Rainbow Bones
Commute (work collab)
Posted by Paul Ricciardi (Rock Hill, United States) on 1 March 2007 in Transportation.
Part of the "Work" collaborative project, messing with processing still.
Duncan Galbraith from kyoto, Japan
fantastic stuff Paul. I love the fact that all the images are carrying to some degree the signature of their creators and this is no different. The intense grain lends the image a gritty urban feel yet the high contrast negative detaches the image from the physical and real world and brings to my mind an almost trance like state Im prone to enter whenever I get behind a wheel. Im sure thats not a safe state ;) I sometimes end up thinking 'what have I been doing these last 5 minutes?' Nothing seems to have processed and I find myself a couple of miles down from my last 'memory'. Its weird how I only seem to enter those states on 'routine' journeys. for example, a work commute.
1 Mar 2007 2:20pm
Dan Hauk from Lancaster, United States
wow, I was looking through some of your stuff and I really like the high contrast that you always seem to pull off beautifully. it adds a hightened sense of emotion, whatever it may be.
1 Mar 2007 2:44pm
Damon Schreiber from Toronto, Canada
This is really terrific. In simple lines, it situates you in a familiar scene, and yet using negative processing, it's all different, which I think says something about the commute, but ambiguously - which is for me the right approach. Anyway, like many of your images, this is dreamy in a new way.
1 Mar 2007 5:20pm
Still from Valence, France
Superb and very creative image. I like a lot how you are interpreting the theme!
1 Mar 2007 8:38pm
Jenny from Manchester, United Kingdom
Interesting PP, I find it works very well with the subject.
1 Mar 2007 9:26pm
Chris Sullivan from Melbourne, Australia
As Duncan mentions I like how your carrying across your style to this series, it works very well with this subject. I kind of get that distorted feeling of following the lines on the road, as if the car could make its own way there because it's made the trip so many times. The inverted tones only adds to this sense, excellent work as always Paul.
1 Mar 2007 9:29pm
jc from Ireland
excellent image, paul .. i like the empty road ahead, for me about how eventhough we may be surrounded by people on the daily commute most of us are completely in our own worlds
1 Mar 2007 9:54pm
Untitled from Kyoto, Japan
This is very very nice. Like the way that when you commute, and it's gets monotonous, everything becomes hazy. Cool pic.
2 Mar 2007 4:28pm
Stu from Kyoto, Japan
This is radical. Hats off to you for your very original interpretation of the theme, and for your in-your-face, high contrast and grainy processing. It has a dreamlike quality that as Duncs said, seems to overcome us as we do routine journeys by car. Love your vision and creativity. You really seem to be 'outside the box'....if you get me drift. Well done Paul.
2 Mar 2007 5:13pm
Martine Lapointe from Québec, Canada
Special and beautiful! It's like in an other world...
3 Mar 2007 12:11am
