July 10, 2006

• Cool! Hi Stanzi! (pls to make dancing anim gif kthxbye)
• wow very cool! especially since I am teaching music history to junior high kids all this week.
• I accept monetary donations.
• Interesting contrast between those in the front row and those in the back. Surprised to see people apparently relaxed and interacting in a photograph of this period.
• A daguerreotype. Had a quick exposure compared to other techniques, but it must have been a very quick exposure to capture this apparently natural pose, bees, eh? Later techniques took longer, as you no doubt know. Sometimes people had to sit with a clamp at the back of the neck to keep their heads still so it wouldn't be a blur. Perhaps these folks simply were successful in holding the pose for 60 seconds. I feel daguerreotypes are more attractive than other forms of early photo.
• Very nice, Chy. How 'bout a few more linkies, eh, mate? Oh, she doesn't look a bit like whatzer name in the movieAmadeus. Ach! The lazy one link bugger.
• Ooh, she's pretty! All I can think of is "Ludwig, where's the jam spoon?" and Colin Mozart the ratcatcher...
• I don't remember reading any guidelines on MoFi concerning one-link posts. That seems to be a pedantic obsession of self-absorbed Metafilter denizens, does it not? Quality over quantity. If it's weak, then back it up with a few other links, but if it's something that can stand on its own, post it. This, I thought, was the latter.
• Quality over quantity. If it's weak, then back it up with a few other links, but if it's something that can stand on its own, post it. This, I thought, was the latter. Word.
• What TUM said. Which I will now begin abbreviating as WTS. *snif*
• No, there are no limits on links - ye can have one or twenty, doesn't matter. Given the nature of MoFi, where any thread can be commented on or have links added, year after year if folk want to, makes this idea rather ridiculous. Which I suspect was BlueHorse's aim.
• Which I will now begin abbreviating as WTS Embedded abbreviations! owie...head hurts
• Looks like Wagner leaning forward from the back row. "Psssst... tell Frau Mozart zat her husband vas ein dummkopf compared to me!! And ask her if she vants to see my 'Flying Dutchman'!"
• Werd, Bees! I waz just teezing, Chy and tryin' to add a little somethin' else to the mix *GramMa goes off to sit in the corner
• You know I don't recognise sarcasm. Remember: I'm stupid.
• And fabulous! *snap!* *runs to mailbox to check if the mail order SuperChy X-Ray Fez is here yet*
• Do you have any pictures of her in crotchless panties?
• No.
• How 'bout a few more linkies, eh, mate? She may have been teasing, but she does a good job of summing up exactly what's wrong with this whole "more links are better" push: So often many of these multiple links are pretty much useless. A wikipedia entry? On Mozart? In case we forgot who he was? I don't need to read that, I can appreciate the last known photo of Mrs.Mozart without having to hunt it out from a bunch of links that don't add anything at all. Sure, multiple links make sense if you're introducing a topic many people don't know much about, but there's definitely a time and a place, and too often those multiple links are just noise that obscures the article of interest for no reason other than people are afraid someone's going to snipe at them if they don't add 'em in.
• It's the only known photo of Mozart's widow. There are no others. None, nada, nil.
• Yep. The Yoko of the Mozart family.
• Uh, what?
• I like the one-link posts. Especially this one!
• It's the only known photo of Mozart's widow. Yeah, thats what I meant.
• The Yoko of the Mozart family.!!!! Damn you, TUM! I just choked on my potato salad. This one's for you, Chy ;)
• One link, when it's the right link, is enough. When it's the wrong link, an uninformative or unfunny one, then it will stand out like a sore thumb and probably needs all the help it can. Frankly, I get so tired wading through posts with lots of links I often leave 'em last to read, which may be three or four days later. /short attention spa
• can = can get
• Thanks for this, Chy. It's nice to put a face on real people if you know a little something about them. She was almost 80, right? She looks great for her age. Hair still dark and everything. (Maybe she was using something for it?) You can kind of picture what she must have looked like when she was younger. (As to the rest of the non-troversy, sometimes one-link posts exude such style and grace that one cannot help but stand back and admire blah blah blah etc.)
• Time to change key to d minor.
• She was almost 80, right? She looks great for her age. Hair still dark and everything. I was thinking that too, verbminx. Wig? She looks...sad. But much younger than 80.
• Maybe it's not her after all...
• I want to visit the short attention spa.
• BOO! BOO, Plegmund!!!
• Ah, well. Even if it is just a picture of a lovely-looking older woman who bears a strikingly strong resemblance to portraits of Constanze, it's still a really cool old picture. Maybe it's a niece or something?
• All those old bags looked the same anyway.
• Y'know, Gyan posted it first. I find D minor the saddest of all keys, really. It just makes people weep, instantly. Y'know, I'm really influenced by Mozart and Bach and this is sort of in-between, it's like a "Mach" piece. This piece is called "Lick My Love Pump"
• *waves to Gyan* ...like a Mach piece Beauxart?
• /collapse
• *snicker* There is one problem with the thing Gyan and Plegmund posted. That whole "This is totally an amateur snapshot from the 1870s!" bit. What, were they all costumed to look like it was earlier? I'd have to pull out some books to double-check the exact dates, but the clothes and hairstyles on display here are NOT 1870s - they're earlier. So even if it's not Constanze (which might explain why the woman looks 20 years younger), I think it's still much earlier than 1870s.
• (PS - the snicker goes to "Beauxart," not to the authenticity doubts! :)
• Apologies to Gyan. You're probably right, verbminx, but mightn't people in Altötting, especially old people, be dressed a bit old-fashioned (or in a pretty fashion-neutral way)? I dread to think how some future fashion expert would date me based on my clothes.
• /thinks: would anyone date me based on my clothes?
• Possibly not. However, on the testimony of some wet, soapy mares at play, I would. ;]
• I've got a friend from Sweden who once told me that over in Europe they could always tell Americans by how they are dressed. She said that the idosyncratic monochromatic wardrobe I dress in was an exception to that rule. That was when I knew that I had found the style for me.