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Originally posted by Gahoendoe:
There has been an unexpected, most welcome outcome from my Youtube video production. One of the founders of the New Renaissance School of Art in Italy has asked that I come to Florence to teach a "short" course on still image video production. Teejaysang
a.k.a Tom Salter
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very well deserved Tom
Make sore that you contact "our man" in Florence:-
Max
I had meant to reply to this topic long ago as I desperately wanted you to cover my favourite "Restless", which seemed to me
to have just about everything required for a most interesting "screeenplay",but somebody beat me to it,I love what you did for
it,
I had somewhere already posted some pictures but no amount of searching here or on google for keywords that I used will now
bring the topic up so possibly it was one of those that got deleted.However I remembered the images I had used and refound
them as follows:-
Firstly to illustrate my favourite Gord piece of obscure imagery
"an old schooner flying down a sky that's overcast"
One moment overcast twilight, then suddenly a ray of light breaks through
and illuminates the scene. Then just as quickly it's gone. Luck definitely
plays a part but you can't get lucky if you're not out there.
Next to illustrate the "Wicked blast"
which I found on
http://www.liberatorcrew.com/SB1919/TG.htm
with this very relevant caption:-
"A great shot of the wicked muzzle blast the short barreled Brownings are noted for.
Thanks to Dutch for this shot"
next "a cold diesel rolling down a road that's built to last "
or
"Of an old engine flying down a road that's iron cast
Funnily enough I ignored the engine line in my minds eye and immnediatekly thought of a diesel road roller:-
And I completely missed the obvious iron road being a railroad and in any case your delightful use of pictures of old
number 6060 are more obviously an "engine"
I will PM you shortly regarding next week when I hope to meet you in Toronto
also amazing is the fact that I decided to search for"scrimshaw" and found
http://www.williamgilkerson.com/scrimshaw.html
where I read
"Scrimshaw is the indigenous art form of the American Whaleman. In his idle hours of cruising for whale, he devoted himself
to fashioning articles and jewelry of whale ivory."
and found a picture that seemed to fit Gord's schooner theme
Unfortunatey the subject is the oldest US warship (that I have been on in Boston) the USS Constitution
Hardly anything to do with
"your dad And the scrimshaw that he had Of an old schooner "
I was therefore surprised to find it featured in your video
screenshot of Tom's flv file playing in Windows Media Player
Yours admiringly
John Fowles
nothing that I have written above is meant to be in any way a criticism of your beautiful creation