Alberta Terminals LTD. HDR, 1st try.

Went to Alberta Terminals LTD. / Cargill Grain Towers on St. Albert Trail and just north of Yellowhead. Took some pics. Processed'em later as HDR images. COmpositionally I don't think the images are that strong, and some of the saturated colours are overpowering or off but for the most part I enjoyed my intial foray into the world of HDR photography.

Strangers I (Authority)

Strangers I (Authority)

...only observations, such as:

Such as?

Well, for one thing her ear was purple, her left ear, I think so-- I think she'd been hit. It was purple, so some sort of impact.

Such as?

(quickly, excitedly) A fist? A kick? head-lock? Baseball game? (pausing, more seriously, slightly embarrassed) No, I don't know. Wrestling? I don't know. (looking around, long pause) Have?-- It hurts to be hit in the ear; I've been, it really burns, and you can feel the blood-- and it really burns.

Her ear?

Oh right, maybe she was hit on a cross walk. You could probably check that. Maybe a car came into the cross-walk, taking her legs out from under her, (gestures, flat left hand flying perpendicularly towards right hand) like pushing her feet away, but sideways-- and she was jumping (looking up, imagining) jumping up and the car caused her to rotate, caused her left ear to smash into the hood. It'd have to be a car though. And everyone around would have told her that she was so lucky, people say things like that. But maybe walking home she'd be remembering everything, her her slow-motion hood-banging and crashing and what they said, their advice, and maybe she'd come to the conclusion that she wasn't really lucky, being hit by a car. Her ear.

(unscrews cola bottle, takes a small sip, twists cap back on) Oh!

Yes?

Her face, her, it seemed like an ape's. Well, not like an ape's, more like one of those sculptures made by forensics-- sculptors. The dead hookers and the neanderthals. I know it's not a nice thing to say. But she seemed to be made of clay and pig's teeth. Her hair was dry and curly and twisted, twisty-- powdery, light brown. I think she wore a jacket with a suede collar. I think her jeans were regular, blue. Her ass, I couldn't see for sure, didn't look very good. Nothing against her, it's just, her jeans. I don't know. And her coat maybe too. It wasn't very attractive.

This was at the VIA rail depot, 11pm?

I think she was waiting for her honey.

Infant Innocence by A. E. Housman

Infant Innocence
by A. E. Housman

The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild;
He has devoured the infant child.
The infant child is not aware
It has been eaten by the bear.

Erich Fromm Interviews

Erich Fromm interviewed by Mike Wallace

Pt.1. Fromm on Man's relation to Work and Society:


Pt.2. Fromm on Love, Religion, Values, Freedom, Happiness and Democracy:


Pt.3. Fromm's defense of Socialism, praise of Marx, concerns for the future: