About this icon...
Dec. 11th, 2004 09:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tealinSince I'm on my LiveJournal honeymoon, I thought I'd explain the odd little image I've chosen as my inaugural icon. It's from a painting by Eugène Galien-Laloue which I'd had as my wallpaper for a while, and this particular figure has always perplexed me.
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To me, this has always looked like a little kid wearing a fireman's hemlet and carrying a TV camera on his shoulder. What would someone like this be doing in a turn-of-the-century Paris street scene? Beats me.
Here's the whole thing: Clicky!
[warning! Great big image file!]
To me, this has always looked like a little kid wearing a fireman's hemlet and carrying a TV camera on his shoulder. What would someone like this be doing in a turn-of-the-century Paris street scene? Beats me.
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Date: 2004-12-12 03:37 pm (UTC)When I lived in Detroit (Royal Oak, actually) one of my regulars had an accordian. He wore suspenders and he smoked a pipe. He never smoked the pipe in the store (or else he would have been irregular and only for about 5 seconds) and he was obsessed with Helen of Aquitaine (sp?). Every morning on my way to work, I'd walk past him musing away on his accordian outside someone's store.
This bizarre anecdote was brought to you by: caffeine (or more appropriately, the lack thereof).
I miss Royal Oak only because I met thee most interesting people... and it was pretty. As pretty as a Detroit surburb could get.
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Date: 2004-12-12 03:38 pm (UTC)...in retrospect...
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Date: 2004-12-12 08:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-12 08:29 pm (UTC)