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Saturday, August 15, 2020

Our Favorite Muybridge Model


This middle aged model who worked for Eadweard Muybridge in the 1880's has proven to be quite popular with my viewers . . . not to mention being a personal favorite of my own.  So today he gets his second solo series, starting with this image of him pouring out a bucket of water.

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  1. I apologize if this is off-topic, but today we commemorate the 75th anniversary of VJ Day (the allied Victory Over Japan). My own father (a Lt Commander in the Royal Navy) was in Madras, planning the invasion of the Bay of Tokyo - with two million non-conscripted volunteers from the Raj, now an independent republic in the Commonwealth of Nations - from which it is unlikely that he would have returned. I would like to thank those who returned from the Pacific theatre, and remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice. They paved a slow and often painful way for us, here on this site today, to enjoy our freedom.

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    1. Thank you for the reminder. This important historical milestone is observed on different dates in different places. My own father was serving in the U.S. Navy at Okinawa awaiting the invasion of the Japanese home islands. He told us that his unit was briefly ordered to wear gas masks because they feared the radioactive fallout from the atomic blasts had drifted their way. I'm glad that you continue to honor your father's service to the cause of freedom.

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  2. Apparently Muybridge had a thing about people carrying water. I assume it's all the adjustments we have to make when moving...

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    1. That's true. Also, at a time when running water was a luxury, it was a common activity.

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    2. I went to a talk by an academic who had made a study of Muybridge. She was convinced about his "thing" especially women..

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