---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote :
From: "TurquoiseBee turquoiseb@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> I love old buildings. Each one has its own vibe, matching its history. I love visiting really old buildings when I'm having one of my sorta-psychic days, because I can "tune in" and catch glimpses into the past. It's not like seeing ghosts -- I don't -- more like being able to feel some residual influence from the people who lived their lives there. If I were to try to come up with a metaphor for what it feels like, it would be from back in the days of film cameras, when you could intentionally or inadvertently create a "double exposure." If the camera didn't move, you've got one "background photo," and then another one superimposed over it, sort of ghostly, because the second image always appears a little overexposed. Sometimes you can see through the second image to the background below. That's what touring old buildings on a good day is like for me. I see the present as the "background photo," and then every so often -- without willing it, without expecting it, without doing anything to create it -- I get this visual flashback, with other characters and other furniture situated in the same room. As with a double exposure, I can sorta see through them. And it only lasts for a few seconds. Even if it's only imagined -- and I fully admit that it could be -- it's a lot of fun. I have to rely totally on my minds eye, and watch/read a lot, always a good history doc on the BBC! It's always interesting to try and see how someone else lived, ancient Rome is the time I'd most like to visit. I found an unexcavated Roman city in Turkey when I was hiking about once, that would have blown you away! It was all overgrown with mangroves but you could see all the classical icons like the theatre with it's curved seats stretching up into the trees and statues of the Emperor. Very cool, there's stuff like this all over the middle east, they don't even know the names for most of it and they don't have the money or manpower to preserve it so it just gets overrun by nature. My old TM academy was amazing, more than 500 years old it was perfect for letting the imagination run wild. I swear it was haunted, there was one corridor that I hated walking through, real shiver down the spine stuff! Must have been all the oak panelling and creaky floors. Henry the 8th stayed there apparently, there was unbroken forest all the way to London in those days and he used to go hunting with the earl of Roydon and no doubt feast on whole boar cooked in the giant stone fireplace in the dining room. We made do with rice and dhal, I don't know who would be more surprised if a superimposed time-slip sort of thing happened and we met each other. Trying to describe this reminded me of a Dutch photographer who must have had (or imagined) the same experience. He combines new photographs with old to create superimposed images that kinda capture what the experience is like. I love those photo's, really eerie. I wonder what it would be like being able to see everything that had happened in one place? Is that a sidhi you'd want? Ghosts of war: Artist superimposes World War II photographs on to modern pictures of the same street scenes http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2219584/Ghosts-war-Artist-superimposes-World-War-II-photographs-modern-pictures-street-scenes.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2219584/Ghosts-war-Artist-superimposes-World-War-II-photographs-modern-pictures-street-scenes.html"; class="ygrps-yiv-32611261link-enhancr-card-urlWrapper ygrps-yiv-32611261link-enhancr-element Ghosts of war: Artist superimposes World War II photogra... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2219584/Ghosts-war-Artist-superimposes-World-War-II-photographs-modern-pictures-street-scenes.html The remarkable pictures show scenes from France today with atmospheric photographs taken in the same place during the war superimposed on top. View on www.dailymail.co.uk http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2219584/Ghosts-war-Artist-superimposes-World-War-II-photographs-modern-pictures-street-scenes.html Preview by Yahoo
