Anodyne
Sunday, November 19, 2006
 
Something about In Front of a Nightclub nagged at me the longer I looked at it, some alteration from the physical site. I know that pictures are inventions and don't neccessarily correspond to reality, but I was interested to see what the change was, and, if possible, to figure out why it had been made. So, downtown late night in the pouring rain, through puddles, police roadblocks, and hooting drunk suburban nightclub crawlers, to conduct some basic "compositional analysis."

The camera faces north by northeast. In reality, the space beyond the furthest left-hand pillar of the nightclub is the blank black wall of the Granville Rock Shop (concert tees; lighters; bongs). The video surveillance camera and the budget pizza awning are actually located to the right (south) of the nightclub, outside the camera's POV. So the picture is a composite of two different views of the location, one "documentary," one "mirror-reversed," and the surveillance camera's lens points to the vertical seam between them.
- posted by cjb @ 12:09 PM


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