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The Sisters of Mercy Part 6 & 7.
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Timmers
Loc: San Antonio Texas.
Stick the fork in it, it's done!
But number 5 and also number 10 tell you something is not good!
But number 5 and also number 10 tell you something is not good!
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Mar 18, 2019 05:54:35 #
Timmers wrote:
Stick the fork in it, it's done!
But number 5 and also number 10 tell you something is not good!
But number 5 and also number 10 tell you something is not good!
Can't see much point in so many same same pics. Action maybe but??
Mar 18, 2019 08:02:54 #
Mar 18, 2019 10:17:18 #
Timmers wrote:
The search for the solution, some solution that is bound to please!
It's unfortunate that you spent so much time and energy on these snapshots when you could learn so much from others who have posted today such as Vertigg, Tonne and especially Robeng.
Mar 18, 2019 10:51:45 #
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Mar 18, 2019 11:01:43 #
At last.....after all these years since Grammar School, I find out it's true....they do shave! But not their heads! Wow! Wait until I get the word out to all the guys from St. Alphonsus School!
Mar 18, 2019 13:38:07 #
Timmers
Loc: San Antonio Texas.
cambriaman wrote:
At last.....after all these years since Grammar School, I find out it's true....they do shave! But not their heads! Wow! Wait until I get the word out to all the guys from St. Alphonsus School!
Gee, I'm so sorry I was not being historically accurate, I guess I should have issued Merkins to them!
Mar 18, 2019 16:11:54 #
What's with the Nun's, hedonistic women have been around for centuries, and the protestant movement has it's share of kinky women in history. Don't forget "Gaberate" may be about decadent Berlin, but it came about because of the Weimar government, and decadent London, Paris and Rome offered the same attractions, when civilizations starts to colapse, the perverts and kinky population come out from the woodwork. Pornography is at least 2000 years old, so nun's are just one element of the kinky world as in "Kamasutra".
Mar 18, 2019 18:25:43 #
Timmers
Loc: San Antonio Texas.
anderzander wrote:
What's with the Nun's, hedonistic women have been ... (show quote)
Shhhh, stop it! You will get the sleepers to find out about a history that is denied, buried and as Poe's crow "Never more!" squawking.
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The first pornographic photograph was made two and a half years after the Daguerreotype was announced. One of the assistants to Daguerre hired a Lady of the Evening (prostitute) and a taxidermist with a stuffed donkey to attach a fake erect penis so it would appear that intercourse was occurring. Four Daguerreotype were taken. As he tried to pedal his wares he was discovered, arrested and assigned for his day in the Paris court.
All charges were dismissed as the evidence had mysteriously disappeared! Gosh, lucky guy he dodged the bullet! But what happened to the evidence? Private collections, that's what. One of these Daguerreotypes founds its way into a public collection, but of course it is buried kept from public view less the blue noses should discover it and demand the collections destruction.
But it is quite beautiful and technically accomplished! The Daguerreotype are quite tiny and intimate little jewels. No, I will not reveal its location, but there it is.
By the way, I regard the work as contextually brilliant as a placement for history. If we travel back to the era of the high Roman Empire there were the annual games in the Circus Maximus. Breaks were made in the large spectacles, and for those breaks one favorite was some of the best prostitutes would in a group have sex with a donkey until he collapsed from exhaustion, additional payment was made if the donkey expired!
I learned of this from my Latin Teacher, Professor Fabian, master linguist who loved telling amazing stories to his students of the history of The Roman Empire.
So, these things have history if you are privileged to have a deep and broad understanding of such things. Like the wonderful book by Thomas Wolf The Painted Bird in which a your Jewish boy is left to grow up by his parents in the southern veld during World War Two. In the book we find our protagonist perused by a German solider and to escape the solider he leads him to a set of rotten boards that he gets across but collapses under the soldiers weight, where he falls into a large deep hole filled with hunger rats who then eat him alive. Later he is given a kindness from a young woman who he later spies on as she was sex with the family swine as her father and brother watch.
Gunter Grass wrote the Tin Drum, it is loaded with the twisted violent episodes of the life of a child's view of Nazi Germany, it is loaded with metaphors of sexual pleasures and misconducts. Of course we now know that Gunter Grass can not be taken seriously as it was discovered that he had joined the Waffen SS late in the war as a youth! His story that he had to if he wanted to survive, I guess he thinks we just fell off the wagon!
Nothing happens in a vacuum. Nothing said so far has dissuaded me from my position that this body of work, The Sisters of Mercy is not important and significant. Yet thanks to those who are enjoying the view mostly. One of the things about the set is lost in the many images, that of the way the women's skin literally glows, as though it is made of butter or marzipan, so scrumptious!
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Mar 18, 2019 19:09:02 #
I really see no purpose to these. No artistry, no creativity, nothing positive at all. For the entire series I have been shaking my head wondering if / when it would end, would a purpose evolve. Hasn't happened, doubt it will, total waste of storage space. Now be advised this is my first such caustic comment on this forum.
Mar 18, 2019 19:33:44 #
Timmers
Loc: San Antonio Texas.
Jim Tonne wrote:
I really see no purpose to these. No artistry, no creativity, nothing positive at all. For the entire series I have been shaking my head wondering if / when it would end, would a purpose evolve. Hasn't happened, doubt it will, total waste of storage space. Now be advised this is my first such caustic comment on this forum.
Jim, thank you for having an opinion and stating it in a clear manner. I truly mean that. Being snipped at with one and two word comments or comments that are so poorly constructed that I'm not sure what is being meant in the wording, is a waste of everyone's time.
This is an interesting forum, this Hog, it gives rise to ideas and a place to receive in put for work that is being created. The worst is when there is no response but negative responses help to see what others think and feel.
An artist can not advance anywhere with out showing work, be that work controversial or just lame, one needs to show the work and let it stand in the view of others.
Again, thank you for your consideration of my work.
Mar 18, 2019 20:04:14 #
Timmers wrote:
I'm pleased with this project.
In my opinion they are just snapshots taking a poke at the Catholic religion. Surely you have a better format to practice your craft.
Mar 21, 2019 03:10:56 #
Ah, yes, the digital era when anyone can be a "photographer" if you use the mantra of "spray and pray" (pun on the last word when used in this thread). Trouble is, Tim is batting less than 1 in 100 in "getting the shot"(OK, I didn't count the number of shots in this series, but you get my drift).
The lighting is blah-flat; the setting is unimaginative and not in context (you could have created a chapel, alter, or simple bed in a bare-bones dorm room); the poses are far too static and do not convey action with the paddle or whips (how about some blur of the whip fronds); the nuns are smiling at the wrong times and clearly aware of (looking at) the camera; there is not enough "pain/pleasure/passion" in their expressions; and I could go on... and on... and on... (like the series) with what is technically wrong with this series.
As I have commented in other threads by Tim, I thought UHH was about photography, not soft porn/kink documentary. There are plenty of other forums where this type of stuff is probably appreciated better... and where the quality of the photography is irrelevant.
Tim, sorry to say, but I don't find your work to be an exemplar of what I would expect from someone with an MFA degree.
The lighting is blah-flat; the setting is unimaginative and not in context (you could have created a chapel, alter, or simple bed in a bare-bones dorm room); the poses are far too static and do not convey action with the paddle or whips (how about some blur of the whip fronds); the nuns are smiling at the wrong times and clearly aware of (looking at) the camera; there is not enough "pain/pleasure/passion" in their expressions; and I could go on... and on... and on... (like the series) with what is technically wrong with this series.
As I have commented in other threads by Tim, I thought UHH was about photography, not soft porn/kink documentary. There are plenty of other forums where this type of stuff is probably appreciated better... and where the quality of the photography is irrelevant.
Tim, sorry to say, but I don't find your work to be an exemplar of what I would expect from someone with an MFA degree.
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