The Prosaic Camera: Our House

9 12 2009

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44 responses

9 12 2009
prescott allen hazeltine

As always, I am so enjoying your view of the world, FJ…

I always see the same old thing not only again, but differently when I travel with you around in the cyberworld.

Thank you, FJ.

9 12 2009
fundamentaljelly

Hey Prescott, great to hear from you. I consider it high praise indeed coming from you. Happy holidays my brother.

9 12 2009
Vicki

More frontal please! Otherwise, very nice FJ!

9 12 2009
fundamentaljelly

Its a PG-13 blog, so no naughty bits or the word fuck. Thanks V.

9 12 2009
Vicki

LOL!

9 12 2009
yorksnbeans

It might only be a peek, but these photos speak volumes!

9 12 2009
fundamentaljelly

Cool!

9 12 2009
bschooled

I too, love seeing the world through your eyes, FJ.

(ps. Don’t tell me how the Marquez book ends, I’m reading it right now.)

9 12 2009
fundamentaljelly

I promise.

9 12 2009
bearmancartoons

Are you expecting dinner company? Why is there a table cloth on the table??

10 12 2009
fundamentaljelly

Actually we had company a couple of days prior. Not much gets by you Bear, thanks for stopping by.

9 12 2009
doll parts

hahahaha i can just hear you saying “I promise.”

10 12 2009
fundamentaljelly

I knew you would get a chuckle out of that. Hahaha

9 12 2009
doll parts

……gary?

9 12 2009
Angie

well done.

10 12 2009
fundamentaljelly

Thanks Angie, happy holidays to you guys from us.

9 12 2009
tannerleah

Moby Dick, Madame Bovary, On the Road? Holy crap, you are either really smart or do the thing that I do of putting sleeves from famous books over my Stephen King, Dan Brown, and Glen Beck collection. (Not to mention the entire Penthouse Forum collection for the last 30 years).

10 12 2009
fundamentaljelly

Its not like I actually read the stuff TL, I don’t want to lose my street cred as a real man ya know…how ’bout those Colts??

10 12 2009
delicate flower

Fake covers? splendid idea! Where can I buy them?

10 12 2009
fundamentaljelly

Maybe we could market them!!

10 12 2009
Syncopated Eyeball

Numbers 4 and 5 are particularly pleasing to my eye. I think in some ways you and I have a similar visual aesthetic.

10 12 2009
fundamentaljelly

I think we do too. My simple philosophy regarding photography is this: I am curious how the things I am seeing look when photographed.

10 12 2009
Syncopated Eyeball

As well as being creepy spooky lovely nice and a cat-person, I am a bibliophile and an avid reader. Excellent selection of excellent books, though I’ve not read them all. The Great Gatsby, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, and The Lord of the Flies are among my all time favourites. I found On the Road immensely irritating.

10 12 2009
fundamentaljelly

On the Road was boring, I couldn’t finish it.

10 12 2009
tannerleah

Amen. I really, really tried but…nothing.

10 12 2009
delicate flower

Love the colors and the perspectives on rooms!

10 12 2009
fundamentaljelly

Thanks DF.

10 12 2009
Claire Collins

Apparently, the eye for detail and design runs in your family. Thanks for the peek inside FJ!

10 12 2009
fundamentaljelly

Thanks Claire, great to hear from you…Happy Holidays.

10 12 2009
Scott Oglesby

I love your house FJ! I do miss having a nice, decorated home. This house that we’re currently living in/fixing up was ruins only 5 years ago. Also I’m so envious of your book collection; you have 3 or 4 of the best books of all time just in that one shot alone. You are a lucky guy!

10 12 2009
fundamentaljelly

Thanks Scott, I have way too many books, but I can’t help myself.

10 12 2009
nursemyra

I love the greens… and Madame Bovary is in my top five favourite books of all time

10 12 2009
fundamentaljelly

True, its a great read, thanks NM.

10 12 2009
Timm eubanks

Images remind me of when the camera fires accidentally or the first shot on the roll of film when winding. Only you FJ could make that look cool cause I know these are deliberate. May not sound like it but this is a compliment. I think you are hiding your series of Twilight books!

10 12 2009
fundamentaljelly

Thanks T, I take it as a compliment. No Twilight books as yet, but we do have all the Harry Potter books somewhere. They have been read by other members of the family, but I can’t stand the little bastard.

11 12 2009
timm

I think BKT said it recently, “if Harry Potter does magic, why does he have to wear glasses?” Brilliant!

11 12 2009
Capitalist Lion Tamer

That’s a very shy plant you have in the first picture. Did you catch it coming out of the shower or before it had it’s “face” on? Or does it just kind of hide out from your constant photography, like the daughter on the Osbournes that we never saw?

11 12 2009
fundamentaljelly

The plant was in fact naked and frankly mortified. Thanks CLT, always great to get your perspective.

11 12 2009
Pamela Villars

I love the angles and color of #4. And also the mirror shot. The more I look at it, the more shapes, textures and colors I see.

12 12 2009
fundamentaljelly

That’s my fav too PV, thanks for stopping by.

14 12 2009
Ramblin' Rooster

I’m blown away by the mirror picture. It’s dare I say, magic? I’d ask, but I know a magician never reveals his secrets, unless prompted to do so by television executives.

16 12 2009
fundamentaljelly

Its all smoke and mirrors RR, thanks man.

16 12 2009
Dan McGinley

Those books relax me . . . I want to hide away now. We have the same books, but not on the shelves. I’m afraid there is an entire library packed away in boxes. Every room should have a library or library section. Your color choices remind me of a geat sculpure artist in RI, Paul Chouquette. He used to use those colors in wall art. I sold him a huge Buick Electra once; he planted grass on the roof and painted a mural of a bird on the hood. Cool guy. RI was great. Thanks, FJ!

16 12 2009
fundamentaljelly

Paul sounds like a cool guy indeed. Good to hear from you Dan.

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