Surreal Video ~ The Soul of Montreal ~ Light, Shadow, Reflections ~ Part 3 of 3

Awesome!

Thank you very much, Darin. These take forever....................

I'm not sure I would call this surreal,as it lacks the odd juxtapositions that characterize this style. But you have a sharp eye, and this is a good photo essay.

Thanks for sharing with Gather's Best Writers and Artists.

It is part of a series I called Surreal; the surreal part is in the concept; not visually surreal, but we need to question our perceptions - the three video essays follow that theme.

The soul of a woman followed the theme of images of women in still media - posters and store windows - and if we do not look like those or if we fade away - are we not the same? Yes. The first and the third videos focus on perception and realtiy.

The second video slide show was on jazz, food, and life.

The surreal aspect is subtle.

I took the photos in Montreal with the concept of 'perception' in mind.

It was later I thought of putting them in a video slide show, after I had done the first one - Tybee Beach.

After all, surreality is a concept; concepts happen in the mind.

Suureality does not neccessarlily mean musically they will have unorthdox key changes or chord or other musical novelties;

in art or in writing, surreality does not necessarily mean (though it often includes the following) that art may be dripping (Dali) or prose may be synaesthetic (Boris Vian, himself a synaesthetic) but the concept behind all of these and behind mine has a surreal aspect to it.



I think that clarification might help, yes?

The refelctions in the buildings are surreal; the shadows, too, a bit; and therre are two buildings that include a lot of optical illusion:

Two especially surreal are the large multi-faceted glass building; and Ogilvie Dept. Store, when I shot directly into the window in 2008; Mannequins inside the window merged with passersby and a police car and other buildings from outside the window, makig it surreal.

One is a building at the architecture school, , and what looks like a gate is part of the building; the only parts not part of the building are the traffic light and the tree. So this building is surreal because it is mostly illusion on several levels. Unfortunately, the quality of the photo is not sufficient to really show that. I was in a rush with my famiy.

And the Garment District Building which has reflections painted on, instead of actual reflections, offers a surreal aspect.

Montreal, despite its horrible winter climate, has specialized in skin-and -bonds glass architectural styles, and also has done an excellent job of creating new buildings next to old ones, preserving the old and creating new buildings next to them.

The Boston John Hancock reflects the old Hancock in its new glass building (the New Hancock windows fell out in the 70s, as you may remember).

Full screen is best.

Thanks for sharing with The Surreal Circus.

Thank you, Ann.

very cool. especially love the pics of the older sections

yes....

maybe you can come with in november??? I am serious, but I doubt you can make it.

but the photo opps!!

aand wine and coffee and cake, best outside of France. You will never be the same. Everybody but everybody who ate in Montreal is ruined forever.

I fell in love with the fountains and when you changed the lighting and the colors it was magnificent. So good to visit Montreal again, this time with such visually stunning effects.

ah thoase were some of my fvorites, too.

Stunning. This is your best one yet. Going from gray to color and back was a stroke of genius.

It really gives one a chane to ttest one's perception: the color B & B then the B& W - the B&W looks older, more lik a movie. And other similar photos.

I agree. My little Cobra takes great photos, and does videos. May try that on Picasa after I get that memory card in it.

yes, Picasa has a great collage and also great video slide show facility....

I have a couple of others, but Picasa 3 is my favorite. Almost all the photos you see me post are done on it.
The ones I posted today were enhanced, cropped and lucked.

I get a online magazine for all the hot restaurants in Montreal and their reviews, I can send it to you if you like, when you are in Montreal you can experiment with different restaurants and let me know if they were good or not.

oh yes, thank yo9u very much. I will be there in NOvember. I will email you. French or english doesn't mattter, tho obviously, english is better.

email me because I lost your email address,

let's meet in November if you have a change. Maybe we can try a new restaurant out together. I can get matt to come and you can bring your family if you are up to it.

My sister is busy and I am going alone, but let's try to meet. A very short trip. Short weekend.

Okay that would be nice, even if it is just for a quick coffee, It would be good to connect again.

yes, coffee somewhere. I will have my car. We can find some very interesting place.

that would be great, we can try something new for both of us, or there is a place I used to go call calories on sherbrooke and Greene Ave, the was one of my university haunts.

we will figure it out

did you get the link for urbanspoons the restaurant review for montreal, I didn\'t know until I went to the site that it is an international restaurant guide you would would find boston and other cities around the world as well.

i will have to look for it....i don't quite remember which article of mine it was on.

i have the link for the top 100 in Montreal from Urbanspoons: I have been to some:

HERE

yeah been to some as well

Brilliant photo essay

thank you. I am going to link all three so people can get the idea of the concept and how it flows....

Thanks for the tour. You do know I am jealous?

Just drive and don't stop until you get to the depanneur..... You can do it. You can do it.

Oh by the way, I saw on Netflix a moie about The Naked City - about New Orleanas - and it might be about the same event you are writing bout in your novel about Prohibition and Nola.

I doubt it since I made mine up. However the new HBO feature, Boardwalk Empire has many of the same characters as my story, takes place in the same timeline and tackles some of the same subjects, prohibiton etc.

Somebody once told me there is no such thing as a coincidence. It might be a good time to do my revisions and get it out there.

ye s- hot hot hot tho topic. I will rent it soon and will let you know what the story line is. based on the factual whatever.

This is super lovely hon. I really love it.

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thanks for sharing..

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thank you muchly, Nat.

Brilliant Colours!!! So Caribbean of them :-D)

such such a cosmo city!! many from Haiti, all the former French colonies of course, mid eastern, Indian, all over....

That is really really, Unique!!!!

thank you very much, B!

That was an awesome pictureshow:)
I loved seeing Montreal through your eyes. Now I seriously would like to see it for myself.

Since I love color and shadows that was sheer eye candy, but I also appreciated the older architecture - wonderful, Kathryn. Loved the dept store segment:)

you will love it rose. just love it,. the first one in the series has more like the dept store; it came from the fist in the series - the soul of a woman, also on my spotlight.

Lovely, Kathryn! Montreal glistens in colourful shadowed beauty under your camera eye. Was there music - my computer is ailing and I wasn't sure... if not, I really suggest checking out Jamendo... lots of fabulous music under CC license - free to use, non-commercial use, as long as you credit the musician & link back to their site - a beautiful slideshow/photo essay, my dear! Montreal never looked so good.

Jamendo - wondeful, I will have to check it out. Apparently, not going back to Montreal in November, but I want to try to make actual videos with music . ..

love your icon, will check after i sleep more

Jamendo's main page is too confusing... check out my site there... Lena Selyanina is a fabulous piano soloist & composer, for instance.... http://www.jamendo.com/en/user/brendaclews.

Thanks! Sleep well...

love all three videos- very lovely

:)

Brings back some good old memories as I worked for a shipping company based out of Montreal - always wanted to visit but could not afford the trip :-( Thanks for sharing :-))

Thanks for submitting to
The Surreal Circus.

:)

Liked that elephant saying you have got mail!

yes that was really special.

You seem to have an exquisite taste for every season.