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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 8, 2013 - 03:30pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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That's a long damn minute!
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Lembert Dome?
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 8, 2013 - 03:42pm PT
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MOUSE, you should know this; when you pass 64 years of age, you can then see through steel. It's amazing. Ask Donini. The powers are terrific.
This is of course a visual pun on the word "nose'. Sharky has an extra pointy nose this morning and the presumption is J-Do would last about a minute on this "live" mountain somewhat reminiscent of our very own Cerro Torre. And a reverie too on J-Do's NIAD coming up with the indefatigable G-Lo. I think this whole thing is awfully fun. I am already threatening to add J-Do to my "El Rushmore" image too. Maybe lower down, though, say on Mammoth Terraces, rather than on the heights with Lincoln and G-Wash 'n stuff.
Brownie, absolutely you goddit. I like the Robert the Bruce avatar, btw.
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Fletcher
Trad climber
The great state of advaita
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Holy sinus Batman!
Careful: watch out for post nasal drips. They abound, but do not abide.
Eric
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Well no wonder you know about D's nose. You're quite observant & knowledgeable.
R the B was from Scotland just like my father's father.
I was named after him (Bruce).
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
bouldering
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Nose in an hour is completely feasible.
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Fletcher
Trad climber
The great state of advaita
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In light of half of art being how the viewer chooses to interact with it, I'm sticking with this being Donini's Nose (and not El Cap's)!
Eric
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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^ Dundee?
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matty
Trad climber
under the sea
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taint no croc, its a shark!
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Peter, is that with hair or without????
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Cerro Nariz?
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Nobody has it nailed down, so just on an off chance and a weird premonition, Aretha Franklin?
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Okay, with a name like Donini i'll admit i have a Roman nose.......but jeeez Peter!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Rising...Great White style for the tidbit du jour!
The topo in ten seconds. A little more for Roper. I carry his version from the first time I read it.
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MisterE
Social climber
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Damn you, DoniniSharktopus thing!
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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So I'm standing in the parking lot below Angel's Landing and this climber tells me that he thinks he sees some anthropomorphic image in the varnish on the northeast face, and he asks me, "that's the prodigal son, isn't it?"
I explained to him that I named the route Prodigal Sun because it quickly goes into the shade.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 9, 2013 - 01:42pm PT
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Good one, Ron.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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What darkish lightweight visions lurk in the minds of Haan So Lowe?
Only the Needle knows.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Nice one, Pedro.
If I remember correctly, you said you owe me another, to complete the Trilogy, or something.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 9, 2013 - 02:22pm PT
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It's true, Jefe. And the gathering of the sheaves began some while ago. The process is sort of alchemic, you know, and takes ingredients. But right now and for everyone's benefit, let's go look at one of the images being brought to bear:
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 9, 2013 - 03:04pm PT
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Basically, Ron, this Photoshop image was developed from a Great White Shark image then turned vertically and a not terribly unusual image from Patagonia, in layers and with stretching of the shark obviously to turn him into a Cerro Torre-like tower. Mountains such as Cerro Torre are so extreme in appearance and thus so deadly-seeming that sharkifying a mountain, or mountainizing a shark, is interesting and hopefully has curious and disturbing resonance or simile to it. I did not have a crocodile in there at any point, but surely one could develop in the process of all the photoshopping, certainly without intention.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 9, 2013 - 03:15pm PT
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That the image is not simply objective but instead ambivalent or ambiguous is crucial.
You're a taxidermist and your task is to be as true as possible to the real, living, breathing exciting animals you mount, but other artists have different tasks and in some cases getting the final work to contain complex human comment on a bunch of levels at once instead is the task of their successful work.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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So we can distill this into a simple metaphysical question; is it a prodigal croc or is life just a crock?
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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I wish people who repeated my routes could take that advice.
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