Comments on: Monstrous

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:54:14 +0000

Glad you liked — and that you’re enjoying Odeo, too. Cheers.

By: GeL (Green-Eyed Lady)

GeL (Green-Eyed Lady) — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 08:46:31 +0000

I enjoyed reading your thoughts inspired by these lucsious photographs or is that vice versa?
Thank you for the email regarding Festival of Trees. I clicked on the link in your email looking for a “Festival of Trees” link, and was surprised that I see no icon here? Are my green eyed too bleary to find it here? No email needed. I’ll Google for the link.

However, I was struck by the irony of your post regarding Odeo. I’m an artist (photography and fine arts) and a poet, too. In my current post, I used Odeo to record my poem. Again, these are terrific photos. I LOVE painting and photographing trees. It’s a treat to see another artist’s majestic work. Thank you

By: Larry Ayers

Larry Ayers — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 23:43:55 +0000

I have a particular fondness for monstrous trees. Rotting, injured, and deformed trees don’t cause the sympathetic horror inspired by similarly afflicted people!

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:11:45 +0000

What effects would you recommend? I don’t know how to do too many fancy things with Photoshop.

By: Natalie

Natalie — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:49:26 +0000

Never any twaddle, monstrous or otherwise, from Via Negativa. But those tree-monster photos are stupendous. It’s tempting to think of giving them very slight tweaking in Phtoshp to bring out their prehistoric qualities even more.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:17:28 +0000

Thanks, patry. Better get used to it, I guess — in 30 years, they say, every winter will be as mild as this one has been so far (though I still have great hopes for the latter part of January, February and March!).

By: patry

patry — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 05:28:17 +0000

I think you’ve located the special beauty of a brown and grey winter.

By: Bosda

Bosda — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 13:06:09 +0000

Zhoen–Worthy? Worthy of what?

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 03:56:12 +0000

Thanks, Zhoen – I appreciate that.

Peter – If you visit, I promise to be on my best behavior – and turn up the stereo so you won’t hear all the things that go bump in the walls and crawlspaces.

bill – I don’t have any control over the terradiddles. You’re on your own.

By: bill

bill — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 18:16:22 +0000

Twaddle, piffle, tarradiddle—all great Stuff. Pleated nonsense.

“Nice monster baby, be nice now to Bill. That’s a good girl. Hey! No biting! Dave? Dave!”