Some of you, well, maybe one or two of you, may have heard of my hobby of taking pictures of discarded furniture. I set up a seperate gallery at http://www.roadsidefurniture.com/gallery/ that's also available from the right sidebar here. Went out and shot some more today.
So here's a question. Many of these fine pieces of…furniture have really cool colorful patterns. What occurred to me was that an interesting art piece could be made from the picture, mounted in a swatch of the original fabric. Except that would necessitate me slashing into the furniture; normally I'd never touch it. Seems wrong to me, vandalising junk – many will obviously never be used again, but still. A better idea occurred to me: take the picture, then load the junk into a trailer, slash my swatch, and haul it off – to where? Optimally I'd find an ambitious furniture repairman who could recover and sell the stuff. Second would be to the dump – but I have no idea where there would be a dump around here. So I think the best idea would be to load it into the VW Microbus and throw it into a ravine somewhere, a la Arlo Gunthrie. Make one big pile out of a lot of little piles, as it were.
Anyhow, speaking of piles, (are you sitting down? never mind.)rather than pile all the pictures into a single folder, I've split them up by “session”. I haven't gotten to reorganizing the original pile.
Each pile has a “hit counter” that shows how many times people have seen it. It's interesting that a few people a day hit that site. If I put a new gallery up, it'll get hit within a day. Are these just google image-spiders? And wouldn't that last sentence have sounded bizarre to someone pre-internet?