BORING POSTCARDS

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Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 27, 2019 at 8:08pm

Nice ones, Jean! Did the Worldwide Salmon Community vote for  Westport, or did westport Council decided on the title itself?

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 27, 2019 at 2:51pm

might be a track and field...for running events?

as baseball has a DIAMOND :-)

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 27, 2019 at 1:48pm

Thanks Katerina!

Yes that empty field is indeed Boring.

It's a strange shape, and I wonder if Is it's a baseball pitch?

Byee, Val

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 27, 2019 at 12:02pm

empty field...boring?

State of Georgia, not Country of Georgia :-)

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 26, 2019 at 3:19pm

Thanks Jean!

Yes the High School must make the list.

I have a similiar postcard above my desk of my Grammar (ie High) School in England. I hadn't thought of the Postcard as being Boring, but now you have alerted me to this, and shown me the one in Portsmouth, it most certainly is.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 26, 2019 at 3:17pm

Thanks again, Res.

The compositin, of the Temple card is quite something.

You can just about make it out at the back of the landscape.

And then, is the landscape Boring, or the Temple, or both?

When I was at school, we used to have annual trips to a section of Hadrian's Wall in England, and would walk along the Wall in the cold and the wet and the drizzle, and sneak off somewhere to have a cigarette. I have never forgiven Hadrian for building his Wall!

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 26, 2019 at 3:13pm

Great cards, Res! Thanks.

I haven't cole across a 'Generic' Postcard before -- interesting. Is it Boring? or Anti-Boring?  Or....?

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 26, 2019 at 3:06pm

Bonjour Luis Filipe, and welcome!

"There are no boring postcards!", you write.

I agree. Like any sort of art it's all in the eye of the beholder. So, I might think a particular postcard is Boring, but you might not.

And vice versa.

But if you beleive that there are no such things as Boring Postcards, why are you in the Boring Postcards Group?

But, please don't leave us!

Let me give you a quote from Tom Philips who has produced two excellent books on Postcards, 'We are the People", and "The Postcard Century".

In the latter (and, I suspect, as a commentary on Martin Parr's works) he writes, "...what are often called boring postcards are in fact quite the opposite in their visionary distillation of life's absolutes".

Voilà!

Comment by Mick Boyle on November 26, 2019 at 5:59am

Here is an actual historical "Wish you were here" from 1957

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on November 26, 2019 at 5:55am

The dining room not on a postcard? My postcards are 'real' ones, not on-line ones. Val

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