[LargeFormat] Karsh camera? (a tad OT by now)

[David Swinnard]

> see:
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> > http://wave.prohosting.com/~gurton/blog/archives/voiceoffire.html
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> > The Canadian government paid almost 1.8 *million* dollars of our tax


As I recall (correct me if I'm wrong, those of you with longer memories for this sort of thing) that it wasn't a flag, but a painted piece of plywood.

Sometime after plywood affair I had a chance to visit the National Gallery in Ottawa (I'm on the West Coast) with my family and happened into a room containing an "installation". The large room was bare except for a bungee cord stretched across the room on a diagonal.  The little card explained what it was and that the black dye used to colour the cord was special in some way or other.  My family and I had a really good laugh when we saw it. (I never did learn how much it cost us.)  This spring I had another chance to visit the gallery again (which by the way is a fabulous building in and of itself - worth visiting just for the architecture) and though the bungee cord wasn't there anymore, there was one apparently empty space (large) that upon closer inspection contained art that comprised 68 grey bricks (or some such number) arrayed end to end along the bottom of one wall. Not as good a laugh, but I still couldn't help hoping we (the Canadian taxpayers) didn't cough up too much for 

I personally won't be bidding on Karsh's camera (though I did once find one of his prints buried in an atic I spent a summer "cleaning" when I was much younger...).

Dave