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Blogocentric Formulations #811763 added March 30, 2014 at 3:55am
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Photography: Part I & Get Shorty
PROMPT: Photo albums. On the first day (today), tell us all about your experience with photo albums (physical or electronic). Do you still have pictures from when you or your children were young? Did your mother ever bring out your baby photo album at an inopportune/embarrassing moment (family reunion, boyfriend/girlfriend visiting, etc.)? Feel free to share some pictures with us if you want to Bigsmile On the second day (tomorrow), let us in on your future photo album plans. Any big trips coming up you hope to document? What is your motivation for recording these important events if there is potential they will only sit in their albums on a shelf for most of their life until they are removed, leafed through, and winced at? As a follow-up question: do you think that hiding behind a camera lens removes the photographer from the experience taking place in front of them?
My family has never really been one for taking lots of photos. We have quite a few albums from when my brother and I were younger (infants through the age of five or six), but not a whole lot after that... just a smattering of photographs here and there from important moments like graduations and first days of school and awards ceremonies of one type or another. My parents never really brought out the albums and showed the pictures at embarrassing moments, although there are a few embarrassing pictures in the albums that I've showed people myself. If you look at our family photos over the years, you can probably fit an entire trip on one or two rolls of film. There are a couple shots here and there, then one or two staged family shots of everyone who attended... and that's about it.
When my wife and I first started traveling on our own, I took a lot of pictures. Part of it was the advent of the digital camera and that fact that I could take literally hundreds of pictures without having to pay to have them developed, and part of it, I think, was to get a change from my parents' habit of not really capturing much of anything for the sake of posterity. We only went on a couple of trips like that, though, where I'd come home with hundreds and hundreds of photographs of architecture and scenery that I thought were important or memorable while I was there. I've largely stopped doing that, though; it's rare for me to go on a trip and come home with more than a hundred photos, even when I'm going somewhere exciting that I've never been before.
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PROMPT: What comedy movie makes you laugh the hardest?
GET SHORTY is a movie I never get tired of, and I always find myself cracking up at the same lines, time after time. It's one of my favorite Elmore Leonard novels, and I think Scott Frank (screenwriter) and Barry Sonnenfeld (director) did a masterful job capturing the sarcastic wit and cleverness of the story and characters. Every time I watch this movie I also get something new out of it, whether it's innuendo in a line that I didn't catch before, or a particular mannerism or bit of physical comedy from a character that I had forgotten about.
I'm a fan of all kinds of different comedies, but GET SHORTY does a great job of combining a lot of the elements that I love most, especially witty banter, recurring jokes, and deadpan humor. It's also got one of the greatest comedy ensembles I've ever seen with John Travolta, Rene Russo, Gene Hackman, Danny DeVito, James Gandolfini, Delroy Lindo, Dennis Farina, David Paymer, and Miguel Sandoval all playing prominent and memorable roles in the movie.
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