The Words of the Photographs

Bill Draheim said:
I really like the idea of photos and stories. Glad I found this thank you JillyG. How long do you want the stories to be?
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In my opinion not so short, not so long.
You can have an idea looking the existing posts (as examples).
The important thing is that the audience can understand your human-artistic expression (sense and sensibility), with/in the relation between words and photographs.
Sometimes your inspiration start with an image/photograp, other with words (poem, song...). Of course you need to follow the general rules of Mobitog.
IMHO. Venomator?
Welcome aboard! :cool:
 
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Bill Draheim said:
A quick question for those of you out there. If I post something and like it on my FB page do the subsequent comments from here follow to my FB page? Thanks
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'Fraid not Bill, the site software is not that sophisticated... :coffee:

That said, I cannot see BookFace permitting such interactions anyway... :rog:
 
"Green That I Want You Green"
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iPhone 4s: H312
iPad: Gloomlogue, Typorama

"Verde que te quiero verde.
Verde viento. Verdes ramas.
El barco sobre la mar
y el caballo en la montaña.
Con la sombra en la cintura
ella sueña en su baranda,
verde carne, pelo verde,
con ojos de fría plata.

Verde que te quiero verde.
Bajo la luna gitana
las cosas la están mirando
y ella no puede mirarlas."

From the poem: "Romance Sonámbulo"
Federico García Lorca. Spanish poet.
 
Glenton said:
"Green That I Want You Green"
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iPhone 4s: H312
iPad: Gloomlogue, Typorama

"Verde que te quiero verde.
Verde viento. Verdes ramas.
El barco sobre la mar
y el caballo en la montaña.
Con la sombra en la cintura
ella sueña en su baranda,
verde carne, pelo verde,
con ojos de fría plata.

Verde que te quiero verde.
Bajo la luna gitana
las cosas la están mirando
y ella no puede mirarlas."

From the poem: "Romance Sonámbulo"
Federico García Lorca. Spanish poet.
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It's a beautiful poem Rodolfo and a lovely image accompanying it. Great processing. I must look at Gloomlogue.
 
Bill Draheim said:
I took the post down as I wasn't sure I could post it here. It' okay?
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Hey Bill, the OP has actually posted an open invitation for others to join in, with their contributions to the thread, so if you believe your offering is appropriate to the style of the thread then it seems there is nothing to prevent you posting here... :thumbs:

If you change your mind I can reinstate your post, to save you re-doing it, just let me know if you would like me to do so... :D

Alternatively, you could start your own story thread if you feel it would be more appropriate... :rog:
 
Glenton said:
"Green That I Want You Green"
View attachment 75494
iPhone 4s: H312
iPad: Gloomlogue, Typorama

"Verde que te quiero verde.
Verde viento. Verdes ramas.
El barco sobre la mar
y el caballo en la montaña.
Con la sombra en la cintura
ella sueña en su baranda,
verde carne, pelo verde,
con ojos de fría plata.

Verde que te quiero verde.
Bajo la luna gitana
las cosas la están mirando
y ella no puede mirarlas."

From the poem: "Romance Sonámbulo"
Federico García Lorca. Spanish poet.
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Lovely as always, Rodolfo!
 
Some good news and some bad. The writer William Gosline is finishing his MFA and is going to submit Jury Selection into publication upon completion. As some of you know the pristine publications request exclusives. As a result he requested that all copies be taken down including those on both of our websites. You can however read the rest here for a limited time only. I will inform you when this and the rest of Jury Selection gets published. Thanks
Bill
 
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Bill Draheim said:
Jury Selection Chapter 1


In which Goodson Alan Grimmer meets Mr. Alistair Masterson, a man of stately mien and poise, at the inception of the event.

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Chapter 1



“All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities.”

Richard Dawkins

Jury Selection has always been intense.

On the day of the selection, I and a hundred other Citizens were led into a large vestibule and made to wait. The cobalt door we had entered through was shut behind; the far door likewise closed. We lingered in this purgatory for what must have been only minutes, but in the cramped confines, pressed against the hot bodies of other Prospective Jurors, time faltered.

There was little to occupy us. The walls were bare but for one fixture: an ancient oil portrait of Judge Seagram, the great adjudicator, hung above the exit door. Limned in his later years, the legendary Juror’s hawkish face scowled between a scarlet tippet and cropped graying hair. Despite the angle at which his head was turned, the artist had elected to depict his one flaw: his right eye, which was said to have wandered of its own accord.

I knew of that particular defect just as I knew of many things. I had done my homework, for I intended to be selected.

“Ironic, isn’t it?” the man next to me had been following my gaze. “Justice is said to be blind. Did you know that the father of the Jury Selection Process was, in fact, blind in one eye?”

I told him that I did.

“The State exerts considerable effort to keep it from becoming common knowledge. I imagine few of this lot are aware,” he indicated the crowd about us with a dismissive thrust of his jaw before turning to me and offering his hand. “Masterson, Alistair Masterson.”

We had all been checked for weaponry before admission; I decided there was little danger in accepting it: “Grimmer, Alan Grimmer.”

“Alan Grimmer, of the Grimmer family?” I saw no need to explicate. “A bit high in the levels for all of this, aren’t you?

“Why I should be here is none of your concern.”

He frowned and nodded, “Yes, well…. In any case, I’m glad to see that you’ve kept fit.”

People often betray their vanities by bringing up in others what they want attention brought to in themselves. Though I guessed he must be at least a dozen years older than me, I had no doubt that his double-breasted suit—a pretentious anachronism in itself—hid extravagant physiological modifications. Yes despite whatever purchased youth he may have elected to have had done, Masterson sported the same salt-and-pepper hair as Judge Seagram. Another affectation: no one had gray hair unless they chose to.

“I understand there is a physical component to the selection process,” I replied.

“You have no idea,” he murmured and turned back to scan the crowd. Most were staring at some form of DigitlEx: üfones™ or Pholios™ among other brands and contraptions. A few had their eyes closed, presumably using D.I.S™ to access the Æthernet.

“The world is full of irony, my young friend,” Masterson said wistfully. “Judge Seagram would turn over in his grave if he saw how things have turned out.”

“It’s important for Society that all be allowed opportunity. The Selection is no exception. I’d wager that it is, in fact, the reification of such egalitarianism.”

“Yes, yes: ‘The Shining Ideal.’ Of course, Goodson Grimmer,”

And with that our conversation ended.

A horn sounded, and the entrance to the Forum opened. A man—or was it a woman? The figure wore the panoply of the Riot Authority, making it impossible to tell—stepped into the room. Its disembodied voice, metallic and

“Jury Selection will commence shortly,” the Authority’s voice came harshly metallic through its mask. “Digital Extensions are prohibited henceforth and must be deposited in this receptacle,” the Authority placed a white plasteel basket to the side of the entrance. “Electronic implants and D.I.S.™ will be disabled by EMP Flash™ upon crossing the threshold. Refusal to comply will result in disqualification effective immediately.”

I had painstakingly gone over the application and so of course had not brought any such device, but the sudden eruptions of protest and bewilderment evinced no such foresight on the part of my fellow Prospective Jurors.

A woman turned toward me, her wattled face rippling with disapproval. “Did you hear what the Authority said?” she demanded. “I don’t think I heard him correctly. There must be some sort of mistake!”

Others clucked in sympathy. I ignored them and instead followed Masterson who was already striding to the front of the room. He had identified my Level Origin immediately; no doubt he hailed from the Upper Levels as well. Of any present I guessed he would be my fiercest competition: I would need to keep an eye on him.

The horn sounded a second time, silencing the babble. Again the voice grated: “Noncompliance will result in immediate disqualification. If you choose not to give up your personal effects, leave as entered. Otherwise proceed to the entrance.”

At these last words, the door we had come through slid into its housing to provide retreat for those who would not go on. Yet still no one moved. The Authority slipped its Riot Cannon™ off its shoulder and trained it on the crowd. A wave of gasps rippled through the room. A cold thing awakened in my gut. I did not wish to be caught in a stampede, nor did I desire pacification by the Authority. I decided it was time to raise my voice.

My wife has told me that my readiness to intervene in situations that do not concern me will be my undoing. But one cannot change one’s fundamental nature. We are all cut from our own cloth and the Apotheosis says that our greatest weakness is paradoxically, also our greatest strength. In my case, this fundament would be the overarching compassion that I hold for every Citizen of the State, regardless of Level Origin.

“The Authority is trying to help. If you want to have a chance at Jury Selection, you’ve got to part with your Extensions: at least for the time being,” My words were met with vacant stares. “If you’re not comfortable letting those things go, just go back the way we came. It was in the contract that we all signed.”

“Star you, wing nut!” Someone yelled.

Another: “You’re not the Authority!”

And another: “You think you’re better than the rest of us?”

Masterson, who was now quite a ways ahead of me, turned back and shrugged in seeming sympathy, though a triumphal glimmer in his eyes belied it. I felt as though there were some lesson he expected me to learn, some challenge tacitly issued in his mute gaze.

The wattled woman pushed by as she headed back to the entrance, holding her Pholio™ tightly against her bosom. “They should have told us,” she grumbled. “They should have said something.”

Oh but they had told us, I thought. They had told us many times and in as many different ways. But it was dreadfully hot in that room and simmering with panic, and I wanted to be gone.

The Authority was as a statue at my approach; it moved neither head nor limb. Here was True Authority, inherent in weaponry and armor, replete in pose and frisson. I envied the individual behind the mask. Who could know which one of us it watched? Perhaps it watched us all, in simultaneity: this can be managed nowadays; such is the sophistication of our State technology.

I showed the Authority that I held nothing in my pockets and crossed the threshold into the hallway beyond.

Chapter 2 next week

Written by William Gosline
Photo by Bill Draheim using a Samsung Convoy flip phone
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This is fantastic! Again, the perfect image to go with the story. By the way, are we ever going to hear more about the "blob" thingie in the nuclear reactor?!
 
"Turn, turn, turn"
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iPhone 4s: Pure
iPad 3: Mextures, Matter, OVLA, Tangent, LoryStripes, Trigraphy (Este)

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, a time to reap that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

Pete Seeger, Book of Ecclesiastes
The Byrds (1965)
 
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Glenton said:
"Turn, turn, turn"
View attachment 76654
iPhone 4s: Pure
iPad 3: Mextures, Matter, Tangent, OVLA, LoryStripes, Trigraphy (Este)

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, a time to reap that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

Pete Seeger, Book of Ecclesiastes
The Byrds (1965)
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:inlove:
 
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