Messages and Postcards, David Stafford

[Carina]

Two great mailings from David. I:

II:

Thank you, David!

Here's a link you maybe would like. http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_PC_0/0_post_card_history_-_messages_o...

:)

[David Stafford]

Yeah, she goes viral and what do I get: a one-way ticket to Palookaville....(Use Brando voice here)

[Carina]

Unfortunately I do not know her, but if I meet her I will pass on your greetings to her! Her ticket out of the small town for sure. I came only 100km outside the same city.

I would love to take a walk in your or Kat's ancient world at any time, but without the bull though :)

[David Stafford]

uh huh....Opa! Opa!

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

hahaha! Great tale, David!...And all those kids just jumpin' all over that poor defenseless bull

[David Stafford]

Katerina,

We took the tour of the temple when we were in Crete in 2003 and I was fascinated by all the architectural details (air conditioning for one) but I had trouble imagining what it looked like. It seems like a no-brainer to connect these dots (gamers with archeologists) and I imagine that it is being done somewhere by now. Love your bull...here's my interpretation of the myth.

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Thanks for blogging this mail art from David the would-be-linguistic-roaming-the-world!

'Liking the "banal" :-)..'liking it all!

Oh, yes: walking through that video game of the Minoan temple on Crete

...be careful of runaway bulls, David :-)

[David Stafford]

Wow! Do you know her? Could you tell her that she has trumped in so many ways my good idea and now all that I'm left with is my fallback idea which is to team video game creators with archeologists to create walk through simulations of the great architectural feats of the ancient world like the Minoan temple on Crete? Those are my two ideas...

[Carina]

Oh, you've also seen the video! Wow, New Mexico. The girl is actually from my hometown (not Petsmo). Funny that you seen it. I hope you have some spare ideas. I know you have :)

[David Stafford]

That reminds me...have you seen this Finnish woman who's burning her way to 15 minutes of stardom? She has a video in which she imitates the way foreigners sound to the Finnish ear. She's lovely and masterful and she made living flesh an idea I've had forever: What does English sound like to people who don't understand English. Of course, she took it a step further by imitating all foreign sounds. Sigh...that was to be one of my tickets out of this one-horse town and now she's not only done it, she's cleared the field of competitors.

[Carina]

oh, I see, me too. Asemia (or asemat) is also a Finnish word, and means stations/positions :)