tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753505534756028908.post2901782790937951362..comments2023-06-30T06:04:58.461-04:00Comments on Big Sky Brooklyn: Cemetery Fringes (Part 2)Adam E.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07372469830607363522noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753505534756028908.post-39832183858612600612009-06-17T00:17:58.606-04:002009-06-17T00:17:58.606-04:00I loved your cemetaries fringe text and space phot...I loved your cemetaries fringe text and space photographs. What struck me most forcefully was how much they look like "Olde-Urban-Ballyards" from the sky...<br />Ebbets...The Polo Grounds, Comiskey...Olde Briggs Field/Tiger Stadium in Detroit...Wrigley in Chi-Town...The Olde Crosley Field in Cinci... Fenway...Shibe Park/Connie Mack Stadium in Philly...The ultimate inner city field...Olde Forbes Field at the Pitt campus...The Wrigley Field in Los Angeles which was the home of THE HOLLYWOOD STARS...The minor league Angels before the early '60's expansion...and The Home of The old Home-run Derby show...and also hosted a chi-town cubs triple-A team called "The Catalina Cubs." Kezar Stadium...The San francisco Seals of The PCL. and the place where Clint Eastwood crushed The Scorpio killer in "DIRTY HARRY." GOD!!!! Is America MAD...about letting form follow function and the ecology of the city scape... We have lost so much...What about The Olde Sportsmen's Park in St. Louis which hosted the Browns before they became the Orioles in 1953, and The Cards before the last two Busch Stadiums. I think that there is an "aesthetics" in total equanimity to all nostalgia which is not bitter, maudlin, or sanguine...CMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753505534756028908.post-90811536112059482662009-06-17T00:16:56.088-04:002009-06-17T00:16:56.088-04:00Thanks for Cemetery Fringes. The incinerator and M...Thanks for Cemetery Fringes. The incinerator and Mt. Zion! And the stone cut in half (may lightning strike me), and the van with the groovy graffiti. You make these amazing discoveries seem commonplace, but I think there's genius at work here. I mean, I can't explain it, but I feel excitement at some of these shots. They instantly reveal a world that's beautiful and strange and true.<br /><br />The shots are surprising—like the colors on that abandoned van, or that open space with the parked cars beside the incinerator against the background crowded with gravestones, or the German shephard on the roof. They seem off-hand and unforced, so they're disarming, when of course we know you've searched for them and then selected them carefully—and yet they're still fresh as any discovery. It makes us wish we were with you on your mission.Stewart O’Nanhttp://stewart-onan.com/noreply@blogger.com