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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 2/18/2008
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Hi Andre!
I would dare take it even further and say, what a good luck that we all have to be influenced by such books, and what would we do without it? It's perhaps that kind of interaction between the many different kinds of arts that plays a bigger role than we think considering ideas for such projects. So, even the current series I post about guitars is not really only "my" project. I presumably wouldn't even come close to thinking of that wihtout priorly having seen the guitars of Eddie Van Halen. So, it seems like giving and taking - quite a good thing to happen.
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 2/17/2008
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Hi Nick,
Books of all genre can be a great inspiration for photo projects. Since books have already inspired the images we see in the theatre, it can be difficult not to be influenced by the style of the film.
In any case, trying to interpret a book style into still images, is sure to be an interesting project.
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 2/16/2008
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Well, Andre, what can I say... I am too much of a beginner in photography for considering the image to even come close to such genius intellectual work, and so I feel indeed very honored to hear you refering to such works in connection to the image.
I rather thought of a "smaller" fit, in the sense of some short plot that only touches a small part of what Phillip K Dick was able put in a single and frightening concept by just ripping of the masks and exposing an unimaginably deep abyss behind the scenes.
Such people had both the blessing and the curse, if you wish, to be able to see behind all that is shown and demonstrated in glory. It's much like discovering the discrepancies and contradictions in some "intuitively true" system of values and rules - from my rather mathematical point of view ;-)
I remember back in 1980 when I was going to school, our literature teacher instructed us to read "The penultimate truth" and after a month we would discuss it. Well, we read it and we were all pretty much.. frozen because we realized that much of the fear in front of "bad neighbors" and the like was only induced and fed by some few that only wanted it to exist in that form. We were afraid of our own selves in a sense because, what would a closer inspection of the story bring? What kind of picture would the mirror show us? That we readily allowed ourselves to be cheated that way - perhaps because we ourselves were eager to believe without questioning and just live with that fear? It's been quite a dispute in the classroom but from then on I am rather uncomfortable with Yance-men of our days, be them politicians, financial wizards, religion gurus, or anything similar.
I think I should read more of Dick and try perhaps to visualize some of his scenes. But it will take much work and time.
Thank you so much again - above all for the intriguing idea that you gave me! I didn't have much if that inention when I took this photo, but perhaps it could be also some kind of start for a new series under the influence of your comments.
Nick
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 2/15/2008
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Hi Nick,
I can name many others that seem to fit this image for some reason. What about the Orwellian world of 1984. Clockwork Orange, Or a lot of the Phillip K Dick books.
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 2/12/2008
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And also great thanks, Claudia!
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 2/12/2008
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Oh yes, I think it was possible to zoom out, and also that it would add much to depth and distance. A good idea, for which I thank you very much!
And just take your time with images and comments. A pity that we can't only do photography, but there is also the need for eating for example, in order to be able to keep it up! ;-) And so there is the need to do for the job. No starving photographer can shoot ;-) And then there is of course everything else considering family, everyday things to do.. you name it. So just take time.
Cheers,
Nick
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Claudia Perilli
{K:31090} 2/11/2008
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Great capture, excellent composition, great light.
Claudia
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 2/11/2008
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SciFi was also what I was thinking about here, Andre! I mean not really that kind of SciFi with spacecrafts and lazer guns, but the more subtle ones that simply put many things of our real world into fantastic societies in order to question them. Much like that kind of thing of the TV series "Twilight zone" some time ago. That is also where that kind of re-programming strory fits so well - and I also mean the re-programming of the photographer of course! ;-)
Cheers,
Nick
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Avi
{K:70138} 2/11/2008
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Very good composition Nick. Maybe you could have taken this form a wee bit back (more zoomed out, I mean - was it possible ?) ..
sorry I have been quite busy and not able to catch up regularly..
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Andre Denis
{K:66407} 2/10/2008
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Nick,
It is one of those images that simply works without a need to explain. People can make up their own story if they like. It has a sort of Sci Fi look to it. The man has been summoned to a personal screening in order to have his brain re programed? Or, maybe he is just the first to arrive :)
Or second if you count the photographer. :)
Andre
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 2/9/2008
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The atmospher is calm indeed, Rita. Perhaps, as Visar already mentioned, it is the calm atmosphere that induces not as calm thoughts.
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 2/9/2008
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Oh no, no white balance in this case, Gustavo, since white would definitely make it only usual. But I could get a better focus, I guess!
Cheers,
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 2/9/2008
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Thanks a lot for the nice comment, Fabrice! I wonder now about what this could have been under a stricter focus...
Cheers,
Nick
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 2/9/2008
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Thanks a lot for the nice and detailed comment, and also the very sharply interpreted situation, which does put me in mental motion agaon, Visar!
It has been only the.. "What *is*" when I took that, only the empty seats and the man and no movie - and that was more than enough of a scene to me. But thinking about why it was more than a scene to me, I must say that your comment does reach my own sub-conscious "thoughts" about such scenes which I seem to like very much. And since liking or disliking always has some kind of existing reasons behind it, I can also assume that capturing such "empty" scenes may be as well attributed to pretty much the same complex of suggestive perception as you described it.
The city, in all its full appearance, does offer many times such "emptyness", sometimes only implicit and some times also explicit, like here. And of course then it starts ticking in one's mind about the essence of being here, waiting for a movie, and what the hell of a movie that will be... I find all that a much more mature consideration of being than any false sunny side look that keeps one's mind on the very surface of things. I guess it's much like deciding if we also sit with a drink and discuss any "uncomfortable" subject sometimes, instead of only simply smiling/shining/whatever. Something like that....
Cheers and thanks a lot again,
Nick
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Rita Iszlai
{K:353} 2/8/2008
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i like it too, maybe becouse the calmly atmosphere...
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Gustavo Scheverin
{K:164501} 2/8/2008
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Muy buena idea!, siempre una excelente composición, la exposición muy justa aunque por ahí el balance de blancos podría ajustarse un poco más.
Un abrazo!
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G G
{K:61359} 2/8/2008
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I like also this Nick with this perfect frame and this head alone appearing upper the seats..
This is nicely seen and done;
Cheers
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absynthius .
{K:20748} 2/8/2008
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well neither do i know, but i do like it a lot. maybe because i am obssesed with strong compositions, and this is strong. but then, i think there must be something about this shot, more profound so to say. A man sitting alone amongs all these empty seats, in a cinema without a movie being shown- as if he is sitting to reflect on his movie-like life, or he's not remembering anything, or... whatever other personal things that might be related to being alone and only so crystalise that tangledness- that mess that pushed him to be sitting alone here.
Nick, i like this shot a lot- propably amonst the fav on your photo stream.
cheers,
v.
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