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Number One
England – right where I am, but not today. I’d like to visit in the period that is known as the Dark Ages – from about 400 A.D. to 800 A.D. It is called the Dark Ages because so little is known about it. Some beautifully crafted artefacts have been found and we know something about life in the villages – but that’s about it.

Sounds just my kind of place.

Number Two
Europe in 1945, just after the war ended. Can you imagine all those displaced people hardly believing the war was over, wondering what their uncertain future would bring, living with the habits picked up from six years of terror.

What a place to experience.

Number Three
The truth is that I could list many more than three. I have never been to Nepal or China, to name but two. I would like to visit Russia again – I had a scant four days there some years ago and I loved it.

But number three is England, today, where I am right now – but with the emotional and philosophical distance to enjoy what I see without the day to day uncertainties of life turning the magical into the mundane.

Dancing in the street

It is an interesting question. Immunity from consequences does not mean that people are unable to suffer, so I would not cause harm to anyone any more than I would in a world with consequences.

On the other hand, as the poet said – 'If I can't dance, it's not my party.' so I would probably dance in the street a bit more.

This image says it all. Image © David Bennett and Quillcards.com

An addendum to an article in Theonlinephotographer pointed to a 2001 article by Mitchell Leslie in Standford Magazine.

This in turn pointed to a July 2010 update that referred to an exhibition of Muybridge’s work that was to be at Tate Britain from September 8 – January 16, 2011.

The Tate Britain site said “Create Your Own Muybridgized Images” and pointed to an iPhone app.

The trail from TheOnlinePhotographer to the iPhone App interested me and I had scribbled it down.

So the first stop-motion set I created with the Muybridgizer is this one of my fingers drumming on the sheet of paper.

The sheet of paper shows the breadcrumb trail of how I came to be there drumming my fingers.

It’s a pity that the sequence cannot be show as a video. Still – it looks good on the iPhone. You just take the sequence (it’s all pre-set) and when it is saved, you just sweep your fingers across the screen and the images flicker past.

This sequence can also be seen in the Flickr Muybridgizer group pool.

I hope to see the exhibition at Tate Britain.

And I hope to take some more images and put them up here.