tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6720858203931120530.post2488637821181781837..comments2023-12-28T16:38:26.304-08:00Comments on ACravan: REMAKE/REMODELACravanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6720858203931120530.post-13632168968566974312013-11-28T03:11:40.269-08:002013-11-28T03:11:40.269-08:00Thanks for following this all the way down. I fou...Thanks for following this all the way down. I found Caroline's comments (made in the kitchen one morning; I wish I could remember what prompted them) profound and comforting. I hadn't realized until recently, when I saw some turbines up close in Massachusetts and then started reading more (including the story about Duke Energy and the bald eagles in Wyoming) how very bad the wind turbine situation was, although things I had read previously about their effect on bats really disturbed me. Then when doing some rudimentary picture research for this, I found an article detailing Bryan Ferry's recent comments about them. (I was already aware of Ralph Percy, the Earl of Northumberland's, anti-turbine stance.) I really love these few Roxy Music photos, especially the bottom one, which I'd never seen before. Caroline's job involved in part overseeing publicity shots and they're really, really challenging to get right. This one was certainly an outtake. Late in her career, Caroline worked with the country artist Emmylou Harris, who is very beautiful in real life and, Caroline says, uncommonly nice. People were always telling Emmylou how beautiful she looked in photos and Emmylou (to whom this was just part of the job) explained to them all the hours she spent with a wax pencil in her hand excising images from contact sheets to winnow things down. Ferry definitely has a pretty reliable sense of his own visual image, whatever other faults and inconsistencies he displays. I used to think of Ferry and Eno as a kind of Andre Breton/Tristan Tzara pairing until I realized that they weren't, that was a superficial thought, and I kind of had their roles (or what I perceived as their roles) reversed. Happy Thanksgiving. I should stay in bed today taking care of a messed up back, but that won't be possible. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6720858203931120530.post-61068739728121830242013-11-28T01:57:22.438-08:002013-11-28T01:57:22.438-08:00And one has to think that having smart wives also ...And one has to think that having smart wives also helped. I mean, before the invention of artificial light, where else were we to turn, in pursuit of the elusive naomi-watts? (Surely not to wind turbines, I say... by the by we've heard that lately one of the blades flew off a rig and took out several Shetlands in one mad swoop! Not to say I tell you so, but there it is.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com