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Now THIS is what I call a picture, much better than that garage before.

Posted by Will in Seattle | March 7, 2008 12:39 PM
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Looks like a wide shot from the movie Toys. Yes, I admit to seeing Toys. Goddamn Robin Williams.

Posted by laterite | March 7, 2008 12:55 PM
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Where are the Teletubbies?

Posted by Fnarf | March 7, 2008 1:08 PM
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ACID GRASS PARK!

Posted by Ramdu | March 7, 2008 1:15 PM
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Is this a scan of a slide, or what?

Posted by Greg | March 7, 2008 1:16 PM
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That is an amazing photo. LOVE IT.
Fnarf, that's Gasworks. Teletubby Hill is in Cal Anderson.

And @2, Toys is one of my favorite movies.

Posted by NaFun | March 7, 2008 1:32 PM
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Greg, it's a negative reversed in Photoshop to show a positive image. The reason it's square is because it's a medium format negative, 120 format shot at 6cm x 6cm, on Kodak Portra 160 VC (vivid color) film. It was shot with a twin-lens reflex, like a Rolleiflex or Yashicamat, but his Flickr page doesn't say which.

Posted by Fnarf | March 7, 2008 2:09 PM
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Oh, and NaFun, there absolutely are Teletubbies at Gasworks too.

Posted by Fnarf | March 7, 2008 2:10 PM
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No, we tied up the Teletubbies and stuffed them in the Fremont Rocket ...

Posted by Will in Seattle | March 7, 2008 2:26 PM
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all of brian's work is fantastic. hooray!

Posted by kate | March 7, 2008 2:50 PM
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I love this guy. I want to show him here at Vermillion.

Posted by Diana | March 7, 2008 3:44 PM
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This is not "more" of a picture than the garage from yesterday, they're just entirely different. I happened to really like the garage picture, it treated depth in an aesthetically pleasing way and I liked the industrial aspect.

This image is striking, but how is the subject matter "better" than a garage? It's a tree, you don't get much more mundane than that.

Posted by Aislinn | March 7, 2008 3:53 PM
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It's not about yesterday's subject matter but about composition. This one, to me, is interesting. Yesterday's (and I love industrial landscape as much as anyone) was flat. Taken from some other angle, with more contrasting elements, it might have been more provocative. IMO.

Posted by homage to me | March 7, 2008 5:01 PM
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Well, unlike the garage pic, this has symbolic elements in it.

For example, look at the gas exchange towers on the bottom left.

Posted by Will in Seattle | March 7, 2008 5:14 PM
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The gasworks are not symbolic.

Posted by Fnarf | March 7, 2008 6:06 PM

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