publié le 29.02.2012
© Patrick Alonso
There is talk of technologies like Street View, Photosynth, Flickr etc. and how in the near the future, when all parts of the world will have been photographed, we will no longer have to leave the comfort of our own little private spaces to be image makers.
This will, of course, bring the end of iconic images as one photographer puts it.
The era following this near future will also be known as an age of increasing solipsism … and we will be one really shitty government removed from 1984.
The future war photographer;
© like a bunch of people
publié le 20.02.2012
© Patrick Alonso
Sometime before christmas, sitting around, having a beer, I asked a friend if he thought it was too late for us, are we to old to go out vagabonding into wars and conflicts.
He said “Yes.”
That killed me a little.
Reading Wim Wenders’ tribute to James Nachtwey this weekend reminded me of that particular conversation.
publié le 16.02.2012
© Patrick Alonso
© Patrick Alonso
Tours de béton et de verre sur le chemin de la Côte St-Luc … ce quartier à un ne certain je ne sais quoi qui m’attire. Peut-être, s’il y avait un peu plus d’espace et de verdure entre les bâtiments, il serait beau.
publié le 07.02.2012
© Patrick Alonso
© Patrick Alonso
© Patrick Alonso
© Patrick Alonso
I have only one friend who likes baseball and he’s always busy, and five months out of the year you can’t play baseball in Montreal, and the city lost it’s team eight years ago … I miss baseball.
publié le 30.01.2012
© Patrick Alonso
A view from Lasalle boulevard in Verdun, new condos going up in place of what seemed to be a decent little building (see image below) that could of been converted to any number of other uses if there was a demand and a will. I don’t know how these are being built, but if it’s anything like the current trend in Montreal, they are dirt cheap, today home of the nouveau riche or debt addict, tomorrow who knows … in fifteen years most will look like and be crap.
© Patrick Alonso ... call it appropriation.
The above mentioned building condemned to destruction in May 2009. This a Google street view image (I mention it in case you had doubts), I converted it to black & white so in your mind it would feel old … you know, so you would understand it was in the past …
publié le 24.01.2012
© Patrick Alonso
© Patrick Alonso
© Patrick Alonso
La semaine dernière, par un froid mordant, je ne sortais que par nécessité, j’ai eu beaucoup temps pour lire, je vous recommande ceci et cela, ça se contredit un peu, mais c’est correct.
publié le 16.01.2012
Metal is good for the soul … photographs of a musical concert performed by AlcoholicA with Close2Hell as a first act this past Saturday evening.
Close to Hell © Patrick Alonso
© Patrick Alonso
© Patrick Alonso
AlcoholicA © Patrick Alonso
publié le 11.01.2012
© Patrick Alonso
Crossing the street is both boring and an extreme sport.
publié le 08.01.2012
Marché Jean-Talon © Patrick Alonso
Marché Jean-Talon © Patrick Alonso
rue Saint-Dominique © Patrick Alonso
Genre de héro à zéro.
publié le 02.01.2012
© Patrick Alonso
© Patrick Alonso
© Patrick Alonso
Une semaine dans le Bas St-Laurent et plusieurs heures sur la route. L’année débute tranquillement, beaucoup de lecture et quelques idées en tête.
