Friday

The List

With regard to the book project [clicky], here's the list to date:
  1. Contented
  2. Sexy
  3. Helpless
  4. Beauty
  5. Relationship between nature and the human-made landscape
  6. Strong Enough For A Man
  7. Fear of Change
  8. Passion for Nature
  9. Elegance in Flight
  10. Excruciating Beauty
  11. Explosion of Light
  12. Terrestrial Permanence
  13. Eccentric Color
  14. Hot Danger
  15. Pleading for Forgiveness
  16. Agonizing Scrutiny
  17. Improved by Age
  18. Staggering Brutality
  19. Miniature landscapes
  20. What the past thought of the future that is now past
  21. Boundaries and demarcations
  22. Scenes from a cafe
  23. Things that look like cleavage but aren't
  24. Still life of small, 3 dimensional work of art -- hand fired pottery, fine vase; woodcarving with lots of shadows,
  25. Architectural features of a building, or one under construction----e.g. steelwork being erected, etc.
  26. Faces of workers in their work settings
  27. Old barns, shacks, houses with a story to tell
  28. Landscapes suggesting mystery, ambiguity, perhaps including ambiguous human figure
  29. Interior scenes suggesting beauty and mystery -- inside of a cathedral, or old chaplet, small country church, mansion, etc.
  30. Anticipation
  31. Resonance
  32. Improbable Love
  33. Resilience
  34. Reciprocity
  35. Against All Odds
  36. Emotional Blackmail or Emotional Propaganda
  37. The Unexpected Power of Love
  38. A Child's Idea of the Future
  39. Yesterday's View of Tomorrow, Captured Today
  40. Reluctant Acceptance
  41. Why Music Matters
  42. "Dreams are the touchstones of our characters" (Thoreau)
  43. "This world is but canvas to our imaginations" (Thoreau)
  44. "Being entirely honest with one's self is a good exercise" (Freud)
  45. "The poorest worker bartered through the years" (Langston Hughes)
  46. "Give thy thoughts no tongue" (Shakespeare, Hamlet)
  47. "Lawn as white as driven snow" (without showing snow; Shakespeare, The Winters Tale)
  48. "And liberty plucks justice by the nose" (Shakespeare, Alls Well That Ends Well)
  49. Privacy
  50. Secrecy
  51. Conspiracy
  52. Contempt
  53. Demons
  54. Trees
  55. Mother nursing baby
  56. Father with daughter or son
  57. Mother with daughter or son
  58. People eating (in particular I have always found interesting the sight of men in business suits eating on airplanes. I think it is the contrast between the artifice and social statement of a suit, with the animal nature of eating. Also the suit suggests power but for some reason people usually look vulnerable and innocent when they are eating.)
  59. Of Middle age. Normal, 30-50 year-old people.
  60. People sharing a birthday (same birthday, different ages)
  61. People who look like their dogs
  62. Tree carvings
  63. Candid kissing
  64. Chairs
  65. Things that resemble the numbers 1 through 10
  66. Hot guys
  67. Anticipation ... waiting
  68. A bike got me here ... real place & mental place
  69. Does this thing need to be watered?
  70. As a teenager, I see this: _______ as _______.
  71. As a 65 year old, I see this: _______ as _______.
  72. Wish I understood English
  73. LOLDogs
  74. Where's Bucket? (Where's Waldo but with Bucket, or do the kinda the same thing like bring a cool chair and photograph it in weird places)
  75. Hey what are you eating there? (walk into a restaurant and take facial snapshots of somebody, then get a brief bio of who they are and why they're eating there, then get a picture of what they are eating)
  76. Backs of People's Heads
  77. Cashiers (People) in Retail Stores
  78. Random people arguing
  79. Road rage
  80. Bank tellers
  81. Daily price of gas
  82. People's shopping carts at the grocery store
  83. Old age
FYI. Thanks for the assist. Book out in the autumn.
at Friday, June 08, 2007