Brinta
Can it be that I’m a non-food person? Well, I’m certainly no food person, and probably that’s why I felt the urge to add special effects to this picture and thus increase its “interestingness”.
Yet I have to pay my respect to the breakfast which has served me well for over fifty years: Brinta wheat cereals. Eaten with some sugar and milk –preferably cold milk, because warm milk will soon turn the substance into some kind of paste without structure.
Everyone in Holland knows it, many eat it when they are young, few abide by it when they get older. I do. That means we have to import it. For years, it was the entrance fee our more mobile guests would have to pay, but fortunately, we now own a car ourselves.
The storage cans date from the fifties. I fairly recently got the one in front from my brother; it’s in much better shape than the other one which has been in continuous use for decades (and actually still is). It shows a happy family (a pipe-smoking father, a New Look mother, a son, a daughter, a dog) having a picnic in the dunes. I’m not sure what else they’ve brought, but they did bring two boxes of Brinta.
You can turn the can around endlessly, and the scene will never stop. To bring that effect about, the section shown on the right is crucial: you can’t say if the woman will go left or right –she’ll get to the Brinta either way. Very cleverly done.
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Taken on Tuesday October 30, 2007
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Posted on Wednesday October 31, 2007
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If something works it’s got to remain that way, no matter what. If it doesn’t I’ll go to great lengths to improve it. Slowly, by trial and error. Everything will be perfect by the time rigor mortis sets in.
Thanks for your remark on the effect I used. I don’t know what I did exactly, and couldn’t reproduce it. All I know: I liked the result better than the original picture.
Sherry ~ Rebujito said:
hmmmm is THIS your idea of a Halloween pic????
LMAO!!!! ;-PPPP
Kees replied to Sherry ~ Rebujito:
Your memory can’t be that good, can it?
For Halloween, my self-portraits will do...
Sherry ~ Rebujito replied to Kees:
because yes even then you made me LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL
until I couldn't breathe ;-DDDDDD
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