Thursday, May 08, 2008
:stripy sock photo of the week:
I’m very excited to bring you this week’s stripy sock photo of the week a) because it is a beauty and b) because it was taken by an accomplished photographer! Scoutj takes a good shot - there is a whole lot of beauty in her photo stream, but check out this beautiful boy who she shot for the amazing 100 Strangers Project. I love the idea of this project - if I wasn’t trying to write a poetry book, teach creative writing, raise two kids, grow food, make craft stuff to sell....I’d do this. I would.
I love this shot, too. Flower as weapon.
And this isn’t so much about the photography, but check out these fur-reaaky pancakes, apparently they are ‘Horton Hears a Who’ themed pancakes from the ‘International House of Pancakes’ restaurant. Woah - that’s a lot of blue food colouring.
Anyway, I digress - regarding this week’s stripy sock photo - I love this - it is atmospheric, moody, it asks questions. I love the blur, the colour.
It also reminds me of a friend I used to flat with, also called Helen. For a while we were “the two Helens” and she wore drain-pipe jeans and converse sneakers very much like the figure on the left (still does) and I wore interesting shoes and stripy socks (still do!) like the figure on the right.
I’d love this one on my wall, I reckon. Thanks so much, Scout, for letting me use it.
Hope you all have lovely weekends. I have a lot of work to do, but despite that I’m feeling pretty buoyant. Long may it last.
