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worldwide - elaine - Tuesday, May 10th, 2005 : goo
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here i am in a liminal landscape. everywhere and nowhere, baby.
ostensibly: here is photography, specifically urban.
what we do not see here is pornography, or anywhere near it, this despite a) the internet's famed % of traffic, and b) photography's own sweaty history with the genre. famous for it. but hold on, is that all it is? content? or is this a feint? woo hoo, look over here, as i wave a naked lady in one hand, perhaps i have another hand and it's a fist? because maybe the photography/pornography diad is less that than from day one, by nature, the mechanical eye has had a transgressive impulse.
so here is this site with the 'precious photos'. and what have we here? quite a lot of no people, and certainly where people are captured, there is a certain coolness about who. specifically, usually strangers. people observed, other to the photographer. lots of buildings. lots of journeys. lots and lots of tags and grafs. sometimes cherry blossom.
and the eye of the beholder, what transgression there? well, two things. first, what is photography - that taking a photograph, once achieved at all, will then be pushed formally, technically, and there is more than one way of elbowing out what can be a photograph - push that little camphone to the max! now look at the lurid swimmy results with the super8 wondereyes.
second, and this swerves to take in the soul stealing, but you will have to decide why for yourself, second is the project: photographing modernity or postmodernity or post-postmodernity or whatever it is, this urban life. whatever it is, it's back round again to making a mark and calling yourself human in that peculiar place we made from the drive of trade and the boom of industry, the city of strangers. we make a connection with other humans in a space particular and odd, given the massive space on the interweb, here is a niche of global village where we are connecting with very specific signs/pictures/words/tags and we do it largely with pictures of street signs, rotting buildings, grafitti, skylines, & tube trains, the very very bricks and mortar of our own everyday lives.
and sometimes the cybersquatters, and always the crips and the bloods, and the sectarian squabblers. they come just to rant and scream at each other and then they are surprised when their threads unravel. more city noise. remaining - the postings themselves, pictures and words of urban life. heterogenous and bombastic, like all the best cities.
ra!
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fuzzytank: 11th May 2005 - 08:10 GMT
its a interesting word
and even more so is you are wondering about what all this is
all these images and words on cities
liminal space gets minced and rearticulated over and over in articles on urbanisim (the word probably pops up just as much as 'linkages' 'pedagogy' or 'methodology')
Sharon Zukin - "Disneyland suggests the social and economic potential of liminality in the modern American marketplace."
but that article wasnt as interesting in terms of the liminal space which we are showing off on this site ;)
elaine: 11th May 2005 - 08:35 GMT
i agree. i found myself latching onto it after finding transgression too violent a metaphor, on the one hand and being a bit of an anthropology bunny on the other. i havn't read widely on urbanism, i was put off by the adorno, and more interested in his chum benjamin, talking about aura, so i went off on that photography/modernity tangent for a bit. then i got into cultural reproduction, but i read 'the forest of symbols' by victor turner, which is an anthropological skinny especially on the limenal passage - who you are or are not when you are between states, not man or boy, not alive or dead. then i leapfrogged all that and cut str8 to baudrillard, who is much more entertaining about disneyland!
thanks for taking the time to respond - and your grafiqe
Peter: 11th May 2005 - 14:05 GMT
yay, a good text entry! thanks elaine- this was really thought provoking. id love to see someone like hool weigh in, especially on people in photos, etc...
elaine: 11th May 2005 - 15:13 GMT
yeah, i like hool's writing on photography too. i was inspired by the prospect of a book, and i also have been thinking about writing in an academic stylie again, and the old problem of it's upublishability/unreadability, then i thought what if i integrated those thought with my more personal style here, and see if anyone bites, and lo! the fuzzytank, who knew? well, i know he reads, but i was quite resigned to the possibility of getting no response whatever
xalxixa ou charada: 15th Feb 2006 - 22:58 GMT
ai eu pertenço a familia mgs(marginais)mais por saber que 2pac pertenceu a blood sou como um fã de tal grupo espero um dia ter a oportunidade de pertencer ao grupo. Obs.:eu conheço um crip e ele e até que legal
recado do xalxixa do brasil um grande salve...
xalxixa: 1st Aug 2006 - 23:38 GMT
nossa eu sou o xal da MGS e fortaleço minha familia mais ai gostaria de fazer uma filiaçao com as gangs MGS(marginais e blood)ai se possivel mandem respostas!!!!!
encontrem-me no orkut MGS a familia!!!!
Falo um abraço e força na missao blood!!!!
anon (ce3.vicone.netspace.net.au): 16th Aug 2006 - 00:20 GMT
this is the best site and i love the bloods there the best and ive herd lots of things about them
xalxixa: 16th Aug 2006 - 01:35 GMT
salve salve doidos ai eu gostaria de dexa um avizo ai, nao pertenço mais a MGS so que agora estou na mais nova gang divisora de bairros a A.D.(Ana Dias) estou com o mesmo sonho de fazer uma uniao entre nos e a blood somos braços fieis de todos os lado encontrem-me no meu msn xalxixa_charada@hotmail.com
flow fikem com Deus!!!!!!!!!!
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