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Thursday 21 November 2013

Blank (Don't be late)


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  Grief and consolation (The Netherlands): photo by Akbar Simonse, 25 April 2013


A generation
mesmerized by
small screens

will always have
its own image
to remember itself

by





A moment to remember (The Netherlands)
: photo by Akbar Simonse, 13 September 2013




Don't be late (The Hague): photo by Akbar Simonse, 19 August 2013




Untitled (Amsterdam): photo by Akbar Simonse, 10 May 2013


Lost (The Hague): photo by Akbar Simonse, 16 July 2013
 

Halte Keizersgracht (Amsterdam): photo by Akbar Simonse, 10 May 2013
 

On the road... (Amsterdam): photo by Akbar Simonse, 3 May 2013
 

Untitled (The Netherlands): photo by Akbar Simonse, 6 May 2013
 

  Untitled (The Hague): photo by Akbar Simonse, 24 June 2013



Untitled (The Netherlands): photo by Akbar Simonse, 6 May 2013



Untitled (The Hague): photo by Akbar Simonse, 19 June 2013
 

The Best for Less (The Hague): photo by Akbar Simonse, 19 June 2013
 

The use of smartphones is widespread (The Hague): photo by Akbar Simonse, 16 September 2013
 

  Watanabe (The Netherlands): photo by Akbar Simonse, 19 June 2013
 


  Untitled (The Netherlands): photo by Akbar Simonse, 4 April 2013



  Untitled (The Netherlands): photo by Akbar Simonse, 25 May 2013




  Calling while cycling is a major cause of traffic accidents (The Netherlands): photo by Akbar Simonse, 19 September 2013
 


The strange smell of an iPhone (The Hague): photo by Akbar Simonse, 30 June 2013

 

  Untitled (The Netherlands): photo by Akbar Simonse, 10 June 2013


  A night on the train (The Netherlands): photo by Akbar Simonse, 11 May 2012


  Now look at that!! (The Netherlands): photo by Akbar Simonse, 10 June 2013
 

  "Typing in black and white" (Siena, Italy): photo by pigianca, 21 May 2013
 

[people and smartphone] (Milan): photo by Luca Napoli, 26 June 2013
 

[people and smartphone] (Milan): photo by Luca Napoli, 17 July 2013


[people and smartphone] (Milan): photo by Luca Napoli, 2 June 2013



  This is Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, California): photo by Mark Nye, 18 November 2012

11 comments:

Poet Red Shuttleworth said...

All those phones and electronically conveyed ghost-images... and the loneliness and isolation and detachment husbands-up to the fake-wife of rubbed-raw urban "build-upon-build" (Samuel Beckett).

Red Shuttleworth

ACravan said...

Yes. I can accept that this is also "objective," but it fills me with pessimism. I wonder whether Samuel F.B. Morse, if he had invented "SnapChat," would have "messaged: "What hath God wrought?" Curtis

manik sharma said...

Well it is word of the year,isn't it..

"Selfie"
and apparently there are versions of it..Drivingselfie,Belowthewasteselfie etc, Yeah! right..Belowthewasteselfie..



TC said...

They're all around us. They're closing in. Their fingers are flying over their plastic slabs. Everyone is sharing their selfies these days, even Flula.

Flula: NSA, You may access my privates (8:06 AM)

vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras) said...

Ain't life grand when
You can fit it in

The palm of your hand.

ACravan said...

Here's the latest and greatest (it will be difficult to top) in "selfie culture":

http://nypost.com/2013/12/04/selfie-ish-woman-snaps-cellphone-shot-with-suicidal-man/

Curtis

TC said...

Curtis, Indeed, when in the reckoning of all the selfies of our days, I don't think it would be possible to top (or should one say "stoop lower than"?) that one.

Wondered if you've seen the commentary on it here?

ACravan said...

Thanks for directing me to this, which I missed. I had read previously about what you might call "disaster tourism" or "atrocity"-selfies, but this seemed to take the cake because the examples I'd seen of those all involved teenagers. I doubt the Post set it up, but who knows? The fact that the Post costs $1 these days is also a great surprise (and I believe they stick a higher price tag on it outside of the city.) What can I say? I don't even like looking in the mirror, so the concept of selfies is utterly foreign to me. And once, when I was working at a law firm housed on a low floor of One Rockefeller Plaza (I think that was the address; it was the old Eastern Airlines building that now houses the Today show in what used to be the Banco de Ponce facility the FALN blew up), an investment banker from Lazard Freres across the street jumped to his death, hitting a car roof one floor below my office. I had never heard such a noise or seen such a sight. I'm fairly sure I carried a small camera with me in my briefcase that day (you never know what you'll see worth photographing in NYC), but it never occurred to me to capture this moment and share it. Back to Samuel F.B. Morse -- What hath God wrought? Curtis

TC said...

Curtis,

It may be that we have in common the achievement of remaining the last people on the planet who have never made (or does one say "taken"?) a selfie.

In fact I've avoided mirrors forever and since the turn of this latest exciting century have had my picture taken exactly once (it happened before I could say no).

Well, maybe twice -- figuring one's picture probably gets taken by accident every now and then.

What a disappointment for the unwitting shutterbug!!

ACravan said...

Then again, there's this:

http://video.foxnews.com/v/2885792112001/eagle-shoots-selfies-after-stealing-camera/?intcmp=obnetwork

Curtis

Unknown said...

In view of this story that seems to be developing in new ways every day and claiming our attention, now this useful link from the localuknews.co.uk website. Wild animals do it better. Curtis

http://www.livescience.com/41749-best-wild-animal-selfies.html