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Elinda Santia
{K:338} 11/13/2003
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you are so good!!!!!
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sandy c. hopkins
{K:17107} 10/29/2003
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jim croce was my fathers favorite..
thank you for this piece..
:)
sandy
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Irenka Daniluk
{K:8011} 10/12/2003
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Amazing, creative, thought-provoking... How I wish sometimes to have the time bottle... to store it when slow and painful, and use it when needed more in happy times... But then - would it have the same wonderful happy quality? Would it be like water, taking on the taste of mixture, of would it carry taste of bitternes with it?...
Thank you for showing us another dimension of photography - is it still a photography? ;-)
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Harlan Heald
{K:15732} 10/5/2003
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Another clever construction by the Ps master. Congratulations on such excellent work!!!
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Hakan Aker
{K:14146} 10/2/2003
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I not only enjoy lookin at this beautiful image but i like reading the comments on your pics so much.Wonderful,as usual Jim.
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Kristina Kohut
{K:49990} 10/1/2003
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Oh yes... this is art! So beautiful, Jim! Very strong, interesting and so well made from thought to finished result!
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B:)liana
{K:30945} 9/30/2003
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Oh You my wonderful magic friend. Just surprising me every time. thank you dear Jim.
Kisses and Love for you, BIliana
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Ronny Van Eeckhoutte
{K:12734} 9/29/2003
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An excellent almost abstract image that is very moving. I like what you have done with the colors,
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Valter Filippeschi
{K:626} 9/29/2003
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Great Jim !!!
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Igor L.
{K:7432} 9/27/2003
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Nice work, Jim!
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Gaetan Chevalier
{K:4188} 9/27/2003
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Very creative and artistic.
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Carol Watson
{K:5185} 9/27/2003
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Great concept! I like the sparkles and rows in the sand and the combination of saturated and unsaturated colors. Is that a bottle of Bombay Sapphire Gin? :-)
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Maja Gligoric
{K:13528} 9/27/2003
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Interesting vision!
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Alberto Agnoletti
{K:12811} 9/27/2003
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Beautiful image!!!!
Best regards, Alberto
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Jim McNitt
{K:11246} 9/27/2003
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Hello, hello, hello...
I'm not sure which I enjoy more, dreaming up these confections or reading the threads they provoke. Both are immensely rewarding, although gleaning the nuggets of wisom and humor from the comments is a recurring joy. Here're two from previous "time" images that I'll never forget:
"Jim! Pity the fish weren't perch, then the bird would have had somewhere to land!" -- Chris commenting on the "fish trees" and albatross silhouette in presence of time.
"Course Catalog excerpt #2: PHYS-380: Relativistic Temporal Distortion. Classes begin yesterday, and run through last September." -- Rhonda on the clock with backward hands in "Termporal Distortion."
Craig's ability to divine my motives -- usually far more accurately than I can express them, has been downright uncanny. This time I threw him a curve ball (a type of pitch used in American baseball which, along with the fastball, sinker, cutter, slider, changeup and screwball, is designed to deceive the opposing team.)
For this scene, what I had in mind was the classic cliche -- an old rum bottle, half buried in the sand and wrapped in the foamy head of a breaking wavelet. Except instead of a "message in the bottle" (thank you, Sting), I would put "time in the bottle." That's when I starting humming the Jim Croce tune, and the whole thing shifted from an ironic allegory to a love song. From grog to perfume.
The photos I took at the beach looked as cliched as the concept. Except one series where I held the Nikon CP 5700 half an inch above the sand. There were a lot of people walking around in the background and I tried to wait until they were gone, but serendipity intervened and I missed one guy whose head was barely above the horizon line. I left him in, one discordant note of irony in what was now an ode of joy for my sweet lover. And with a romantic flourish, Rhonda even wrote that lone discord right back into the melody: "I hope he isn't looking for all the time he lost that he should have been spending with someone he loves."
One of the great oddities of modern physics is an idea known as Schrodinger's Cat. Threre's a lot of strange stuff in quantum mechanics, and this thought experiment involving a cat in a box is one of the strangest. It demonstrates in a way that no one has yet been able to refute that the presence of an observer at a subatomic event will change the outcome of the event. In the case of Schrodinger's Cat, the presence of an observer kills the cat.
When it comes to this series of images, your observations haven't killed any cats (well, not that I know about), but the comments in these threads are constantly changing the way I see my own work in unexpected and sometimes wonderful ways. Thank you, my friends --Jim
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Elizabeth Miller
{K:2766} 9/27/2003
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;>}
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Audrey Reid
{K:5872} 9/27/2003
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Thank you to you and Mari for including Jim Croce's 'Time'. Glad to have read it. Sad, true yet beautiful. This image is my favorite too.
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peta jones
{K:12615} 9/26/2003
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Well on my monitor the sand looks a good contrast to the bottle and the blue of the sky. Most has been said...great sentiment, great song, wonderful interpretation Jim.
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Danny siu-ma
{K:435} 9/26/2003
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Very good idea, but the color of the sand is so gark
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Ursula I Abresch
{K:6515} 9/26/2003
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First thing I thought was, "It's almost like a Dali." Time is a fascinating subject. I like the little, tiny person walking the other way in the back. Is that another bottle or a tin box in between the little person and the big bottle? The blues, greens, and yellow on the bottle are very beautiful, but I think that if the sand were a bit lighter it would show off the beauty of the bottle better - I don't know, maybe, maybe not.
Take care,
Ursula
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xy x
{K:41915} 9/26/2003
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nice work, good colourful too
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Craig Garland
{K:27077} 9/26/2003
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Jim; I may have been "on a roll" re interpreting your Time and Mid-life Crisis Series, but this one really has me baffled. My 1st thought was of the furrows in a cultivated field being symbolic of "furrowing of the brow"-- "fertile fields" maybe representing (potential?) growth of human intelligence? (hey, I'm a country boy and retired Forest Soil Scientist;>). But I don't know what's in the bottle-- looked like money at first, but don't really know? ....the destruction and then re-emergence of life on earth-- or anywhere in the universe for that matter? And then there's the very distant and very small person in the upper right-- well, this is one I'm going to have to think about for awhile. I think it's cool that you have the ability put this kind of thought-- and to do this kind of work. Cheers. Craig
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Gregory Fiedler
{K:15439} 9/26/2003
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Jim, I have always liked the song, and do I ever like this! Great contrast in colors, and depth. Thank you for your tips in one of my images. I know that I have much learning to do, and the need to aquire a program or two. I am presently looking at eye candy, and looking into a couple of Corel poducts. My friend you can mail me any tips you like! Please feel free! gsfiedler@yahoo.com I have been playing with photoshop and PSP for some time and I still feel like I have gone no where sometimes. That options are many. I will take all of the advice that one has to offer. Jim thank you for your sincere comments. And you! Just keep up the great works, You are giving me alot to shoot for. Regards. Gregory
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Chris Spracklen
{K:32552} 9/26/2003
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Ah, if only you could bottle it! But, even if you could, the chances are that you get some maniac going around blasting holes in those fragile containers!
The fact is, of course, a little bit of my personal sand has leaked out whilst I've been writing this. I'll never get it back! Now there's a thought!
But, Jim, the great thing about heaven is that you won't want it to end ~ and it won't!
Time to stop.
Another fascinating image from a real artist and thinker.
More power to your Wacom tablet!
Best regards, Chris.
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Mari Mar
{K:11469} 9/26/2003
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...If I could make days last forever
If words could make wishes come true
I'd save every day like a treasure and then,
Again, I would spend them with you
But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
Once you find them
I've looked around enough to know
That you're the one I want to go
Through time with
If I had a box just for wishes
And dreams that had never come true
The box would be empty
Except for the memory
Of how they were answered by you...
Jim Croce
Excellent composition, Jim!!! one of my favorites too. :)
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Rhonda Prince
{K:17687} 9/26/2003
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I've always loved that song too! Love the bottle and the sand and can't help but think of the "I Dream of Jeanie" bottle as well. The person on the horizon just tops it off, I hope he isn't looking for all the time he lost that he should have been spending with someone he loves.
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MaryBell
{K:32791} 9/26/2003
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the sand is great as is the little person on the horizon - I am not comfortable with the bottle because it doesn't fit my image- but what I really miss is just the slightest hint of the ocean...
Mary
PS look at the last image of Marion's portfolio - it explains some - I've emailed her a couple of times but I think she is quite busy....
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Naty Z
{K:16436} 9/26/2003
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great idea and strong emotional work thinking about Jim Croce's songs...
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ADAM ORZECHOWSKI
{K:7957} 9/26/2003
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Very interesting idea,and well executed.Regards,Adam
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Mário Sousa
{K:16985} 9/26/2003
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beautiful image
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Teunis Haveman
{K:53426} 9/26/2003
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Tim, excelelnt and colourful blue
Regards teunis
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Jim McNitt
{K:11246} 9/26/2003
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If I could save time in a bottle
The first thing that I'd like to do
Is to save every day
Till Eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you
-- Jim Croce
As you may know, Jim Croce died not long after writing "Time in a Bottle." His family runs a music club in the gaslight district of San Diego, called Croce's. It's a good place to eat and a great place to hear jazz. Comments welcome. --Jim
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