Comments on: Beautiful damage…

By: prieplemodure

prieplemodure — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:19:35 +0000

I’m the only one in this world. Can please someone join me in this life? Or maybe death…

By: Ian Jelinek

Ian Jelinek — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:20:44 +0000

Then this is for you who love “damage” such as this…. DECASIA Was “performed with a live orchestra here in NYC a few years ago at St. Ann’s Warehouse

By: ronbrinkmann

ronbrinkmann — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:44:14 +0000

Honestly, I have almost no memory of this (except I do recall some significant controversy at some point over whether or not my little brother would have to wear a Robin costume or if he could also have a Batman costume… I think he ended up as Batman too). If I had to guess I’d be willing to bet that Halloween really didn’t have anything to do with this – I/we just wanted to dress up as Batman and asked for that as a Christmas gift. It’s possible that Mom bought the costumes at halloween but didn’t give them to us ’til Christmas?

By: Gwendolyn

Gwendolyn — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:32:02 +0000

I agree that the images you’ve picked are gorgeous. But, I’m dying to know the story behind wearing the Batman costume while standing next to a Christmas tree. (Refusing to let Halloween go?) And since that photo’s you, I’m thinkin’ we have a better than even shot (no pun intended) of finding out. ;)

By: remixoverdrive

remixoverdrive — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:45:05 +0000

Hi Ron,

Those negatives/slides are amazing. I have boxes of my own I still need to go through, and I can’t wait. Thank you for sharing your picks with us, they are truly amazing!

By: Buckley

Buckley — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 07:22:06 +0000

And then there is the hidden story from the woman, unaccompanied by the sea, of her friend behind the funky glasses that she drove to the port that morning, who sailed past the horizon in search of … Batman.
Great pics, Ron. Interesting find, and good write-up.
Strange that the emulsions actually lose their color as they get older and crystallize(?).
Any idea as to who took the final picture: father or mother or budding son?

By: Olga

Olga — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 07:19:39 +0000

Ron – beautiful post. The last two photos are heart-wrenching. A memory and a feeling I also get melancholic when I look at old photos from the family archives. Something about the passage of time, about possibilities that existed…

I have been collecting old glass negatives for a few years now. Of people and places I don’t know. I choose photos that speak to me, somehow. And since in most cases I cannot find any information about those in the photos, I am writing up my own stories about them. Many of them would have been my friends, some I want to invite over for dinner, spend an evening talking and sipping wine. Photographs can be so powerful. And in unexpected ways sometimes. These hundred-year-old negatives remind me of our common humanity, that despite all the changes in technology and cultural habits and several wars in between, we are all the same, with dreams and hopes and daily pleasures. And they remind me about the passage of time.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:12:18 +0000

Thanks Ron! Appreciate the quick response. Posted the new song along with the pic. Thanks again!

By: rachel

rachel — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:56:10 +0000

beautiful photos! its as if everything, at the end of its life, turns into a painting; we are all rembrandts in the making ;-)

By: ronbrinkmann

ronbrinkmann — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:40:28 +0000

@Tim – Absolutely, use whatever you want wherever. And thanks for reminding me that I need to mark these (like everything I put up on flickr) as Creative Commons licensed. (I wish the flickr uploader let me do that by default).

And good luck with the music – I like the song that’s up there now.