Live To Ride (for Dennis Hopper R.I.P.) by sandra46

Photography • Atmosphere/Mood • posted on May 31, 2010

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For many Europeans of my generation Dennis Hopper has been a myth, and still is. Hence, I dedicate this collage to him. It does NOT represent a real landscape, but an ideal one. As such, it was assembled using a sky from Canada, a road from the Central Plains, and a biker from a non-descript Northeastern urban freeway. The bike, in contrast, was taken in Padova, Italy, just a few metres from my home! There are many HD chapters in this region and a huge meeting every year in Padova from all over Europe. 'For some Europeans I know, an American superhighway is an attraction of the first rank, the more barren the better, because it is thereby more American' (Dean MacCannell, The Tourist 1976). 'At dawn my bus was zooming across the Arizona desert - Indio, Blythe, Salome (where she danced); the great dry stretches leading to Mexican mountains in the south. Then we swung north to the Arizona mountains, Flagstaff, cliff-towns. I had a book with me I stole from a Hollywood stall, Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier, but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing' (Jack Kerouac, On the Road 1957) Thank you for your kind comments.

Comments (52)

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Chipka

12:57AM | Tue, 01 June 2010

This is a marvelous tribute! I love the execution as well as the sentiment! Marvelous work. And yeah, Europeans do have a thing for the American Highway, which is odd, because the American Highway system has its origins in Germany; the Autobahn is the slightly older cousin of the American Open Road, although the American Open Road has its own roots in the Frontier that once comprised what has now been tragically urbanized! But anyway, I'm rambling on, when all I really wanted to say is that this is a marvelous piece of work!

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DEWoodward

10:09AM | Tue, 01 June 2010

Excellant work!!!

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mariogiannecchini

10:57AM | Tue, 01 June 2010

Veramente un grande artista dei tempi mitici ( almeno per noi ) del cinema. Direi che hai fatto un ottimo lavoro per ricordarlo in quello che rimarra' per sempre il suo ruolo straordinario . Quanto a me 1 oretta o due al giorno sul fosso li passo volentieri, circondato dai campi ,un bel giro da Bozzano a Quiesa per la Piaggetta ( d'altra parte me l'ha ordinato il medico di camminare tanto e io , paziente modello !!! , non me lo faccio ripetere.Ciao, buona serata

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