anti-prose. random matter.
children's pictures and a mystery unsolved.
Published on April 12, 2006 By crimson In Photography
My child's photography subjects are a lot different from my own. Whenever I upload from our digital camera, I get pictures like these:


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This is predictable, coming from an eight year old. But every once in awhile she takes photos of things that I do not expect. The next set of photos sparked a debate about the dates on the pictures handdrawn by the artist, and the actual dates of the pictures taken.



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These pictures are displayed on the wall in my sister's hallway. We were about 6 at the time, and they were drawn by a local artist based by photographs provided by my mother. (There's also a picture not shown, of my brother who was about 10 at the time.) The mystery here, is why the artist submitted the wrong date after his name. It shows quite clearly on mine /73, not so clearly on my sister's as a 3, and there is no date provided at all on my brother's picture.



There is no question about how old we were back then. I have actual photos that were dated during processing, and they all read between the dates of /75 - /82. There was no way that we were three in those pictures, and the picture of my brother showed him to be more than 5. (He's 2 years older than us twins.)



Why would an artist deliberately date his own works of art incorrectly?



There is no answer here, but oh! the mystery of it all. And all because of my girl's fondness for different subject material.



(For enquiring minds: I'm the twin on the left, with the curly hair. She's the one with the long, dark hair. And yes, my mother dressed us alike sometimes... but she got the dress version, I got the pantsuit version. And, yes, I am a girl. Hehehe.)

Comments
on Apr 12, 2006
Ah, life's little mysteries. I like 'em. They keep me thinking, as I'm sure they do you. These are nice portraits, though. I take it you are right-handed and your sister is left?

Speaking of twins, my band is auditioning twin girls, one a drummer, the other a bass player. It would be a really good look on stage, especially if they dressed alike, although I'm led to believe it is the one things twins particularly hate.

I hope you and Kole have a wondeful Easter, Nicky.
on Apr 13, 2006
I take it you are right-handed and your sister is left?


hehe. Actually, she's right-handed and I'm-left handed. We were just posed that way...

I'm led to believe it is the one things twins particularly hate


There's another blog about twins here on JU by Cari-Elf... and she talks about just that... it's kinda humiliating, at least in my case. My sister just looked so girly, and I didn't! It's great about the musicians you've met... they must be really close to be auditioning together, and their music played aught to be really tight.
on Apr 18, 2006
Well, we didn't get to rehearse over Easter, unfortunately. I'm now trying to arrange it for this coming weekend. I must say I'm really looking forward to seeing how they play together.

they must be really close to be auditioning together, and their music played aught to be really tight.


When I first met them, they proved to be very excitable, enthusiastic people. One thing was a little disconcerting - they'd finish off each other's sentences. I don't know if this is a 'twin' thing or what, but it was kinda cool yet weird, if you know what I mean.
on Apr 20, 2006
My twin and I do it all the time. What freaks most people out is when, out of the blue, one of us will continue on with a conversation that we might have had about 4 hrs earlier, and the other one can pick up the train of thought justlikethat.