Friday, 29 March 2013

Number 2: Arc du Triomphe

Photo Number Two: Arc du Triomphe

Photograph Number Two: Arc du Triomphe

Left: 28/March/2013 (yesterday) in a telephone box.
The message on the back reads:

Dear Stranger,

"Give up sitting dutifully at your desk. Leave
your house or apartment. Go out into the world.
It's all right to carry a notebook but a cheap
one is best with pages the color of weak tea
and on the front a kitten or a space ship."
~Ron Koertge


Yours,
SP

Happy Good Friday
Yours,
SP


Tuesday, 26 March 2013

Number 1: Vista

Photo Number One: Vista
Photograph Number One: Vista

Left: 26/March/2013 tucked in the windscreen wipers of a random car.
The message on the back reads:

Dear Stranger,
Glorious in splendour
delicate and fine
you fill the sky with luminescence
elusive in your shine

NIght by night your gaze does rest
upon the ruddy world
day by day your faintly smile
as life on life unfolds

Yours,
SP

~ I wasn't brave enough to use my own words, so I nicked a couple of soppy verses from a poem about the moon. ~

So there you have it,
Yours,
SP

Old Photo Bombs

I have a New Project:

Recently, my grandmother was staying at our house and spent her time during the days sorting through 14 years worth of photographs so that she could start to finally put them in albums, scrapbooks and folders. Clearly, after 14 years of accumulation, there were a lot of surplus photographs - ones she didn't like, had duplicates of, had strangers in them, were from a holiday no one cared about. She passed on the ones she didn't need to me and I chose a stack that I quite liked, was intrigued by, or found entertaining.
Hoarder that I am, I asked to keep them despite having no real use for them. So, after she had gone, I was left with around 30 photographs of people I didn't know standing around in sun hats or sitting on boats. Realistically, I was never going to use these photos, as much as I like them, so I thought I'd put them to use, spreading some unexpectedness and curiosity around the place.

The idea is that I will post a picture of the photo with the message on the back, and say when and where I left it, without giving the exact location. Then, if someone finds it, they can come and comment and say when they found it and whether or not they liked it... They don't have to like it. I don't mind either way really, but it certainly brightens up a rainy Easter break full of revision and little else.
I only have limited photos so this project is unlikely to last long, but I thought I'd have a go and see where I end up.

So, the first photo bomb will probably be up a little later.
I've signed off SP on all of them, standing for Some Person...

Yours,
Emily/SP