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Subject: [Leica] A Runner's eye view of the Boston Marathon
From: dorysrus at mindspring.com (Don Dory)
Date: Sun May 9 14:50:12 2004

B.D.,
It's funny how perceptions vary.  I found the marathon essay pedantic
and uninspired: nothing revealing to me in the essay about running,
exhaustion, pushing on.  Obviously, others have a 180.

However, http://web.mit.edu/zrich/www/project/index.htm is an incredible
essay.  Someone like I have never known is revealed with words and in
images that entirely describe the subject in visual terms.  This student
needs to be moved to head of the line.

0.02

Don
dorysrus@mindspring.com

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf
Of B. D. Colen
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 3:41 PM
To: 'Leica Users Group'
Subject: RE: [Leica] A Runner's eye view of the Boston Marathon

Thanks, Simon - It both shocked and delighted me, because she had
already virtually completed a project on a little municipal airport and
the old duffers there who fly restored WWII trainers - she had gone up
with them on a formation flight! And then lo and behold in she walked
with that...

Here, btw, are a couple of the other projects....
My Kyle-to-be
http://web.mit.edu/yamima/www/
One of my writers forced to use a camera
http://web.mit.edu/vatz/www/photo/ogilvie/index.html
The best of the lot in a straight-ahead, pj sense..
http://web.mit.edu/jtwang/www/docphoto
And the one that left the viewers in stunned silence...
http://web.mit.edu/zrich/www/project/index.htm

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
animal
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 3:39 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] A Runner's eye view of the Boston Marathon




> So one of my students, who had already done most of the work on a 
> project on a little airport outside Boston, decided that she was going

> to make her real project a look at the Boston Marathon from a runner's

> point of view - which is to say she ran the entire thing with an 
> Olympus C5050 in hand.
> 
> Like a number of the students, she was new to photography when the 
> semester began, and she was given cropping advice on a number of the 
> images. But that said - I think what she did is pretty terrific... 
> http://web.mit.edu/jumpbean/www/marathon/index.htm
> 
> B. D.
> 
> More of these as they're put up. There are a couple that are pretty 
> amazing, conceptually if not technically...
> 
> 
I thinks it was a terrific idea .
simon j
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