From: rudee@ucsd.edu Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 17:16:29 -0800 Soo - Very impressive photographically and conceptually. I think this shows best photo based website I have seen. Most seem totally consumed by digital imaging pyrotechnics. Since you are poetic word person, as well as a serious photographer, your work really touched me. Lea Rudee Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 18:28:35 -0500 From: Ryan CrumSubject: Thank You My name is Ryan Crum and I am writing to you from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. I am originally from Bloomington, Minnesota. This past year I finally was able to date a friend of mine whom I was in love with for at least five years. She took a trip to Europe and upon returning, broke things off with me. I later found out that she cheated on me in Europe. I have been looking for words to express my feelings and these pictures and words are more than I can say. I am a photographer myself and I love your work. Thank you for what you have done here. You have helped my release some of my ghosts. Sincerly, Ryan Crum From: CFoss59226@aol.com Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 17:58:22 -0400 (EDT) Subject: PICTURES OF YOU I wish I hard a third if your talent for what you create, I am glad to have been able to experience the level of your mastery. keep up the fantastic work..... Date: Sun, 9 Mar 97 07:20:04 UT From: "Kevin Cook" I really enjoyed your site. Especially "pictures of you". I was surfing the web for pictures for story I was telling, and I was looking for shots to match some poetry by Sylvia Plath (ariel) It was getting to the point where all the art was the the same. A nude in the grass. A nude on the beach. Nothing told a story. Then I stumbled on to your site, and I was really moved. You told a great story, using real photographs. Not a staged retouched compostition of 'art'. Thanks for the experience. When I learned that Jennifer left for Mexico, heard the end of the song, and saw the final photo, I was holding back the tears. -Kevin Cook P.S. I particularly enjoyed the music. Who did "Pictures Of You"? seth scott sscott@surfer.scs.unr.edu enjoyable You're photograph compositions are quite good. I assume you are semi-professional. I particularly like your literary quotes accompanying each. Here are two more you might like - We live, as we dream, alone. -joseph Conrad Nihil humani a me alienum puto. -Karl Marx's favorite maxim Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 13:41:06 -0800 (PST) 1-name: david adam edelstein 2-from: davadam@well.com 3-url: http://www.well.com/~davadam 4-origin: Yahoo web site Pictures of You was a powerful piece. I didn't expect to be moved by it ("great, pictures of someone who left this guy, big deal") but by the end you had won me over. Great work. Masques seemed to be less focused, therefore less effective. I'd love to hear about it when you put more work up. aloha --dae Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 18:19:12 -0400 From: Lisa Chun To: rosebud@rohan.sdsu.edu Subject: First Book About Jennifer I really appreciated your effort and need to record the moments in your relationship. I was doing the same with my last relationship (poetry has been the main vehicle for expression for me and recently photography has begun to overtake it). I was taking pictures of him and writing about the relationship always hoping that I would be able to discover something more about him/about me, maybe something I had missed earlier. I kept writing and developing the pictures thinking I would make a book. When the relationship ended I wrote what I thought was the conclusion (the whole story to that point was written from the woman's perspective) but then I had this idea to write what it was like for "him". That was more difficult. I have put the whole thing aside for now... Anyway, I relate to what you have done and I like the photographs. I will go and look at your second book now. Thank you for sharing your thoughts publicly. Lisa From: "David M. Linsenmeier" Subject: Pictures of You Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 17:40:25 -0600 Rosebud, No one can ever understand the relationship between other people. The best I've ever been able to do is to project my own memories onto other people's external events. Your pictures of Jennifer in part I are unusually revealing of the relationship behind them. I have a relationship with a Jennifer as well, and she also left me to study abroad, in France and in Massachusetts (which is not quite as abroad, but still not nearby). I was particularly moved by a few of the smiles you photographed. They are among the most honest smiles I've seen, and they remind me of sharing such smiles. Keep up the good work, and best wishes for part III. Dave Linsenmeier Northwestern University d-linsenmeier@nwu.edu
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 96 04:23:09 0500 From: "smirk!"Organization: Boston University Sure, publish this in your guestbook. :) I'm thoroughly impressed with your art as well as the artfulness of your homepage. It has been a while since I've seen a homepage that has captured my attention as thouroghly and in as many ways as yours has. Happy New year to you too! Sheldon Chang|| "What is to give light must endure burning." smirk@bu.edu|| Boston University|| -Viktor Frankl Boston, MA||
Charles Foster Kane is alive and well on the Internet !
I applaud your efforts.
Craig Duckett
Citizen Kane,
First of all, due to technical difficulties this message is not from
weir@utkvx.utk.edu, but from hickman@utkvx.utk.edu instead. Sorry.
Feel free to publish.
My name is Nicole and today I was lucky enough to find you crawling
across my screen. I am in the process of creating my own homepage so I
am always looking for new ideas. While I was browsing through an art
gallery in Yahoo I came across your homepage. I have been writing for
many years myself and it isn't often that I come across someone who
breathes with the same breath as I do. Your work melted me to my chair.
Thanks for a wonderful afternoon. Maybe we can do it again sometime.
i see also that you have a love for
leah-nani alconcel
Hullo,
I love your idea of posting a new wav file every weel. I have just
one question, where (or maybe when) is "Until the End of the World?" I
have gotten a great version of "Love is Blindness", but I am interested
in other songs. You are probably busy with some other work, the main
reason my web page falls into disarray, so I don't want to bust your
stones. Just to let you know that there is at least one person who is
very interested in this page. Keep it up!
- Tom
.sig on vacation
I applaud your effort. It is nice to see such an honest sharing of
emotion so deep and pure.
My friend, just remember that the human species inherited a gift to love
so deeply, and we never seem to lose this ability. Cherish this gift,
and never fear it, for it perhaps is the one thing that will follow us
until our last breath.
I am also sure that another lady will surely deeply appreciate the gift
you have to offer. Don't lose faith...
> I think he must have been trying to make stars...
yes, i do believe he was.
your writing took my breath away. i cried for a long time.
he and i both tried to make stars but we got lost along the way. somewhere up
around the northern lights.
thank you so very much for sending this. i will put it up tomorrow with the link
to you.
diane
Hi. I just wanted to take a minute to thank you for creating such a
beautiful visual monument. I was in a similar situation. She was only
here on a student visa and when she graduated, she had to return to her
native Hong Kong. I knew that I'd never see her again when she left. I
spent the last few weeks that she was here taking countless photos of
her as I knew that they would be all I'd have left after she was gone
besides a giant void in my chest where my heart used to be. She's gone,
I've been with someone else for a couple of years and I'm sure she has
too. Every so often when Susan's at work I take out my box of pictures
and relive what I felt years ago. It's nice to know that I'm not alone.
Thanks again,
Scott
I really like your "book" Pictures of You, it really shares the
innocent beauty and love you can have for another person.
I help design the web gallery Mythago, and we've included a link
to Pictures of You in the Offsite section of our gallery.
Mythago is at http://www.lavondyss.com/gallery/mythago.html
Regards,
-- Jody Schiesser
Lavondyss Productions
jschiesser@delphi.com
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 07:39:23 -0800
From: craig lee duckett
Seattle, Washington
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 95 10:17:54 0000
From: psch
Organization: Greeley West High School
To: rosebud@rohan.sdsu.edu
I think Citizen Kane's pictures and information was delightful . . .
There's a new wind blowing on Netscape.
Citizen Kane is the creator of that new wind blowing.
He adds a refreshing style of philosophy with humor.
I trully enjoyed viewing his work.
I hope to come across it again very soon.
To those wondering about Citizen Kane's work, it is wonderful.
He is imaginative and quite smart and dandy with his words.
From: weir@UTKVX.UTCC.UTK.EDU
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 1995 19:16:37 +0500
To: rosebud@rohan.sdsu.edu
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 14:55:41 -0800 (PST)
From: Leah-Nani Alconcel
To: Citizen Kane
Subject: Re: pic
your web page is delightful...
i liked the faint glow around
the woman in the picture "tamara"
and your poetry reflects a sincere,
somewhat sad romantic spirit.
80s synthpop...not many people own
so much of the clash or the human
league any more...(i have a soft spot
in my heart for it as well, which
i keep hidden from my industrial
friends). and i noticed chopin's
nocturnes in there somewhere...
very nice.
lalconce@scf.usc.edu
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 95 16:55:45 -0800
From: Tom Spacie
Organization: WPI Student
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: rosebud@rohan.sdsu.edu
Subject: Which week?
tspacie@wpi.edu
http://www.wpi.edu/~tspacie/index.html
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 95 00:36:54 0500
From: Gene Pope
Organization: PopeMusic
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To: rosebud@rohan.sdsu.edu
Subject: Your "book"
X-URL: http://rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/rosebud/homepage/pict18.html
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 1995 17:41:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: Diane Fenster
To: dwhitman@mail.sdsu.edu, fenster@mercury.sfsu.edu
Subject: Re: your site
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 95 01:47:15 0800
From: Scott F Dunham
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To: rosebud@rohan.sdsu.edu
Subject: (no subject)
X-Url: http://rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/rosebud/homepage/pict18.html
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 95 10:33:50 0200
From: BCaudron
Organization: The Reference (Advanced Internet Solutions)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: rosebud@rohan.sdsu.edu
Subject: your "book 1"
Hi there,
Just a short note, to congratulate you with your Site. As chief
of Production of Belgium's premium Internet Publishers, manager
of the Belgium Virtual Photogallery and the son of a great
photographer, I enjoyed my visit to your site. I do not
appreciate all pics in the site (some of them are really
no better than the average holiday pic), others on the other
hand are just wonderful (I think you should devote yourslef to
BW-pics). Your comments to the pics are very nice (they even
charmed me :) -
Ben
bcaudron@reference.be
http://www.reference.be/reference/
From: jlh@en.com
Subject: Only 2 more days of Yankee Peddlar!
To: dwhitman@mail.sdsu.edu (Citizen Kane)
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 23:14:27 -0400 (EDT)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Status: U
Funny because some of the pictures were funny (in a good way!). And
funny in the that it amazing what pictures (even of someone you don't
even know) can provoke such emotions. If you would like to use this
paragraph go right ahead! Or you could put them together if you'd like.
Marc Almond (I love the CD "The Stars We Are"), you are the only other
person that I know who owns this CD. Big Audio Dynamite (who I was
suppose to see in concert at the end of July, but they canceled their
show! Really ticked me off =( Kate Bush, Cowboy Junkies (Blue Moon
Revisited still makes me cry), Depeche Mode, Dire Straits, DiVinyls,
Enigma, Enya, Erasure (excellent in concert), Flock of Seagulls, Peter
Gabriel, The Cure Gene Loves Jezebel, Human League, Indigo Girls, INXS,
Ministry, Pet Shop Boys, Siouxsuis and the Banshees, Cat Stevens, SuperTramp,
10,00 Maniacs, The The, Tears for Fears, U2, and the Violent Femmes. I only
listed the groups but for most of these groups I own almost all of their
CD's. Your welcome for the compliment, you deserved it!
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 09:55:08 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Pictures of You
To: mfitzger@rohan.sdsu.edu
X-VMS-To: INTERNET"mfitzger@rohan.sdsu.edu"