The essence of the discipline is the comprehension of the underlying reasons for a thing's absurdity

[sovay]

I have just discovered the worst cough drops in the world. They taste exactly like bath salts. Now I need new cough drops.

Google Blog Search is the devil's playground.

Pace Ernest Thesiger, I think this is my new favorite image: Louis Daguerre's "Boulevard du Temple" (1838 / 1839). It looks so much less like the early photograph it is than some silver-etched Boschian take on Paris, with ghosts and deserted streets and the buildings blurring off into the sky . . .





palecast, this is Paradys.

Comments

[seajules]

Wow. That's an image that makes you hold your breath, so you catch it all.

[sovay]

That's an image that makes you hold your breath, so you catch it all.

I want to know how it looked to people at the time—or if it's only in retrospect, when we expect photographs to be exact and realistic, that it looks so fantastic and beautiful.

[seajules]

I'd think it must have had some of that same otherworldly effect for them, but I do think our expectation of something different in photographs adds an extra level.