mixedmedia

Thought this might be an interesting diversion for some folks...

Find an image of someone and post it here. It can be someone famous, but it doesn't have to be - just someone whose image you feel you relate to outside of time or place.

Think of your interests, your passions, your syle, your attitude and try to imagine yourself in another era, another geographical location, another life altogether. Get creative! Google image searches, flickr, photobucket, even Youtube...any resource will do.

There are no rules except for one: don't use someone that we all know is alive now or is likely to be alive now. Reach a little further back, please.

And, remember, if you choose a picture of a child, you can only link to it.

This is me:

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Willravel

abaya

Great thread idea! I'm torn between two (one died in 1937, the other in 1968):

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snowy

It depends on my mood and the day of the week, and where my imagination wants to take me. I've always loved history and I've always enjoyed imagining myself to be part of it.

I could be:


Or perhaps:


Or maybe:


Sometimes this:

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Vigilante

Depends on the day for me as well.

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World's King

and...

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BadNick

I might decided if I could just make up my mind...not sure:

Lucifer

This is an excellent idea, MM! Since we are looking at another place and time, I thought I'd go with a parallel universe! I found this image in a British Photoshop magazine and really identified with it. It's from a world where the Samurai and the Knights Templar evolved into one organization: A Samurai-Templar!

Samurai.jpg

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1123, 6536, 5321

sadistikdreams

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The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials."
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hearts, by d.a.

Manic_Skafe

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jewels

or

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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
Mark Twain

Charlatan

Herny Miller


Walt Whitman


John Huston

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roachboy

méliès


or maybe harry partch


or maybe wittgenstein


if not, then

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

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mixedmedia

Great choices, everyone!

BadNick, I'm pretty sure Dylan is still in possession of his body and won't let you have it.

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

abaya

I find it interesting that most people stuck with their own gender...

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Jetée

or species.

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Poppinjay

Hmmm, well that made me re-think my choice and I think it certainly fits. I identify with, but am not nearly as talented as:




crossed with

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Baraka_Guru

I would like to think I would have been one of these Williams:






Failing that, I would likely have been this Thomas:



I like the way he dressed.

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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abaya

Oh, are we supposed to say who our people are?... or leave that to be guessed?

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mixedmedia

okay then...I can go there.



and if I were to really flatter myself

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PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

Poppinjay

I put names just because I couldn't identify some of the other pics.

I took them off so later posters can guess.

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aberkok

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Manic_Skafe

John Muir. Definitely.

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highthief

Beat me to it!

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PonyPotato

(and no, I'm not referring to the Jockey)

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Jinn

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abaya

Joan of Arc... nice one, merlen. She came to mind for me as well...

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And think not you can direct the course of Love;
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--Khalil Gibran

Poppinjay

His great grandson is moving to the new Virginia State Fairgrounds stable. Rainaway was found with 20 other horses in an abusive and neglected stable in Tennessee. The rescuing group says he looks just like his famous ancestor.

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I think the Apocalypse is happening all around us. We go on eating desserts and watching TV. I know I do. I wish we were more capable of sustained passion and sustained resistance. We should be screaming and what we do is gossip. -Lydia Millet

PonyPotato

jewels actually already posted a picture of Joan of Arc.. I just chose one with a horse in it.

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— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

noodle

oh to have had this brain. i think it would have been fascinating.


or

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snowy

I didn't choose specific people; rather, I chose pictures (mostly pieces of art) representative of a time period I have wanted to live in at one time.

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Willravel

In my case, the sad reality is that sexism in days gone by prevented many women from being accomplished composers/performers. Franz Liszt (the figure in the picture I chose) was nearly as good as Chopin at composition for piano, but he also had a playfulness and joy that I really relate to. His works covered the range of emotion better than any other composer, imho. Also, he gave up learning Hungarian, just like me!

mixedmedia

This was more of the original idea...to find pictures of anonymous people who you might picture yourself as in another time...

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

roachboy

i started out wanting to find an image of a guy with a beard looking at a guy with a beard, so melies, but then i got distracted.
somehow elmer fudd was the result.

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite

Glory's Sun

I'd be all powerful and shit.

Willravel

thespian86

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Craven Morehead

would be fun

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Zeraph

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