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And as time slips away -

jonathoncomfortreed

Published: Jun 21, 2011

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Project 52, week 19
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The song: Anne Louise (listen to it on YouTube here)
The lyrics:

This leathers called a seat belt Anne Louise
Your head out of the window in the coolest summer breeze
And in the air were all the things you claimed we need
They seemed to be worth less than once I did believe
And I swear to god that I'll avenge your dead
With the best lawyers of auto-politics
And I'll spend whatever money's to be spend
To try and revive your broken body again
And the penny-pitching funeral was shit
Your body in a plastic frame that I threw flowers in
And I hope to god that you'll remember me in heaven
God I hope you don't remember that in heaven
God I hope that they'll allow me into heaven
Look what I've become
Look what I've become

The inspiration:This song makes me think of regrets, broken promises and half-forgotten memories. Things we thought we were and things that never really mattered. The photo is meant to match the grungy melancholy and create that hint of what is missing and what still lingers on.

“— When I was fifteen, all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody’s reach. A place beyond the flow of time.
— But there’s no place like that in this world.
— Exactly. Which is why I’m living here, in this world where things are continually damaged, where the heart is fickle, where time flows past without a break.”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

The technique: This photo is really a memory of a great day.

My friend Michael and I were walking downtown and I found a chair on the sidewalk. Win!

We (I) carried it all the way across the town because I was determined to use it in a photoshoot. We'd been to this underpass with all of its graffiti before so we got some ice cream and headed straight for it.

I did a couple of other shots and then thought of the long exposure style. Basically I bumped up the f-stop and brought it to a couple second long exposure – then he sat in the chair until I said GO! and then he'd run out of the frame.

(And it was fun, fun, fun.)