Amartel, lulz. I thought the same thing. The first photo is a representation of the will of the photographer in that, he knows he's fucked, but the shot is more important, but let's not forget the the photographer taking a photo of the other photographer. Doubly fucked.
I would like to see the photo that the guy shooting AT the wave ended up taking.
the photographer taking a photo of the other photographer
Reminds me of those reality shows where they are dramatically crawling through a narrow part of a cave, or struggling up a cliff and the shot is taken from either through the cave facing the spelunker or downward looking at the cliff climber. Shots taken so we can all see the pain, the struggle, the worry......
Oh the drama!! Will he make it? Um....pretty much. I think so since the damned camera AND sound guys are already through the cave filming backwards or up on top of the cliff filming downward.
Yeah. I think if the camera and sound guyys with all their equipment can make it, you should be able to do so as well. Suck it up and crawl or climb. You don't even have all that gear to haul with you. Pussy.
The sand sculpture - like all people's art - tends toward an expression of the grotesque. Why this is so I do not know. But whether it's graphic comics or tattoos what gets expressed in people's art is almost always a malformation verging on the hideous. Like those brutal heavy Mexican figurines. Another reason we need The Wall. Either that or people's art is unbearably itsy cutesy. Like those German Hummel dolls. My aunt Sadye had them all over her house and thought they were too too darling. She's been gone for decades. Doesn't matter. I still can't forgive her that gaucherie!
HA, so true. "I'm here at this location where no man has gone before (except the lighting, sound and camera guys who are producing this shot)." But maybe it's a handheld camera. The photo of the guy taking the photo of the wave is actually a better photo since it provides perspective. Also, dude appear to be aiming the camera right at the center of the wave. Sploosh.
I thought that looked like the kind of nice waves one encounters in Hawaii. I body surfed some, much smaller than that, I must say, and had fun. The big ones can kill you.
As for grotesque art - I am with ricpic on this - for whatever reason, and I assume it is the Frankfort school and the way it poisons the minds of academics, ugly is thought of as beautiful and beauty is avoided. I spent a lot of time looking at sculpture and from the Greeks, through the Roman era, up into the romantic era, even into the late 19th century, beauty was sought and reproduced in art.
World War I changed a lot of things, and I could go on and on about art history, but the bottom line is - most modern stuff isn't worth looking at. That's why so many words are included now, like those ugly wooden figures made by that ugly woman in Costa Rica - blech!
The water rushing out to form that wave is nearly washing his feet out from under him - that is a great indication of the power of the undertow. I miss being in that sort of place, just not enough to actually go.
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The second photo is a representation, in the medium of sand, of what happened to that guy's face 2 seconds after the first photo.
Amartel, lulz. I thought the same thing. The first photo is a representation of the will of the photographer in that, he knows he's fucked, but the shot is more important, but let's not forget the the photographer taking a photo of the other photographer. Doubly fucked.
The first one is what surfers call "Double overhead". The second is double under head.
The guy washed up with a reaction frozen on his face.
I would like to see the photo that the guy shooting AT the wave ended up taking.
the photographer taking a photo of the other photographer
Reminds me of those reality shows where they are dramatically crawling through a narrow part of a cave, or struggling up a cliff and the shot is taken from either through the cave facing the spelunker or downward looking at the cliff climber. Shots taken so we can all see the pain, the struggle, the worry......
Oh the drama!! Will he make it? Um....pretty much. I think so since the damned camera AND sound guys are already through the cave filming backwards or up on top of the cliff filming downward.
Yeah. I think if the camera and sound guyys with all their equipment can make it, you should be able to do so as well. Suck it up and crawl or climb. You don't even have all that gear to haul with you. Pussy.
The sand sculpture - like all people's art - tends toward an expression of the grotesque. Why this is so I do not know. But whether it's graphic comics or tattoos what gets expressed in people's art is almost always a malformation verging on the hideous. Like those brutal heavy Mexican figurines. Another reason we need The Wall. Either that or people's art is unbearably itsy cutesy. Like those German Hummel dolls. My aunt Sadye had them all over her house and thought they were too too darling. She's been gone for decades. Doesn't matter. I still can't forgive her that gaucherie!
HA, so true. "I'm here at this location where no man has gone before (except the lighting, sound and camera guys who are producing this shot)." But maybe it's a handheld camera.
The photo of the guy taking the photo of the wave is actually a better photo since it provides perspective. Also, dude appear to be aiming the camera right at the center of the wave. Sploosh.
Did some quick digging and this is from a photography house called Clark Little Photography and these stills are from Hawaii.
I thought that looked like the kind of nice waves one encounters in Hawaii. I body surfed some, much smaller than that, I must say, and had fun. The big ones can kill you.
As for grotesque art - I am with ricpic on this - for whatever reason, and I assume it is the Frankfort school and the way it poisons the minds of academics, ugly is thought of as beautiful and beauty is avoided. I spent a lot of time looking at sculpture and from the Greeks, through the Roman era, up into the romantic era, even into the late 19th century, beauty was sought and reproduced in art.
World War I changed a lot of things, and I could go on and on about art history, but the bottom line is - most modern stuff isn't worth looking at. That's why so many words are included now, like those ugly wooden figures made by that ugly woman in Costa Rica - blech!
The water rushing out to form that wave is nearly washing his feet out from under him - that is a great indication of the power of the undertow. I miss being in that sort of place, just not enough to actually go.
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