BORING POSTCARDS

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Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 18, 2021 at 7:41pm

PLEASE CHOOSE A TITLE FOR THIS BORING POSTCARD FROM MONTREUX, SWITZERLAND, FROM THE LIST BELOW, OR PROVIDE AN ALTERNATIVE ONE  (It says'General View' on the back)

1. Extract from a 1970's garden furniture catalogue

2. Everyone's gone to the Montreux Jazz Festival

3. Everyone's gone to the Moon, Jonathon

4. "I told you we didn't need a reservation"

5. "And I told YOU that this was a terrible restaurant, and that's why thete's no one here."

6.  etc

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 17, 2021 at 7:48pm

PREHISTORIC STONES FROM 4500BC: BUT WHO IS THE GRAFFITI ARTIST?

Here are two Boring postcards of lots of old stones from ancient sites in Brittany in the north west of France. 

1. 'The Alignment of Stones at Kermario'

There are, says the local Tourist Office, 1029 old stones here -- count them if you have nothing better to do. Or play 'Spot the Old French Cars'. (I spotted 3rd from the left a Renault 4; fourth from the left a VW Beetle; and 4th from the right a Citroen 2CV).

Now here, maybe, it gets interesting:

2. The Alignent of Stones at Ménec'

Lots more old stones from the same era and the same part of France. Is that modern graffiti on the stone front left, or was it part of the original and very ancient carving?

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 16, 2021 at 2:52pm

MOVE A BIT TO THE RIGHT, CELY, AND SEE IF YOU CAN LOSE THAT BOAT

Two remarkably similiar Boring French Postcards of a sunrise or sunset taken by 'Cely'.

Start with this one

"It's not bad, Cely, but see if you can loose the boat as that will make the Postcard more Boring. Try moving a bit to the right."

And he did:

"Getting better, but too much of the old wagon, and not enough of the pier. Try moving a bit more to the right, Cely."

And he did. And there should be a third Boring Postcard.

But Cely moved too far to the right and fell off the cliff.

The lessons to be learned from this are i) there are dangers in being a Boring Postcard photographer in Franve; and ii) there are dangers in moving too far to the right in France

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 15, 2021 at 3:02pm

WAITING FOR GODOT....SORRY, THAT SHOULD BE WAITING FOR CEZANNE

Here is a Boring Postcard of a garden chair alongside an, ancient stone, er, table that Cécile sent to Germaine in 1980

What was Cécile doing there? you might ask. She was waiting for Cézanne, as the next Postcard shows.

The little stone pillar at the bottom left of the Postcard marks the exact spot (so the back of the Postcard tells us) where Cézanne set down his easel to paint 'Le Paysage de Sainte-Victoire' in 1885.

I don't have a Postcard of his painting, nor the original work which is in a museum in Philadelphia (of course), but here is what his painting looks like.

(Later versions of Cézanne's work include Cécile's chair)

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 14, 2021 at 3:55pm

THREE OLD PARISIAN POSTCARDS (not in very good condition, alas) FROM MIKEL UNTZILLA, for which many thanks,

1. Cabaret du Lapin Blanc (1864)

Can you see the White Rabbit, Alice? I can't.

2.View from l'Arc de Triomphe

Note the two men with boaters. The French Tennis Open finished yesterday, and 99% of the male spectators seemed to wear boaters. (My French chapeau de choice is a pith helmet)

3. The Charmer of Birds

Another boater. And a Charmer in a top hat.

You may wonder why os he charming birds? As he's French, he's probably going to eat them.

This postcard seems to pre-date Covid by about 150 years -- the Charmer is either heavily bearded, or wearing a mask.

Comment by Bradford on June 5, 2021 at 8:25pm

Well, I don't know. If you're from Texas, love travel, motels, hotels, and the like this nostalgic image from the 40s is interesting. If the back is inscribed and posted, all the more so. There is at least one boring image from the famous Alamo Plaza Courts series I'll try to dig up to show you what boring is all about.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on June 5, 2021 at 5:51pm

FROM DIANA HALE -- AMAZO PLAZA COURTS

Thanks Diana -- a great Boring Postcard.

Sent by Su in, I think, 1940 or 1960, from Little Rock, Ark, which she describes as a 'really nice area'. She doesn't, alas, say anything about the Beatyrest Mattress on her bed, but maybe she slept on the floor or in the bath.

Comment by Richard Canard on May 26, 2021 at 6:36pm

Oh..... or do you refer to the "Post" / "Card"?

Comment by Richard Canard on May 26, 2021 at 6:26pm

Yes,  I can relay to you another of the same "lock-down Covid Reimagination" (if  that is to which you refer).  Unfortunately, I am not  aware of Ms. Hale's total repertoire--there may very well be more . Ms. Diana Hale is very much a member here at the I.U.O.M.A.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on May 26, 2021 at 5:39pm

Thanks Richard, and I underscore this reply. Have you got any more of Diana's Postcard 'Reimaginations?

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