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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Me Shadow - the project



I made this video using several pictures from my Me Shadow project website and a little help from Animoto.

All inspired by the strange shadows my body casts and a poem called My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894

music: Upstation - Get it on
CC BY-AT-SA  

My Shadow

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;
And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.

The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow--
Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow;
For he sometimes shoots up taller like an india-rubber ball,
And he sometimes goes so little that there's none of him at all.

He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play,
And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.
He stays so close behind me, he's a coward you can see;
I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!

One morning, very early, before the sun was up,
I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup;
But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head,
Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.

2 comments:

  1. Mooi! En een leuk idee ook.
    Ik zie dat jij ook een voorliefde hebt voor de najaarslichtval.

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  2. Thanks,
    Ja dat heb je goed gezien. Dat ís gewoon het mooiste licht, zeker voor schaduwfotografie.

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