Watching David Lynch

C&C welcome. Thanks for looking.

I like it, original work, Alberta.

 

Alberto

Your mind is clearer than David....... I hope. Regards//Nacho

Very creative - painful heart? Is it for real? The unknown! All these things in this image for me!

Its intriguing how the burned white accents the colors. Creative photo Alberta.

Thank you for your comments. Much appreciated.

 

I had rented the David Lynch (producer) film "Inland Empire." I was seeing myself reflected in the TV screen as an image of a needle on a record (the white and black shapes off to the right) appeared with the opening music. I knew instantly that I had my next photo creation.

 

It was a 3-hour film and it kept me captivated throughout. I didn't understand it with any degree of certainty. But it's a Lynch production so that's to be expected. It seemed to be about stories within stories, actors who play actors becoming the characters they portray. That I should be on the screen in my home, inside my TV screen, in Lynch's movie was, to me, just perfect.

 

I think I did the concept justice and am glad that you enjoyed it too.

 

Cheers ~

I almost wonder if the more powerful image is a cropped version eliminating the TV, and just preserving the screen? I don't know, maybe what you have right here is as it ought to be. Terrific concept and thoroughly fits Lynch's leit motif in Inland Empire. Cool shot! Cheers! Chris

Thanks for your comments first of all. Secondly, I am totally impressed that you know of this movie. It wasn't nearly as popular as other Lynch works like Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive or the fabulous series, Twin Peaks. But back to the photo.

 

One of my best friends made a very similar comment to me this morning about "losing the TV frame." So I did consider it. But I really think that for this work to work, for me to be IN Lynch's movie on my TV screen, we need the screen.

 

But another thought popped into my head while ruminating about all of this and I'll be back with another shot along these lines, sans TV frame, soon.

 

Cheers ~

I like Lynch's work a lot; I do think he's perhaps gotten a bit more flaky over time, but haven't we all...LOL! Trust me, living in Los Angeles anything that David Lynch does, or thinks about gets a mention. I think you're right about the frame; I just had to ruminate on it a while myself. I'll stay tuned! Cheers! Chris

Very original, I have to say that I do watch a lot TV, but here, you throw here a another prospective view to the use of television!!!! Thanks for your comment on one of my photographs. I wish I spend more time on the PN and visit more people, but for some reason server is very slow and speed(I have no other alternatives living in the woods UP North) of my connection does not help. Best Regards, erik.

Quite an original concept & shot. You are viewing a show and recording yourself as a witness.

Thanks for your comments. I can relate to the slow response time and I have a super-fast cable connection. I believe that when PN is totally up and running on their new servers things will speed up. So I hope to see more of you here - as time permits and there's never enough of that ;)

 

Cheers ~

Thanks for your comments.

 

The film is very long and very, very strange. By projecting the film on my TV screen with my relfected image along side, I hoped to convey the message that I'm not just witnessing the events - I become part of the event. This is exactly what happened in the film to the lead character, played expertly by Laura Dern.

 

Always good to hear from you.

 

Cheers ~

Very original and effective image, as has been said already very much in line with Lynch 's conceptions. Layered, complex, and open to a myriad of possible interpretations.

 

My favourite Lynch movie to this day is still Erasure Head and I have seen every episode of Twins Peaks and every movie he ever made more times than I should probably admit. Erasure Head has to be one of the most brilliant movies ever made. It is visually stunning in a dreary, morbid, frightening industrial sort of way :) Nearly every shot in that film would make a fantastic B&W still.

 

So very sad to hear you are leaving. I will miss you dearly. It seems as of late all my favourite photographers are packing in PN. If I do not leave myself, which is something I tell myself I should do on a regular basis, I will soon be left sitting around talking to myself :)

I'm glad you will be dropping in for the next couple of months so we still have time to say our goodbyes.

First of all - a golden cup (current POW) icon . . . I like these little icons ;) Well deserved: The Daisy Under Glass photo sure was a winner.

 

Second, thanks for the critique. Finding other Lynch fans in the world is both satisfying and settling. We are not insane, we just have sophisticated taste in film. Or maybe we are insane ;)

 

Lastly, I will miss your photos, your critique and your friendship. I'm hoping that employment and volunteering will fill the void that my leaving PN will create.

 

Cheers and good luck!

 

Alberta

I love this shot and was going to write about it. And then I read your note. I'm sorry to learn that you're leaving. I've enjoyed your posts and friendship so much. Warmest regards...

You're another reason why I'm sad to leave. You have given me months of enjoyment looking at the world through your lens and tons of support with your kind words and critique. Take care!

Very very well crafted!

It's comments like yours that make it hard to leave PN but I must. Thanks for your support in the past and good luck and happing shooting in the future.

 

Cheers ~

I have to thank your support all these days. You have take your decision...... it�s a shame... Wherever you go or whatever you do I wish you all the best. You have a friend in Bilbao, you know. Nacho.

Alberta, I read that you leave, we did not have a lot of contacts, but what we have had was good and effective. So what is left is to wish you to miss PN so much that you will come back,....;-)) and in the mean time good luck with your furture way.

Que ha hecho cada foto especial, todos los d� la diversion. I se pierda nuestros intercambios.

 

Cheers ~

Alberta

Your good wishes mean a lot to me and remembering you - your photographic and other great contributions to this troubled world - will help me in my future journeys.

 

I don't need to post photos here to continue to enjoy and be educated by your phenomenal and growing body of work. Thanks to the Internet you will never be too far away.

 

Best wishes to you too.

 

Alberta

Very nice and interesting capture,congrat...

Great concept... extremely well executed. I am envious of your creativity ! Well done. Cheers, Loic