I fully admit that I have kind of painted myself into a corner with today's sticker. I picked this photo because I've been doing my best to try and rotate the neighborhoods I post on here. It's been a while since I did an Oakland sticker so I figured this was a fun entry. A big problem with my attempt to keep the neighborhoods on rotation is that when I started taking these photos a couple of years ago, I really hadn't been planning on blogging them. So a good portion of my early photos are from Lawrenceville, Bloomfield, Shadyside, and Oakland since those were the areas I had the greatest tendency to frequent. I have obviously started to explore other neighborhoods, but the method I'm currently using to carry my finished products around is still very full of these early photos. Not that it's a big issue and I do have some wiggle room, there is just a small goal to try to get these older ones out of the list.
The other sort of issue that I'm looking at, at the moment, is the simple fact that it's rather difficult trying to come up with things to say about these disintegrating stickers. I love them and feel like they are an important bit in this project, but honestly how many times can I say that. Sure the first one I focused on worked out and others I've really only mentioned in passing, it's just a question of where can I take these that's interesting. After doing my political sticker experiment, I had thought about doing another month experiment using these kind of stickers. I know I have plenty of these fading stickers in the collection to make it a month, or if I don't they're a lot easier to find, I'm just in that writing conundrum. I can still attempt to research the remnants of the sticker, trying to deduce what it was originally, but there's only so far you can really go when you can't see much. It's still an option floating about in the ether, just needs some flushing out before I decide to attempt it. I know what you're thinking, if you have other options from Oakland and you're not even sure what you want to say about the photo why choose it. Well part of it is again trying to relieve my collection of some it's older images. Another is that I really do enjoy this photo. I like how the sticker is folding back on itself, giving you just a glimpse of the picture. The odd drawing of an older face, the half circle that he looks to be crawling up, the use of a postal label, and it's positioning on the pole all work well to attract your eye. I also really enjoy the blues throughout and how the lines from the trees and the pole play together. Even if I don't have the words to really captivate you, the photo is an interesting combination of elements. All in all I like how I managed to get everything to generally work together to hold your interest for a little bit.
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Maggie Ondrey
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