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Re: [OM] Nathan's PAD 1/1/2012 and 2/1/2012: swords into plowshares, so

Subject: Re: [OM] Nathan's PAD 1/1/2012 and 2/1/2012: swords into plowshares, so to speak
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:23:00 -0800
On 1/3/2012 8:21 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> The city of my birth, Wrocław in Poland, is a city with a lot of history. Too 
> much history, in a way. But now it is living what is probably the best period 
> in its 1000+ years history. I have not been back since January 2010, and 
> during those two years a lot of changes have taken place, all for the better. 
> The three pictures for the first two days of the New Year illustrate those 
> changes and how the city's turbulent history is now being transformed into 
> something nice.

Quite nice to see a city flourishing in peace while holding on to its 
historical legacy.

> Read the captions for further details.
>
> January 1st: Hala Stulecia / Centennial Hall / Jahrhunderthalle:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#1657269261_FJ3JNQ9-O-LB

It seems to me that the perspective distortion serves this image well. The 
building isn't much affected, while the newer 
monument gains a reach that makes it quite a compelling composition.

> January 2nd (two for one): a WW2 bunker that is now being put to very good 
> use:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#1657269349_nLqHn4b-O-LB

Here, at least to me, the perspective distortion doesn't serve well. As much of 
the point is the conversion of a bunker 
for war into a housing for art, the way the squat form of the bunker is changed 
takes away from the feeling. 
<http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/Others/Wajsman/bedzie_byto.htm>

Moose
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