Little Boxes, San Francisco, CA, 2024.
All the pixels, made of ticky-tacky, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54062971395/
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Captured with the Rodenstock 138mm/6.5 HR Digaron-SW lens (@ f/7.1), Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 50, 1/125 sec), Cambo WRS 1250 camera. Stitched panorama of two images, shifted left and right +/- about 18mm.
This view reminded me of Malvina Reynolds's famous 1962 song (though she was inspired by another San Francisco neighborhood - Daly City). If you look closely, the houses don't quite "all look just the same", but somehow, on the hillside there's more uniformity than there is up close.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Black and white masks the limited range of pastel paints used on many of these houses, particularly in Daly City.
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yes, Matt's image is a very different view than the hackneyed standard Daly City postcard. Which would be better rendered with an easel and pastels than Kodachrome anyway.
Matt's use of digital B&W in the built-environment particularly is approaching a digital Ansel Adams for a new century.
@n1vux @karlauerbach I should point out that this *isn't* the Daly City that Reynolds sang about, but rather University Mound, on the other side of the city, and built up at a different time and without a single developer.
@[email protected] @[email protected] And, of course, Little Boxes isn't actually a song about architecture at all.
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Honestly, all this makes me desperately curious to know the story behind Broadmoor remaining unincorporated despite being an enclave within Daly City.
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Right on!
All art is about people,
only some of it obviously.
Little boxes' social commentary may not be obvious upon first hearing, but the ?third? Verse attempts to apply clue-by-four.