- jesus christ superstar... i'm a liitle confused that you have a book with the title "creature" :) sounds too religious / sect.ical / fanatical for you :) maybe the book is waiting as you cut it into pieces with your clear and sharp as a knife mind :) - gundogma
- never expecting such shabby, worn out thing in your house! :))) - gundogma
- very unpleasant dead pink tones :) ususally your pictures never has unpleasant tint ! :) - gundogma
remember to thank all the books you haven't read over the past three years
If I've been more gone from Flickr than usual, it's because I'm preparing for an academic conference on the subject of new trends in serialized television in an era of instant Internet access. My paper, entitled In Defense of Time Spent Watching TV, will address those aspects of the experience that have the most potential for enriching and educating the ambitious viewer.
I will post downloadable English and Polish versions of the
presentation to my website and provide a link when they are ready.
Meanwhile, you can read a first draft in article form, courtesy of artmag Y Sin Embargo. My perhaps wordy and chaotic entry is entitled Life on the Download: What's New on TV? and I vote you wait for the remake, abridged and illustrated, coming
soon.
Definitely part of Scenes From a Life.
Comments and faves
Moser's Maroon, elplandeabajo, Marianne Capuano, Yogma, and 162 other people added this photo to their favorites.
Jazzguy3170 (40 months ago | reply)
I look forward to reading your paper. As soon as I turn off the TV. Oh wait, Top Chef is on.
Donato Buccella / sibemolle (40 months ago | reply)
wow!...very nice, I can understand a lot now about dhe deep of your photography...
Moser's Maroon (40 months ago | reply)
very, very recognizable indeed....! Good luck on your paper.
sunshadows (40 months ago | reply)
Congratulations
.on a great pile of books.
.a great article.
.now I know why I watch antiques roadshow.
.pixie dust.
Marianne Capuano (40 months ago | reply)
Love this shot!!
..and good luck for your academic conference!!! :)
Dr. Skipper (40 months ago | reply)
I grew up in house full of books...
antipodeuse (40 months ago | reply)
yes, good luck with your paper.
my defense 'for time spent watching tv' is purely educational as i was french tv to get my french up to speed.
not very relaxing though!
these books look well read..
Yogma (40 months ago | reply)
Can't wait for your paper! I took a class taught by the San Francisco Chronicle's tv critic, Tim Goodman and he made me appreciate and be more critical of serialized dramas than before. And I was already a tv junkie to start with too!
tlate hiin (40 months ago | reply)
lol! good luck with your presentation!
Southcoasting (40 months ago | reply)
I have piles and piles like that, desperately lonely unread books, in search of a reader.
So many words you write. I don't know what I think about TV serials. I love the arty intelligent ones, and I love a good sit com. But soaps Eastenders, Coronation Street) and the endless serials (Casualty, the Bill) feel like a waste of my time. But I cannot get into internet watching, or even DVDs for that matter. I like the feeling TV gives of being an old friend in the corner of the room - not an entertainment tool but a part of the family. You have to take notice; turn it on at the right time. It makes its own demands.
unbound67 [deleted] (40 months ago | reply)
life is richer without television
(imho)
maria........ [deleted] (40 months ago | reply)
me gusta..........
Cryptia. (40 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called *Book Sniffers*, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
ɐNNɐ (40 months ago | reply)
I like the structure and textures in the photo...:) and I am looking forward to check out your paper! me + tv = a little. But I dont connect the title with the subject...hm... do you mean something like this: now we can watch tv instead of reading books...? :) I like revolutionary statements:) but it is true: books are staying in the shadow nowadays... shame.
anjouwu (40 months ago | reply)
Fascinating. I look forward to reading your article!
motorynka13 (40 months ago | reply)
me too :)
mags_Tag (40 months ago | reply)
I adore this. the view you chose is so interesting and appealing. well done. (seen on Explore)
ailatan (40 months ago | reply)
Thank you, everyone. I like that you like this photo [even if an instrumental one of you complains about the hue], and I'm heartened by all your kind encouragement, and hoping to put in a solid day of work in that crazy PowerPoint.
A solid afternoon and evening, anyway.
motorynka13 (40 months ago | reply)
loads of books and work (You have done!!!!)
ailatan (40 months ago | reply)
Oh, and one more thing. If you had checked the geotag, you'd know that these aren't my books, nor are they cluttering my house. They're a second-hand bookstand scene from the underground corridor in the train station in Kraków. Though they are likely not the books I would have read, had I not been so busy watching at the time, my guess is they indicate a comparable volume of content-time to the 1300 hours or so I've spent in front of mostly crime and conspiracy dramas since the fall of 2006. [That's a cursory calculation, and since there are roughly 100 books in the image above, I suppose it would take twice that to really amount to two hours of reading a day, but I might be off considerably.]
Aussie Hobby (40 months ago | reply)
Lovely composition,
Good Luck
motorynka13 (40 months ago | reply)
it doesn't matter if these were your books or not or how much time has been spent reading or not - a huge work is done
Fer Jimenez (40 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called "Books- Libros- Livros- Libri", and we'd love to have this added to the group!
SingleDadLaughing (40 months ago | reply)
Wow, this is a really wonderful image.
I found it in Explore too! Congratulations, it made it among the best!
Can't wait for the next one, keep up the great work and drop by sometime!
Ben Kimball (40 months ago | reply)
I couldn’t wait for the remake. And it was worth the not wait :o)
Very thoughtful essay on the present-day status of episodic television. So much of it rings true and feels familiar. While I wouldn’t say I watch a lot, I do have a handful of shows that hook me from time to time. Your description of consuming the first two seasons in one marathon month of DVD candy binging, followed by intense and can’t-wait-for-it-hours of “succumb to the urge to find out what happens next” (love the way you put that), perfectly describes my trajectory with LOST. And I agree with your assertion that paradoxically such viewing can actually lead to eased and in-depth real-world social interactions. I think it would freak me out otherwise.
very cool that you're focusing on the positive aspects that enrich and educate. good luck with the paper and the conference!
Joana Roja - working long hours, mostly away (40 months ago | reply)
... trashbit!!!
photo.monkey (40 months ago | reply)
congrats on explore.....great work!
augusto rosa (40 months ago | reply)
love the pile!... I am looking forward to check out your paper, good luck!!
cocoaloco (40 months ago | reply)
nice!!
sardinia's_mirton (40 months ago | reply)
I thank all books, all men that wrote every single book that i can read now.
gundogma (40 months ago | reply)
ha :) now i know why the books - their colour, condition and titles didn't match to the image of books i remember you have in your cute home :)
and as an accountant i appreciate your calculations - accountants like when everything is beatifully calculated because they are spiritual heirs of The Pythagoreans :)
and read your article - very funny witty and forget-me-notty :) waiting impatiently for full paper :)
fernandoprats (40 months ago | reply)
Yes, definitely.
flickrolf (40 months ago | reply)
ok, so calculated flickr may have prevented me from reading about
2-300 Books in the last two years. That´s quite something.
udkaya (40 months ago | reply)
Good luck in your way! I am glad for know you trough flickr
principonemio (40 months ago | reply)
This shot is absolutely beautiful and you're an artist, we would like to add it in our fine group, thank you!
MEEEOOOW! YOUR SHOT MAKES ME DREAM! PLEASE JOIN US IN:
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Sue Salem Photography (40 months ago | reply)
This sounds fascinating. I've been thinking a great deal the past two months about the cultural impact of the internet and how it's changing the way we experience "down time"; I look forward to reading your article!
NightPhotographer (40 months ago | reply)
cool!
Rococo57 (40 months ago | reply)
Since there is flickr, the books are so lonely
visitpaul (39 months ago | reply)
Great photo! I've used it in my blog visionadvancement.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/5- things-that-...
Please check I've referenced you properly.
I love all your other work, too. Hopefully I can use more of your stuff.
Cheers,
Paul
bubs1223 (39 months ago | reply)
Nice image and very interesting topic. I look forward to reading your article. I work in the television industry and, except for movies, I hardly watch tv myself.
vittifx (39 months ago | reply)
Very particular i like your fhoto!
Fer Jimenez (38 months ago | reply)
Read is GREAT!!!
""This wonderful photo was seen in "BOOKS"
elplandeabajo (38 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Las Fotos del Patrón, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Pagan Moth (38 months ago | reply)
anonymous loves
lovedart. (34 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called True Magic, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
AJM at Chichester (20 months ago | reply)
Hi, I love this toppling tribute to literature. We run a new online forum called THRESHOLDS, a University of Chichester (UK) site for readers and writers of short stories: www.chiuni.ac.uk/shortstoryforum.
We'd love to be able to include this shot in our reserve of images for possible use at some point in the changing banner of the site. We're an academic site so cannot offer a fee, but our membership spans 5 continents and, in the last 2 weeks for example, we've had over a 1,000 visitors - so there's the exposure potential and a photo credit of course. If you're interested, please email us at thresholds@chi.ac.uk with the subject of MY FLICKR PHOTO.
The JPG image size we need for the banners is 600 x 240 pixels, which we know is an odd size and means that, usually, photos will need to be resized to fit. Resizing down is better that trying to resize up, so if the right size isn't available, our design team requests that larger ones are provided by the phtographer so that they can then be (sensitively!) cropped.
Hope to hear from you!
syymza (10 months ago | reply)
Hi.. i'd like to use your image for in a website i am building as a default image for the "literature" category. I will put you in the credits page, of course. Do you allow me?
jessica_mobius (3 weeks ago | reply)
I've used your photo in the program cover for the Annual MOBIUS Conference. (MOBIUS is a consortium of 66 Missouri libraries.) You're credited in the program.
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Thanks for artwork!