Monthly Collection 1 - Storage
Proudly do we present our first collaborative collection of photographs based on the common theme “Storage”.
- space or a place for storing
- an amount stored
- memory
- the act of storing: state of being stored; especially the safekeeping of goods in a depository (as a warehouse)
- the price charged for keeping goods in a storehouse
- the production by means of electric energy of chemical reactions that when allowed to reverse themselves generate electricity again without serious loss
Ronald Bunnik | Ronald Bunnik’s Photostream | Theme Storage
Wouter Brandsma | wouter28mm.wordpress.com | Theme Storage
Erik Ahrend | Erik Ahrend´s photostream | Theme Storage
Ah-ha! Now your picture, Wouter, makes sense!
Lovely set gents. Must say I’m partial to the bin of Legos by Ronald. The interpretation of the battery is very clever.
forkboy1965
22 Feb 09 at 3:46 am
Great idea and realization! Wouter, I recognized your photos at first sight, of course (after many months following your blog… ;)) but I´m happy to get to know Erik´s and Ronald´s work as well.
Really like the brain storage, the fishes and the broken CD/DVD… a medium not too good for storage, I suppose.
dlc
22 Feb 09 at 3:50 am
I am in the Lego too Mark. My son is a huge fan and loved the photograph.
Thank you Fabian for visiting. We hope that the different interpretations will be the magic of our work. And we hope you can give as new insights too.
Wouter Brandsma
22 Feb 09 at 10:25 am
Ronald, the fishes are fantastic. And I agree with Mark about the battery image, Erik. Very clever indeed.
Wouter Brandsma
22 Feb 09 at 10:27 am
Thanks all for your first visits!
Wouter, I also had a thing in my head about an elderlyhome.. I love your interpretations, especially the brainstorage.
Erik, I really like your style of he pictures, the decreasing quality of the tape and cd, I ust love that. The interpretation of the battery is amazing, to me this pictures have what i call ‘ emotion’ .
Love to explore our next path
ronald bunnik
22 Feb 09 at 11:47 am
Truly fantastic, all of them. It’s hard to say which is my favorite. Well done!!
tam
22 Feb 09 at 6:41 pm
This is an excellent start for your project. Very good idea and I like the execution.
My favorite pictures are the Lego box, the head and ship containers by Wouter and the broken CD by Erik.
Looking forward to your next theme.
Cristian
23 Feb 09 at 2:28 pm
Hi and thanks to all that came to pay a visit!!
It is great to join Ronald and Wouter, two open hearted guys and talented photographers, in this fascinating venture.
Interesting that our first theme has happened to be storage! Storage is precisely one of society´s greatest challenges at the moment,and a phenomenum on which we rely dangerously.
The storage of information and energy (and their impact in our planet) are probably the subjects in which humanity will have to focus the most in the next generation (our kids..)
We have been the generation that witnessed one of the biggest qualitative jumps in the history of technology: the great leap from analogue to digital technology and the huge amount of doors that as a result have opened towards our future.
I remember my father´s first computer, it did´nt even have a screen and it communicated with the world by perforating paper (my brother and I used to play with the TONS of little “lentils” of paper that resulted from those perforations and I remember my mum grumbling about the cleaning of the remains never ending..). I recall my father struggling, endless hours, in dim light, trying to master a new technology that we couldn´t imagine would dominate our lives less than twenty years after.
I grew up with cassettes and Betamax tapes (yup, my father refused to accept the victory of VHS until the writing was all over the wall…). I can´t even understand how we managed to live in an age in which switching to the next song required the primitive and time consuming operation of guesstimating the end of the track and the beginning of the following!! Cassettes, tapes and vinyl records where fragile and deteriorated with ease. Our precious information, stored in that “modern” media was in continuous peril. And yet, with a technology that today would make my kids chuckle, we managed to put a foot in the moon, send robotic explorers to neighbor worlds and venture into the confines of our universe. Talk about humanity´s braveness and endurance…
Along came “digital”. What was that magic new technology, DIGITAL? Our whole vital experience reduced to ones and zeros, marching in front of our eyes, entering our ears, seducing our senses.. For some the transition was hard: I can imagine my grandfather, waving his head in disapproval.
No doubt, digital was here to stay, the multicolored technology that granted access to the next song, or any, just by the push of a shiny button… But we remained trapped in a world of fragility: CD´s and DVD´s scratch and brake easily and have a limited life-span. Our “digital goodies” are still in danger. In houses where the average iTunes library is worth a good amount of Gigabytes and the family holiday snapshots fill hard drives rapidly, storage has become a major issue. I have myself experienced several drive crashes recently and start to wonder if it really is so difficult, in the XXI century, to design and mass-produce high capacity, reliable storing devices..??
The thing gets a bit more complicated if we speak about the storage and production of the energy of which we are endlessly hungry. The smallest energy storing devices,yes, those that we find everywhere unexpectedly when we open a drawer at home, have a very reduced energy capacity and an enormous contaminating potential.
We have realized that the processes through which we produce our energy are killing our planet and hat those resources are coming to an end. We are starting to understand that probably the only “green” way of producing the huge amounts of energy we need to keep the show going is nuclear energy, and that it is not without it´s issues (again the storage, of the radioactive materials and particularly the disposals). Yes, I hear you, alternative energies. The truth is that as of today none is really cost effective. Plus, have you ever wondered what the carbon foortprint of an eolic generator may be??
As I write this (long) lines, I have my dog pleasantly sleeping at my feet. Her stomach is full and she seems happy and calm. She obviously knows nothing about all this issues, she depends on me, she trusts me. That just made me think that we, human beings, may be the only living creatures that understand what is really going on. We KNOW that the Earth is aching. There´s a heavy weight over our shoulders: we are responsible for the future of E-V-E-R-Y single living creature in this planet. Their destinies are in our hands. Their fate is our fate, what a bond!. The decisions that we , as a colective, make in the next 10-20 years will decide wether we survive or not.
Certainly an exciting moment to be an engineer, our kids will see a world of wonders without precedent. But certainly it´s an even better moment to join two fantastic guys in a photographic adventure/blog.
I Wonder where all that came from??? Uf!!! End of rant.
Good light to all!!
Erik.
erikahrend
23 Feb 09 at 10:37 pm