recollections: marseille during the tramway construction, buona vista as a name, and the late day sunlight « nhung chuyen vo thuong vo phat ve con mua mua ha
recollections: marseille during the tramway construction, buona vista as a name, and the late day sunlight « nhung chuyen vo thuong vo phat ve con mua mua ha
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posted by: iliketherain | 3rd sep, 2007
recollections: marseille during the tramway construction, buona vista as a name, and the late day sunlight
i have a ton of things to talk about today.
i think that the late afternoon sunlight is probably the best lighting for a nice photoshoot. the light is warm, the angle is reasonably low that there is less glare, the light has a more substantial feel to it. the late afternoon sun also suggests a variety of things: the end of a school day, the coming of dusk, the winding down of a working day. it reminds one somewhat of the passage of time, even as we become more and more enmeshed in the never-ending rush of modern life. there is something about the warm laziness of the late summer afternoon sunlight that suggests both the timelessness of the daily cycle and the quickly fading excitement of every new day. the scene in haruki murakami’s “norwegian wood” when toru and midori sat on the roof of the house and watched a fire burst out in a nearby building is really a timeless moment, because it captures so well that indifferent attitude and yet it weaves its magic on both persons and brings them together very naturally.
what about buona vista? i was biking in a residential area on my way to dinner with friends when i got a bit lost ( i was lost yesterday too, wandering around in circular, self-intersecting streets just a few blocks from my apartment -yet it seemed so far and alien). i noticed the street name “buona vista” and asked myself: how many buona vista street/place names there are in the cities around the world? probably a lot. it is such a common name. but to me, probably the buona vista that i remember the most is the buona vista train station near where i lived and went to school for four year. that is the buona vista i know very well, and that is the place i remember. i will be very sad if some time in the future the name is taken away from the place. the place has a name, and to me, it must be that particular name “buona vista”. without the name, the place is different. without the place and the memories, the name does not mean anything.
how about marseille? i recall walking in the winding cross streets of marseille last summer. there were lots of construction going on in the main avenue , rue de republique, so we had to take the smaller cross streets and walked along the high terrace overlooking that street. it was dark and the streets were empty. i still can recall one of the street names: rue des phoceens. all that i can remember now was quite an overwhelming sense of loneliness, of fear and dislocation. why? because those streets looked so deserted (because people have to vacate the old apartments building to make way for new development), the walls were covered with piss, mildew and graffiti. there were probably just some shadows of unseen people. marseille on a normal night is probably not like that. marseille in the vieux port area is not like that. but for me, that particular night, among the tiny streets around rue de republique, it was a dark, dark, forbidding and lonely world.
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