BORING POSTCARDS

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Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on December 1, 2019 at 5:56am

Dear 23 Skidoo and Artbyjac,

Yep, these issues arise in our souls and elsewhere.

Look at what I said at the start of this Group

"What makes a Postcard Boring? I have given considerable thought as to what makes a Postcard Boring – or not – and would like to share my ideas with you. When confronted with a Boring Postcard, I ask myself a number of questions. First, why did a photographer want to make a Postcard of this subject? Second, why did some printer and some seller think they could make money from this Boring Postcard? Third, why did anyone buy this Boring Postcard? Fourth, what message – visual or verbal – did the sender of the Boring Postcard mean to convey? And fifth, what on earth did the recipient of the Boring Postcard make of the image?"

Comment by JAC MAIL on December 1, 2019 at 4:19am

Skidoo.. Amazing that someone took the time to take the pic and produce this

Comment by JAC MAIL on November 29, 2019 at 8:43pm

love the concept of this, I have a collection of post cards like this.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 29, 2019 at 3:20pm

Bonjour Katherine!

No, the Poniac 'Look!' is not based on one of David Stafford's images 5he might be able to identify the exact model perhaps?) but is a genuine postcards. Details as folllows

(no title)

Photograph copyright 2003 H Armstrong Roberts

Published by Graphique de France, Boston USA / Paris, France.

the Georgia Circle is a big field. It must be used for something sometimes I wonder what? ( Someshat surprisingly, there isn't a IUOMA member from Georgia to ask).

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 29, 2019 at 3:11pm

Thanks John. Where is the militarywar memorial from? The motel seems to be in the US because of the cars parked outside.

'Nostalgia, emptiness and loss' a good description of Boring Postcards.

Comment by John M. Bennett on November 28, 2019 at 5:26pm

These cards produce that intense sense of nostalgia and emptiness - or loss, perhaps, that is characteristic off the best of Boring Postcards

Comment by John M. Bennett on November 28, 2019 at 5:24pm

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 28, 2019 at 3:26pm

David Stafford in New Mexico often sends vintage car images,

...did he send the Pontaic?

p.s.

That "field" in North Georgia College (now the University of North Georgia)

is not a sports field after all...it is the "Georgia Circle" on the main campus,

connecting the various central buildings :-) 

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 28, 2019 at 2:38pm

LOOK!

A guessing game for you.

Here are 4 Boring Postcards, linked by a theme 'LOOK!'.
I acquired them seperately and initially thought that each one of them was Boring. I still think that,  but taken together the 4 form a 'LOOK! Family and I hope to find other members of it some day.

Now 2 questions to y'all.

First question: in each postcard, what are they 'LOOKING' at?

No. 1. (for motor afficiandos, I can tell you that it's a Pontiac)

NO. 2 (is it a 78 rpm or a 33 rpm record?)

No 3. (yes, it's a book, bt which one and why are they looking at it?

NO 4. (about the only interesting thing about this is that the boy on the right is holding a small model of the Eiffel Tower)And then, the second question......

One of you sent me one of these 'LOOK!' postcards a few years ago. Do you remember who sent it (and why)?

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 27, 2019 at 8:10pm

Running tracks are usually sort of oval shape, and (now) 400 meters round -- the major exception is the ancient one in Athens which has 2 long straighst, and 2 short round bits. I ran there once, before being chased off. (There's a similiar one, I think, in Berlin)

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