A Week in the Life of pegkerr, Volume VII

[pegkerr]

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Ceresota Building - 11:30 a.m. June 18, 2008

Dictionary stand at work - 2:30 p.m.

Statue of Minerva - Minneapolis Central Library - 5:15 p.m.

Here's one I really liked, where tilting the angle made it suddenly look like a staircase as drawn by M.C. Escher:

Staircase at Minneapolis Central Library - 5:20 p.m.

Minneapolis Central Library - 5:25 p.m.

Cookies at playreading - 6:50 p.m.

Detail of chair at Elise's house

Playreading group - 9:15 p.m.

This concludes this "Week in the Life of pegkerr" meme. This project has been a lot of fun (although by the end of the week, the girls were starting to strongly object every time I raised the camera). I've greatly enjoyed experimenting with off-kilter photography, and trying to find beauty in everyday objects, by seeing them from a new angle. I may continue with one shot a day for awhile (smaller size, so I don't have to put them behind a cut.)

Comments

[jbru.livejournal.com]

The photo of the library stairs comes across as Escher-esque. Very cool!

[kiwiria.livejournal.com]

Wow, that library is huge! At least compared to Danish norms. I loved the staircase photo. I think that one and the re-take of the corridor yesterday are the two best ones you took. The playreading looks like a lot of fun :)

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

It's even bigger than that: the photo only shows part of the floor, and there are several more floors.

[kiwiria.livejournal.com]

If I went into that place I doubt I'd come out for DAYS :)

[irinaauthor.livejournal.com]

I should take some photos of the Boston Public Library tomorrow. You'd love it. It's one of the most beautiful buildings I've ever seen.

[kiwiria.livejournal.com]

Yes, you will absolutely have to do that :D

[aome.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've considered continuing the meme because it was so interesting - actually, I thought about proposing that anyone interested should do a "Day in the life" on the first of the month or something, just to a) keep it going and b) see how everyone's life and scenery changes with the seasons. Or, like you, just to make a semi-regular habit of keeping up with a couple of photos.

That dictionary stand looks so ... lawyerly. ;)

What play were people doing this time? Also, is that the usual library you visit recreationally? WOW!

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

We were reading Rosencrantz and Guidenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard. We've done it before. Not my favorite Stoppard: I prefer his Arcadia.

That's the Downtown Central library. I just ran in there to get copies of the play to bring to playreading. We generally go to one of the smaller outlying ones, Nokomis Library (not least because we don't have to pay for parking).

In film/video

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

"off-kilter photography" is called "Dutch angle" after the Germans (Deutsch) because angles were widely used in German cinema of the 1930s and 1940s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_angle), and Americans cannot be expected to say "Deutsch."

Re: In film/video

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Thanks!

[seagrit.livejournal.com]

I've really enjoyed seeing these photos of your everyday life, and your "perspective" on the world around you, which things you chose to post and how you framed them. Your life is beautiful. :)

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

The staircase picture is fabulous!

Synchronicity: This very week my son B posted an entry to his Xanga journal while sitting in the library. He's the one in the family who spends by far the most time downtown, though admittedly more often at music clubs than at the library. (Not that he isn't a reader--he is very much one, reading a lot more nonfiction and serious "literature" than I do, if you don't count my work-reading.)

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for doing this! I've really enjoyed this peek into your life.

My strongest impression? Is how CLEAN! SHINY! NEW!! everything looks. (Am starting to understand why some people describe NYC as dirty.) I might have a nervous breakdown surrounded by such bandbox perfection!