I had started to write something about this picture being so timeless and that it could have been taken 50 years ago - and now Frank has said it so much better...
I think you can be relatively sure that in another fifty years people will still enjoy looking at it if they find it during an excavation ;-) Will a picture taken of some kids staring at a computer screen look charming or interesting in fifty years time - or will it look just as boring as it does today? Sven -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- Von: frank theriault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Samstag, 15. Mai 2004 14:55 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: RE: PAW - That Darn Ball! Shel, Stop it, you're killing me! <g> Where to start? Well, first off (and I know I've mentioned this at least once in relation to others in this series), it's so timeless! Wearing jeans and a sweatshirt, this kid could be from any era in the last 50 or 60 years! There are no other time cues in this photo that tell us when it was taken. It's a photo of Youth. Kids are kids, and they never change their essence. Well, maybe one thing's changed: these days, do kids still go out and play with balls? I guess they do, but unfortunately they're more likely to be seen in front of a screen playing the latest Jet Li computer game, making blood spurt all over the inside of a computer, but I digress... ... >From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: PAW - That Darn Ball! >Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 04:32:27 -0700 > >It's that ball again ... it's appeared in so many photos of the kids from >the old neighborhood in San Francisco. > >http://home.earthlink.net/~scbelinkoff/paw/boy_with_ball.html > >As always, comments, criticisms, and the tossing of tomatoes are welcome. > >Shel Belinkoff > > _________________________________________________________________ http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=htt p://hotmail.com/enca&HL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines
