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| Josie Iselin used a flatbed scanner to take the photos for her book. |
My very best beach glass find last week actually happened at the BookShop on West Portal. And it's a book! A book by Josie Iselin.
The photos are otherworldly. Josie explains on the book jacket that she uses a flatbed scanner to take the photos ... and a whole new world opens up for me.
p.s. When I asked for permission to post her images, Josie told me that she had just returned from a fantastic sea glass festival in Cayucos. She said that she sold over 150 books in two days. WOW!!!
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| Sea Glass Hearts by Josie Iselin |
6 comments:
I can't put my brain's finger on it, but this - as you say - otherworldly photo and the proposition from your NY Times article that only fantasy are being read and written are strangely linked somehow.
I wonder what qualifies as fantasy?
this is so exciting ~ you are in some special place right now & taking advantage of it! Can you see me smiling?
Booda, it's so funny. I just re-read that quote, and both times I read it as: "Two decades of profound technological shifts have literally, biologically, rewired our brains. We all know it. We all feel it. I think new work needs to address this astonishing GIFT." ("GIFT" instead of "this astonishing SHIFT.")
I'm not sure about the link! You think? I've never had a lot of interest in reading fantasy, have you? When he said that about fantasy I thought about all the future/dystopian and Vampire books going around now for kids: stuff like The Hunger Games and The Twilight Saga(?).
Mary Ann: Yes, I see your smiling face in my scanner! (Can you imagine getting images like that with your scanner?) I'm DYING.
Oh, that misreading of yours IS funny. AND interesting.
The thing about the link is that it was ... I don't know. Maybe just the proximity of the two pieces. At first, I thought exactly what you thought about fantasy - and I don't read it. Never have.
But I myself have always been attracted to 'realistic' stories with magical aspects to them. (I mean I, myself, as a writer.) Magical might be too strong a word. I don't mean stuff with fairy dust and twinkles - I mean ... well, I've yacked long enough. Point is - there's a leeeeeetle bit of the fantasy in that. There's a little bit of the fantasy in a great deal of fiction. And if the choice was between a little bit of fantasy (but not the genre you mentioned) and the record of a painfully decaying slice of our modern culture, I'll take the little bit of fantasy every day.
Thank god there are many more choices! (Spoken as a daydream believer.)
I can see though what you mean about your animation--it's very dreamy and magical, but it's rooted in everyday life which is what I like. What is more interesting than everyday life?
Funny I used a scanner to grab all my jewelry images for my website By The Sea Jewelry way before digital cameras were around or even affordable....Can't wait to see the book!
Your images are amazing....what kind of scanner IS THAT!
~Linda
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