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Titus Powell
{K:1731} 9/13/2003
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Every once in a while I find a portfolio on Usefilm that is a treasure trove of gems... yours is definitely one of them, Jim. Breathtaking creativity! It's truly inspiring.
Tom
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Andre Fersen
{K:1679} 8/12/2003
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Socrates looks rather scary. The Parthenon, on the other hand, looks otherworldly - a fit residence for your dreaming butterfly/philosopher.
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Yutaka Itinose
{K:22586} 8/9/2003
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Realy "Apologia Socratis" ! Nice Pantheon!
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Onur Aydin
{K:9815} 7/31/2003
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Get the hell out !! Holy smoke !
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Kristina Kohut
{K:49990} 7/29/2003
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Haha... excellent this too! Very creative thinking and funny, great result!
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luisa vassallo
{K:28230} 7/28/2003
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simpatica e bella! Complimenti per l'idea
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Adrian Maniutiu
{K:70} 7/27/2003
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I just have to tell you again: strong image, wonderful vision !!!
PS : Thank you for introducing me to "usefilm" ;)
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Lou Verruto
{K:1375} 7/27/2003
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YIKES!! I played in a band with this guy in 1969..bass player..the years have not been good to him! But he still has that same look in his eye.
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Ok enough..this is excellent.Comp is exceptionally interesting as is the overall tone, setting off the eyes so dramatically. Nice....really nice.
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Jim McNitt
{K:11246} 7/26/2003
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The following comment was contributed by Adrian Maniutiu, a Romanian photographer living in Germany (http://www.photo-am.de/site/home.html):
Thus spoke the statue: There are caterpillars who are such imbeciles, that they will never become a butterfly? There are butterflies, radiating greatness and splendor . Those were never caterpillars? And in between are the ignorant butterflies who act like caterpillars and the insolent caterpillars who think of themselves that they are already butterflies? And what am I ? I?m a caterpillar who eats butterflies. One day I ate my own wing? that woke me up, and I noticed I?m a butterfly though, dreaming of caterpillars. Since than, I can no longer fly nor eat but I started philosophizing! I am a philosofly, sometimes afraid of waking up and finding himself among caterpillars.
The statue finished his words, took his wings and flew away
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Ronny Van Eeckhoutte
{K:12734} 7/26/2003
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I have to say your images knock me over. Keep up the excellent work, your work is a real inspiration.
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Richard Blount
{K:8015} 7/26/2003
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What a great combination of images and the story too, I love anthing to do with ancient Greece and I found Fabio comment very enlightening and interesting. The picture is very clever Jim, you have a knack for making things that require a lot of effort in PS look simplistic. I take my hat off to you, so to speak for that. A very nice image - Richard.
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Jim McNitt
{K:11246} 7/25/2003
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Thank you CG. My super hero powers increase in proportion to the amount of Merlot available ::hint, hint::
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G C
{K:12204} 7/25/2003
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You are now officially my super hero.
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Gregory McLemore
{K:35129} 7/25/2003
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Excellent work.
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Robson Zumkeller Campos
{K:4071} 7/25/2003
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Very interesting! i like the idea and the discussion about that ;) congrats!
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Fabio Keiner
{K:81109} 7/25/2003
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eye in eye with homer (not that simpson-guy, of course:)is a rare privilege
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wonder what kind of interpretation you'll produce with/upon him
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Jim McNitt
{K:11246} 7/25/2003
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Fabio:
Thanks for setting me straight. I was pretty sure it wasn't Socrates, or any of the Greek philosophers, but I didn't have a clue who the philospher in question might have been.
Still, as a metaphor for the power of imagination and creative thought (not to mention psychoactive substances), I think this works. Besides, Socrates' was the only bust that I managed to shoot from a heroic angle. I photographed all the other Greek busts -- Pericles, Alexander, Homer, Aristotle -- at the British Museum either from eye level or above.
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Fabio Keiner
{K:81109} 7/25/2003
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you make my heart sing and my brain swing
or vice versa
:))))))
you're one of the funniest guys here: a post-modernist deconstructivist anti-philosopher with a cam and lots of phantasy at hand
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the famous man with his butterfly was not socrates, by the way, but the chinese taoist writer-philosopher dschuang dse (if I'm right) who wrote about that man dreaming to be a butterfly dreaming to be a man...
not knowing whether he's now a butterfly dreaming or a man awake
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that's life: all a question of perspectives and recognition
socrates very often mentioned his 'demon' or spirit guiding him: now I know, this demon was a butterfly: and in your pic certainly after the death sentence condemning him
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a MUST for the forthcoming generations of photographing philosophers, your pic
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