Thursday, December 22, 2005

NatGord





5 comments:

D.Macri said...

There is a distinct quality with your torontonian pictures. The people are well dressed, or look well groomed, and are somehow just "people from Toronto". It makes me think of wealth and sophistication, or stiriving to appear that way (I figure these are your friends, so I hesitate to say 'pretentious', but anyone not hiding from the camera has a degree of pretention I'd say. Maybe it's just being photogenic). The Korean look is different of course. I hope I can get my camera so I can show you some Asian rockstars and buisness people. I wonder what my rough edged winnipegger-no-style looks like from these other perspectives. I doubt it would be described as 'photogenic'.

D.Macri said...

Speaking of pretending...When are you going to post that picture of my on your balcony with "the face"? Or did you?

Quitmoanez said...

I'm not sure which one you mean?

Quitmoanez said...

And I feel like I imbue my pictures with what I feel about, in, and of, the person. This defines my attempts at portraiture I think.

And as per Walt Whitman: Am I pretentious? Well then, let me be pretentious.

:)

D.Macri said...

Witman says that too?! He has an excuse for everything. I don't care for his apparent complacency in this reappearing motto. Maybe just "...let me is/be..." would be better.

I didn't mean pretention to be an insult here. Just an adjective. Like contrivance. It depends how you interpret the word. All my art is pretentious contrivance, but so what? Imbued/contrived what is the difference really?

One of my favorite Shakespeare lines is that one: The world is but a stage and all the men and women merely players, each with their entrances and exits, and in a time a person plays many parts, each with their entrances and exits.

My Santa entrance was fun yesterday, with my uncharacteristic bellowing "HoHOHo, Merry Christmass"!

As Andrew pointed out, this is a strange cultural phenomena (or common one depending who you ask) where an entire group (adults) conspire to fool another (Kids).