Who's up to leafing through old photo albums?
If you want to join me in this activity come and look into the ones I have found. There is a whole bag, full of these old-fashioned memory treasure chests, but I took out just a couple of them. I knew which exact photo I wanted to find and why. The trigger? A song I heard a few days ago that made me start a trip down memory lane. Back to one evening when a photo was taken, of me, pretending to be someone else. I know I don't even resemble that person in the physical aspect, not to mention the brilliance that this man possessed. I can only try to be a little crazy sometimes, but a true genius - Salvador Dalí is unsurpassed.
The photo...
I think I would like to post it in this hidden way, maybe there are sensible people around or children, not to scare them away with my gaze haha. I took a strand of my hair and used it as a moustache. For the rest, please switch on the imagination.
You dont have to open this
The song!
"Eungenio" Salvador Dalí. That's the name of the song I listened to a few days ago, first as a cover and then the original one several times.
Mecano, one the most iconic pop bands in Spain wrote and released this song when the famous artist, painter, writer... in one word - the genius of surrealism, Salvador Dalí was already more than 80 years old. The lyrics "suggest" to him - If you reincarnate as a thing, do it in pencil or brush.
Beauty was compressed in his mind, as also one of the lines in the song says. There is so much truth in this phrase! Artists have all their work in their beautiful minds, the trick is to find a way to reach it and express it, through their means and own style. They need a muse for that, of course, and Dalí had his own one. Gala.
{little intermezzo, but I guess just the Spanish speakers will understand. Do you know what the name "Eungenio" in the title of this song represents? Seems that it is because Dalí e(s) un genio ;D}
My journey through one of these photo albums doesn't finish with just that photo. You see that I was just pretending there, but the real meeting with this artist (through his works) happened on one school excursion. It was a trip that we (from the music high school) made together with the students from the arts high school. The aim was to visit museums and historical places for nine days in Italy, France and Spain. One day was spent in Figueras.
We stepped out of the bus, wrinkled and tired, but happy. Imagine our faces seeing a building that had huge eggs on the roof. It was Dalí Theatre and Museum that we visited. The interior brought a lot of excitement, we found ourselves in a very peculiar world - it was like walking inside Salvador's mind.
That's me, in the photo below (dark hair, in the right bottom corner) observing one of the artworks.
Some other pictures found their way to this post too. Do you see those in the background? You don't? Let's bring them a bit closer...
With a friend, inside The Olympic Stadium Barcelona. The Summer Olympic Games were held there in 1992.
But where are all the people and the athletes?
Oh, it seems we went just a bit late to that event as we found it empty.
Maybe just a few years late, but that is something I leave as a guessing game. The year I visited this place? Maybe a little reward will come if you give the correct answer or just play for fun if you fancy it.
Late or not for the Olympic Games, the thing is that one song went there with me, to Barcelona. I heard the name of this city for the first time through these marvellous voices when I was small. Years passed and then the excursion came and I met Barcelona in real. There I made a wish, that somehow came true (many years later).
My first (maybe there will be more of these) little journey through photographs from old photo albums finishes here. However, we decided to make a writing initiative from this idea. From time to time will we will launch some challenges again, and this is one of them.
The only thing you have to do is find your old-fashioned photo albums. Choose a photo (or more of them) you want to show us, tell the story behind it and how it is connected to a musical experience.
The photo can be crazy, funny, normal or from your childhood, anything that brings you some memories you would like to share with us.
The story behind the photo and the connection with the track/song or composition can be a real story/memory, a dream or fiction, it's up to you. But let's go together on these photo trips through music.
It is an open invitation, there is no deadline and you can join in as many times as you want.
What do you say? Would you like to bring your contribution to the challenge?
I have so many photos like this that aren't digital, I guess it shows my age, haha. I have wanted to do a post such as yours for awhile. Most of my photo albums are at my mother's house. I do have a photo album of my great grandma where she showed cased her baby, my grand father. A lot of the photos are from 1911-1915. Maybe I do something on that in the near future.
I do have a music photo connection during my childhood but that photo is in an album at my mother's house. I like your idea here and I will participate at some point when I can visit my mother next.
Maybe you visited late in 1995?? Anyways thanks for this it served as a reminder and more important gave me some new ideas.
Mingling in, and not trying to give ideas, but why not ask your mother to take a photo (with a smartphone) of said photo and build from there? I think I promised mrs Piano to enter as well, and likely I'll do this with a photo my mom shared with me a few years ago, the same way I proposed to you 😉 Please don't mind me barging in with such unrequested advice 🙇
There are too many and my mother is 80 years old and is not very hip with technology, haha. I know it's just one picture, that in itself may take her time to find among 20+ albums. She took a lot of photos :) She's not in the best of conditions and I certainly don't want to burdon her. That's why and no problem with you chiming in.
Those are some solid reasons. Ah well, we just have to wait until you get to the albums. A challenge with patience build right into it; No mention of any deadline 😉
Looking forward to seeing that entry 🤓
It shows our age, indeed. Sometimes I feel like a dinosaur haha (just kidding 😉)
There was a box with old photographs in the house of my grandma. She died, and the box with the photos is now in my parents' house. Yes, some photos are from that time you mention, my great-grandmother when she was a girl. And even her family, all older brothers she had.
Sounds great!! I am looking forward to your contribution, whenever it comes, but a tag would be good so I don't miss your post 😉
Thank you for your guess, it will also be noted down, with other ones. At the moment I can't reveal if you are right or not 😉
I love old photographs. Seeing old farm equipment, devices, boats, cars, clothing, and anything else you don't see anymore fascinates me. I'll make it a summer goal to share here. Another promise article I hope to keep. Take care :)
Summer is good for setting these goals. Though I have a list of things and posts that I want to share, real life dictates the pace ;)
Greetings to you too :)))
Hiding the most interesting photo of the post? What a nice one! Did he really look like that? I mean with those eyes piercing the ... uhm ... surroundings? Well, not really the surroundings, more what's directly in from of them. The line moustache, yeap, that's him! 😉 The trip to Barça. After trying to read all your blogs and comments just yet, in speed mode, couldn't find anything, so I have to go with a big guess. Trying to calculate it a little as well. I would say somewhere around the millennium. Perhaps a little before we entered the 3rd millenium when taking the Gregorian calendar as the reference. So somewhere between mid-90s and late 90s. Exact dates, years and all. I really don't know, but let's say: 1996. But only when you put a gun to my head, otherwise would've stuck to the mid to late 90s 😎
The first time I was in Barça, I can't remember that well anymore. Must have been a stopover for a flight from Amsterdam to Ibiza. I think at least. Sure, have been visiting Barça more often, but not remembering I was on a proper visit to that magnificent but crazy city before my first visit to Ibiza back in 2001 or 2002. Perhaps my old photographs tell me something. Though I don't have them stuck in a book. More like in carton boxes.
Haha, that was the most interesting photo, the hidden one? Well, true, those from the excursion were just two nice and normal ones. {I did find some other interesting photos from the excursion, but those were not for sharing publicly 😁}
You were probably using some superpowers to read all my posts and comments 😁. So, I will take your guess into account, although there are no guns around your head, no worries. Maybe just a toy, a water gun 🔫 if there is good weather in the NL, to have some refreshment ;) Here, you already know ⛈
I hope Miss Time can give you some minutes and hours for searching activity and find some material to join the challenge 🤓 No deadlines and it's an open invitation, as many entries as one wants, depending on the number of photos and stories one can have :)
What will it take to release those not-for-public photographs? Cmon: Name your price, whatever it is {edje be nice} 😂😂😂
Soooo 😎 these days in my country. Full on. Most of the time. But northern wind, hence early spring-like temperatures. Watergun : when I read that in your comment the first thing I thought of is some water fest they have over in Thailand, which happened about a month ago or so. We also have an event in NL when peeps are not safe from becoming wet, normal wet or coloured wet (coloured water). Don't have any photographs taken by myself, so no entry for this challenge.
Seriously? Just when I wanted to submit those pictures for free, pfffff. Gratis. Now I have to think about what to do with your generous and undefined offer!
In the meantime, here you go:
the whole album
Feel free to leaf through it :D
trying the leaf, but my remote page swap skills are down today.
Don't worry, it's because of the rain here, it messed up with those skills
Old photos are souveniers. I lost mine, my compilation of my elementary and high school day photos. I think I lost the album when Typhoon Haiyan hit us.
Oh, that is sad to hear. But I guess there are many things that go missing when a typhoon hits 😥
True! I just feel bad about the memories the each photo holds.
I shared a lot of pics lately, kinda spammed you all with too much me but I will have a look and see where this challenge leads me I hope the MP does not have to get involved.
There is always room for more pictures and music 😁
Yeah, I saw some of the chapters from your series (letters to your son), but let's see what you can bring as a contribution to this challenge ;) 🎶
So It need to be real pictures I can not use digital ones....because you are gonna sent me on a dangerous tour cleaning out my trastero looking for those albums !LOLZ
Yeah, no digital photos, just those real ones from the dangerous trastero 😁
That is what I thought it will be a story by itself to reach them😂
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No imaginas cuántos recuerdos has traído a mi mente con esa canción de Mecano... Ufff. Me sé casi todas las canciones de Mecano. Jajaja... Puedo cantar alguna en Hive Open Mic semana jyhswhege 😂
Pero qué buen challenge!
Espera... Deja resolver ese guessing game ✨
Editing for the last time...
You were there in 1994. Or at the end of 1993. I'm throwing stones because I don't know how to calculate your high school years. And you don't give clues. It could be at the end of that period that they were given you the tour.
The hidden photo is tremendous. Hahaha...what a witty woman you are.
Geniuses are a bit crazy, aren't they? You have a bit of Dalí in you, I know.
Tienes varias posibilidades 😁 - Hive Open Mic hahaha, o si te ha traído recuerdos esta canción pues un Spread the Vibes, o este nuevo photo-story-music challenge.
The hidden photo lol. I couldn't reveal it just like that, people would run away, scared 😆
Clues, well, that's why this time it is just a guessing game, without clues, just to guess ;) Though some clues arrived in one comment in another post lol.
Noooooo. You are sooooo wrong. Nobody will run away scared. And those who do, well, let them run 😂
Hi @edje, have you guessed? How are you? I know you're a little over water, cause she pointed a water gun at you 😆. I go crazy the whole day thinking that. But...
I have already solved the problem. My answer is this: @mipiano was 18 years old when she went to Barcelona. Can't you see she looks 18? So, doing some math with her current age... she was there in 1999.
Absolutely I've played the guessing game 🙃
Perhaps you are right. But high school and 18? Last school year? So I went for a few years lower. I suppose the bandwidth I provide like mid-90s to late 90s, doesn't count as much as a solid year 😉 I suppose soon-ish we'll know, when she doxxes herself a little bit more 😉
Yeah, soonish I will reveal who is the winner - if there are winners at all ;)
Doxxing myself a bit more, sure. So, the excursion definitely happened in some of the years after this journey to the seashore and meeting some cute 4-legged buddies
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really, after that? nooooo 😂
😂 I hope this is not a subliminal message... 🤣🤣🤣
Creo que no hemos dado con la respuesta correcta.
😯
Qué es doxxing? Es como unboxing? 🧐
So, if anyone is still interested in the year of the Barcelona excursion, it happened in the spring of 1997. No correct guess 🤷♀ but still, I appreciate the effort and engagement so @coolmidwestguy , @edje , @nanixxx , @mikezillo , and @pumarte got a tiny thank you detail making their guess! 😋
The Spring of 97. Ok, I was just 1 perhaps 1,5 seasons of 😎
But years are quite digital. It is either correct or it is not.
Thanks for getting my 2 remaining lazy brain cells activated 😉 and gracias for the H 🙇
Oh you were younger than I thought, What was the year that was closer to the date? 😅🤣
I can't sleep today because I didn't win hahahaha. Oh, grazie mille per il dettaglio 😄 ¿qué será... 😋? 👀
I was close, in the right decade :) Thanks for the H :)
So, I take your first guess and this one also into account, '94 and '99. :)
we will see, we will see
what the answer here would be
haha, what a great poet I am 🤣🤣
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It would be a marathon. Nobody would like to stop, just run and run, as far as possible lol
My old photos are on it's way being shipped back to me. It's been three years since I've had them with me, and a few more years before that since I opened and gone through them. It will be interesting to have them with me again
It will be exciting to go through those albums and photos once they arrive, I am sure! I have always loved to do that, especially those photos of our grandparents and parents, some different times I could dive into 😍
Now that you found your old photo albums, you can join the LOH topic hehe. .
It saddened me thinking about my lost old photographs.. The oldest I kept was from 2011 onwards I guess.. Only a few left taken when I was still a student...
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I am lucky that I still have some of those photos when I was baby haha. But we had less photos back in time. Like one small album for almost the whole childhood.
Oh, what is the LOH topic? Also related to old photo albums? No, don't tell me, I am going to check it :D
It's about youngest memory.. Maybe you have some photos to share there hehe
Thank you, Jane, I also checked in the meantime. My youngest memory, I have a lot of them from when I was small, now I just have to guess which one is the first one hahaha
Mainly mischievousness I remember 😂
Llegué muy tarde para esta excelente idea y desafío. Justamente, había terminados los últimos detalles del post que recién he posteado en Q-inspired-by-music. Amé la sorpresa con la que me he encontrado hoy.
Cómo que tarde? No es tarde, y se puede participar cuando quieres ;)
Find a photo (not digital) that has a story behind it and a connection with music. Enjoy the process. That's all ;)
¿Puedo postear lo que me sugieres en dos días desde ahora? @mipiano
Sí, cuando quieres ;)
You were a sexy girl with a mustache, you weren't that bad hahaha.
I have a lot of albums I'll look for something that reminds me of a tune, thank you. @mipiano
Hahaha, well, I hope the moustache stays just in this version, made by my hair for fun hahaha
Cool, I am looking forward to seeing your entry @soyunasantacruz 😇🎶📸
Photos are a very important part of our story! In fact they are extremely personal, because the emotions and what we felt in those moments immortalized on paper we experienced them... even those who were beside us cannot describe what we felt!
The only "bad" side, if we can say so, is that streak of nostalgia we get from remembering past times, but not from remorse or anything else, just from the desire to relive them!
Looking at the photo, based on the clothing I could venture 1994-1995; even if I didn't get it right, it doesn't matter, I had fun looking for clues in the photograph!
I like this kind of old album challenge, we could coin a hashtag to participate, or tag you so you can stop by and read our stories!
Bye and congratulations on the ideas you come up with!
Yeah, if you make your contribution feel free to tag me or edje, so we can check out your photo-story-music contribution ;)
Nostalgia - it is sometimes good, right? When I visit my parents (it happens just in summer as we live far) we always dedicate at least one evening to watching old photographs. It doesn't matter I know them by heart, I fully enjoy remembering the people from the photos, and the stories around them.
Thank you for your guess, I am just noting them down at the moment ;)
Oh I remember my old photos and searched mine upon reading your post. My mom is a good keeper.😁
Mothers indeed are the best keepers, and also, they always know where to find a missing thing in the house. If they can't find it, then the thing disappeared :D
We have alot of photo books in our house and not just the picture we keep also the original film of the photos that we capture in the past
You keep the original film of the photos? That is cool! I remember they didn't let me touch those films when I was small, not to damage them.
How many stories the photographs tell! So many! Those albums.... most of them stayed in Argentina, but I remember them. You made me travel back in time.
When I got into music... Mecano, I love it and it's one of my favourites, Hijo de la Luna. Do you know it?
What beautiful stories from your pictures.
Fredy was and is a genius! I love it, thank you for this publication, thank you @mipiano ❤️
I hope one day you can bring those photos with you here, to Spain. If not all, at least those that are the most valuable to you. It is always rewarding to leaf through these old photo albums! 😇
Hijo de la luna, claro que la conozco, y también me gusta tocar la parte de piano de allí ;)
I hope so, probably on a later trip.
From Mecano is my favourite song, you have to play it on the piano very beautifully.😀
I totally love the interpretation you did of Dali in that picture , you did capture his essence jjjaja
If I have to guess you take the picture in the stadium in 2003 or something around 🙂
Hahaha, the interpretation of Dalí. Why everyone saw that photo hahaha?
Thank you so much for your guess, noted it down 😉
El genio de mercury, tengo toda la discografía de queen y también muchas de sus canciones en solitario. La verdad que fue un fuera de serie. Felicidades lindos recuerdos.
Sí?
Toda la discografía de Queen? Muy chulo es esto, Denis.
Aunque no soy Freddie, toqué aquí una de las canciones de Queen, si te apetece escucharlo en piano. Si no, pues no abras en enlace :D
Me gusto mucho el post completo en general. Además eres una muy buena Músico. Te felicito.
Gracias 😇🎶
It's nice to keep those photo albums, I like to look at mine from time to time and watch myself as a kid, the clothes I wore, the places I have been, like you say it's a trip down memory lane.
That's it! I do it too, though I have just one small photo album from when I was a kid. We didn't have a lot of photographs in those times... but I do like to watch them, and from other family members, when they were young.
Old photos brings up some memories
They are so beautiful
Have a nice day...
They always bring some memories, and it is the way how it should be ;)
Some one me I don't take photos during my young age because I am always feeling shi
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wow,
I am inspired and cant wait to make my own entry.
And you made it :))
Yes!!!!!
Photos are incredible elements to bring back some good memories.
I can imagine how these ones you've displayed here meant so much. However, it's anice one.
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Que lindo viaje desde las fotos. Me hubiera encantado ver a Freddy Mercury y a Montse cantando esa fenomenal canción. Leí la historia What a nice trip from the photos. I would have loved to see Freddy Mercury and Montse singing that phenomenal song. I read their story and thought it was beautiful. I had to see them on television, I was only 10 years old but I remember it very well. I imagine you arrived at that place about 10 years later. I don't know well, you look youthful, shorter hair and I think you have a happy smile (I can't see well) Thanks
What a nice trip from the photos. I would have loved to see Freddy Mercury and Montse singing that phenomenal song. I read their story and thought it was beautiful. I had to see them on television, I was only 10 years old but I remember it very well. I imagine you arrived at that place about 10 years later. I don't know well, you look youthful, shorter hair and I think you have a happy smile (I can't see well)
I also saw them on the TV. :)
I was there in 1997 and the happy smile - I hope it still is with me :D
Thank you for reading, and if you want to join this initiative, you are welcome 😇
Friend I think that without fear of being wrong that song has been forever engraved in our hearts, interpreted by two giants but also beautiful interpretation. I would like to know Barceona. For me an unattainable dream. I say goodbye for this year I am going on a trip to Pinar del Rio. Happy end of the year and happy 2024.🥰❤️
That song is indeed engraved in our hearts, as you say! 🎶✨ Thank you, and enjoy the trip to Pinar del Rio. ☺️
I am back from Pinar del Rio and it was quite an event, I enjoyed it very much. I just had no connection and could not interact with you to dedicate my best wishes of happiness. Happy 2024 to you and your family, success.🥰