Yet another plastic chair blog – And more flickr
A few months ago I found out someone had registered the domain plastikstuhl.de – today, after I had visited flickr I noticed the webspace by now is a semi-functional weblog though it has not been updated for quite a while. It is hosted by Henning from Hamburg (haven´t spoken with you so far – but cheers Henrik anyway!) aka DJ Hummus who also posted quite a flickr set of plastic chairs. That brings the number of plastic chair focussed weblogs to an amazing three, including my stuff here and Jim in Florida - who I still haven´t linked in the navigation bar since I can´t do it myself and always have to rely on Alex who is busy working and travelling all the time but does as best as he can (Cheers mate, by the way!). Don´t forget to visit Jim´s site and leave some comments if you like his stuff.
Getting back to flickr: A real funny thing happened. The original group was called “Those white plastic chairs”, which makes sense for most American monoblocks are white indeed and all this Web 2.0 stuff (if not all internet in general) is still very much a US-driven venture. I myself also started focussed very much on the WHITE chairs but then understood that colour does not make much of a difference. If you accept and embrace the plastic chair – it necessarily is ALL those chairs. Henning went one step further and turned out to be some Rosa Parks of the plastic chair population when he founded another flickr group catering for COLOURED plastic chairs too, simply called Plastic Chairs. If you ask me I´d rather see both pools united – but this is like the story goes in the early days of any civil rights movement. The chair itself is in urgent need for attention so I would not complain much.
Photo on top borrowed from DJ Hummus at flickr, Opera Tower, Tel Aviv – I have this slight pyramide thing at the moment I admit. More, little later, when the deal is done in my other weblog.
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Thanks for another mention, Jens. Also, about flickr, you may have noticed I was posting my images there for awhile and have pulled them. Most of the people were nice and gave generous comments. I got a couple of comments from a single individual that were less than friendly. He basically told me that flickr was an artists’ community and that my pictures were in no way art. I never considered them art but as depictions of art (the chair) and how people live with the art. Well, the comments turned me off to flickr and looking back he was maybe right. The photgraphs at flickr are very well composed and thought out. I don’t have quite the artistic eye that can put me in their league. So I have decided to focus on my own little project at My Live Journal Site
Hi Jens, Hi Jim!
First of all, Jens, thank you for mentioning. It’s a pleasure for me. And thanx for your comment on my blog! I should really keep on working.
Jim: please recomtinue to post your pictures at flickr. At least for Those White Plastic Chairs and the Plastic Chairs groups. I consider not only the object itself as art, but also your pictures, which I found on your weblog.
Keep on… and if that’s the problem… I’ll ban everybody who is not honoring that from the Plastic Chair group, and give you admin permissions. But, Hey! – what’s a bad comment compared to all us plastic chair photography (pcp) enthusiasts? – Come back!
Bye, and cheers from Hamburg,
Henning
Sorry guys, for not answering earlier. But here we go after all ..
flickr as an art community? I definitely don´t think so, Yahoo! would have not paid a tenth of the sum they acquired flickr for if it was supposed to be “art”. Apart from that obvious fact: Jim, your photos are well composed and everything.. I would not take these complaints serious at all.
Actually, too much beauty in many of the flickr photos is something that rather puts me off. I mean: There´s this thousands of press and magazine photos you come around every week that are supposed to look good. I am sick of seeing sunsets and stuff – and I suppose I am not the only one. flickr is a chance to show the world as it is, so far undiscovered places and objects included. To me that´s the whole idea of the platform. So I would very much subsribe to what Henning said: Keep on posting..
I should defintely upload some photos myself. Will have to get a pro account first I guess.. Couple of days .. Promise.
Maybe I should go back to flickr. The nice comments aoutweighed the bad ones by far. I got a little snippy I guess. I’m going on a tour of the southeast United States and should have a bunch of WPC pics to share when I get back.
[...] Als ich mich vor ‘nem guten Jahr bei flickr anmeldete und auf die Gruppe Those White Plastic Chairs stieß, wahr ich heil froh: fast 100 Mitglieder! Ich bin nicht der einzige Mensch, der sich für Plastikstühle interessiert. Von flickr war es nicht weit zum Kontakt zu functionalfate.org – das Monobloc-Blog von Jens Thiel aus Erfurt, der sich seit einer halber Ewigkeit mit Plastikstühlen beschäftigt. Der Macher von functionalfate.org, der mich in einem freundlichen Beitrag gar zur Rosa Parks der Plastikstuhlpopulation adelte, ist nun in einem durchaus höhrenswerten Interview von kuechenradio.org zu hören und erzählt dort allerhand interessantes zum Plastikstuhl: [...]
[...] Als ich mich vor ‘nem guten Jahr bei flickr anmeldete und auf die Gruppe Those White Plastic Chairs stieß, wahr ich heil froh: fast 100 Mitglieder! Ich bin nicht der einzige Mensch, der sich für Plastikstühle interessiert. Von flickr war es nicht weit zum Kontakt zu functionalfate.org – das Monobloc-Blog von Jens Thiel aus Erfurt, der sich seit einer halber Ewigkeit mit Plastikstühlen beschäftigt. Der Macher von functionalfate.org, der mich in einem freundlichen Beitrag gar zur Rosa Parks der Plastikstuhlpopulation adelte, ist nun in einem durchaus höhrenswerten Interview von kuechenradio.org zu hören und erzählt dort allerhand interessantes zum Plastikstuhl: [...]
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