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28-MAY-2004

Good Morning from Gregor Samsa by Fred

Konica-Minolta DiMAGE A2
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Date/Time28-May-2004 17:26:46
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ModelDiMAGE A2
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Focal Length10.6 mm
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Konica Minolta Users31-May-2004 20:43
Thank you Ingo and von Klein! I'm glad you appreciate my picture.
/Fred
Ingo Rautenberg 31-May-2004 15:13
Ah Kafka. The memories. The book is a great touch that illuminates the story. Sometimes when I wake up I feel like an insect, too.

Ingo
Guest 30-May-2004 21:50
Since I am from Kafka's beloved Prague I like this photo especially much... This is a brilliant idea. I like it a lot!
Konica Minolta Users29-May-2004 19:54
Thanks for your comments Adrian, Claudio and John. It pleases me very much that you took the trouble to deciphering the message of the picture. As you so correctly point out John, it is all about the dangers of conformism, poor Gregors gruesome fate being a punishment exactly for being too conformist. I suppose me and Gregor will not get very many points when it comes to voting, but I think I've scored high enough if the pic can point just one or two people to a fantastic author and one of his masterpieces. If you haven't read the short story, go ahead and do it. You will never be the same again....so to speak ;-)

All the best!
Fred and Gregor
Guest 29-May-2004 07:09
Hi Fred,
Nice work. Did I say nice? No problem; I can edit that out later. OK, I'm a bit partial to bugs these days, as you may have noticed, but I am in an optical magnification phase of my hobby rather than going for the full Kafka makeover as you (??) have done here (did it hurt?). The strength of your composition is in the idea and that was great in prompting me to do some research, just as Claudio said. I love things like this that not everyone gets and that reward you for making the effort to find out for yourself what it can possibly mean. You have created such a situation very well with just enough clues, even though the understated red book cover really wasn't needed to complete the puzzle, but you had to be on-topic and this was a good way of doing that. Thanks for showing us a bit more of the workings of your warped mind. ;o) I think that maybe you've been spending a fair bit of time inside your Monday Morning skull, but I'm glad you have! While you and poor old Gregor so far look like being pretty safe from having to agonise over finding a theme for C10, thanks for weaving a bit more entertaining variety into the rich tapestry of C9. :o) It's also interesting for me to be able to observe that by you being somewhat of a nonconformist in some ways with with this entry, you are in fact conforming with what I hoped would happen in C9. I'm sure that was one of your aims here, so kudos once again! :o)
Cheers, John
PShttp://www.kafka.org/klingensmith.htm
Claudio Gatti29-May-2004 02:38
Very cryptic image. It left me puzzled at what I was looking at. I had to use Google to understand it..my FK is a little weak. Thanks for triggering an interesting read

Claudio
adrianox29-May-2004 01:22
fred - ok - it took me a while... LOL! - after the bomb(s)? - i bow to the ps gods.