebus puzzles each month when my favorite children’s magazine arrived in the mail. The combination of pictures and words was always a delight to solve. And thanks to Ulf, I was reminded of them again recently.

So just for some F-un, why not create your own photo rebus puzzle? If you need some inspiration here is a site about the history of the rebus. My own very simple rebus is below. Enjoy!

Enjoy your day Markus!

Time is just memory...mixed with desire
Happy Birthday, Markus!

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death." Erich Fromm

soccer boy

Sustainability Experiment - DOCU 08

In the 70's an idealistic couple, their retired parents and their two small children came to the Sequatchie Valley area in Tennessee and formed a 300-acre homestead. Moonshadows has evolved into a model for sustainable living and an educational organization called Sequatchie Valley Institute (www.svionline.org).

This is Carol Kimmons, one of the founders, conducting a tour about edible wild plants.

Recently Moonshadows offered the use of some of their land to a group of young couples who felt inspired to create an eco-village called Satya Village (named after the Hindu word for Truth). This band of modern-day pioneers live in army tents, tipis and campers. They raise organic vegetables, chickens and goats. They have added outhouses and showers (cold water only) and cook their food on woodstoves and propane campstoves. It is a hard and difficult life, but one they feel committed to pursue.

Tutorial: How to load film into a Bronica

Exhibition

We are pleased to announce a showing of GC's photography. Read more about it here.

Postcard from Florida

F is for Feet

Florida bus shelter

Invited Guest: Chutney Bannister aka Yusuf Ozkizil

Surreal Line is a series of images by photographer Chutney Bannister that feature advertising photos juxtaposed with riders on the London Underground. Chutney tells us that:

"The Surreal Line is a series of images taken from an ongoing project, documenting moments of chance on the London Underground where static billboards and posters coalesce with the world around them. I'm interested in how these advertisements, specifically designed for delivering one message, can have that story completely hijacked -- often by the mere framing of a window -- creating an entirely new context. Commuters, who are somewhat static, withdrawn, and locked in their own private routines, are oblivious to these momentary collisions. I'm fascinated by these chance encounters, and needless to say I gave up reading on the tube after my first trip on the surreal line."

Chutney's images, with their often-ironic juxtapositions, illustrate how the ubiquity of advertising has consequences that are often laughably out of sync with the world it inhabits. (File Magazine)














Chutney Bannister, known to most people outside of flickr as Yusuf Ozkizil, travels through London armed with a compact camera, seeking to take the banal by surprise. His current show underworld is an unusual take on the seemingly familiar world of the London Underground. A collection of unguarded, and unfamiliar moments, which often go unnoticed...

You can see Yusuf's underworld series and other photographs here.
All photos © Yusuf Ozkizil
invited by Rhonda Prince

F is for Family

This is my grandfather Carl S. Buchanan. Jaunty hat, enigmatic grin…external details that belie his true character. I met him once at a family reunion when I was a child and he never spoke. Just a perfunctory pat on the head as he turned back to his cigarette. Over the years I have heard stories about his life in Tennessee. He lived with my grandmother and their seven children in a small, rural town, sharing a tiny two-room shack. He was a moonshiner and a gambler…evading the law…a picturesque character… But then the other stories have surfaced, acts of cruelty too horrific to mention here. Sometimes we look back at family albums to understand where we came from. But we also look back to see what we have escaped…

(I'm not sure who took this picture but it appears to be a studio picture taken in the 40's or 50's)

Flowers

Trees

A.M.

Lost in Translation

As instructed...

Photo: Skye