what's hanging over your desk?

[jd callow]

A photo of my wife.

 

[removed account4]

its a moulding/shelf
with a handful of stuff on it
a bell jar filled with polapan slides,
a fossil,
2 dead "C" batteries
container filled with pennies
paint brush, lens cells
harmonica
soviet era alarm clock (doens't keep time well)
family picutres
buzz lightyear's calf+foot
reflective light adapter for my MIA light meter
kneaded rubber eraser
and 2 acorns,
"stuff"
and dust.

 

[Peter Black]

We have a 'clean desk' policy, stuff can be(and has been)removed and disposed. We don't have anything over our desks as we work in an 'open' office.

I'm in the same situation as Mark, or perhaps even worse! We just moved to a new office a few months back and are hot-desking, whereby you have a small cupboard with all your worldly goods and then you have to find a desk to work at. Because about half of us work outside of the office for at least part of the week,there are about 15% fewer desks than staff even though there is enough room for us all to have our own desk.

Desks must be completely clear each night and eating at a desk is (almost) a hanging offence. :confused: And don't even think of putting up a calendar anywhere, or even a Christmas card (since it's that time of year)

 

[Paul Jenkin]

I've just moved jobs and I have a seat next to a window with just about enough room to place a small(ish) calendar. As a big fan of Ansel Adams, I'm hoping my wife has bought me the 2009 edition. If not, I'll have to buy my own. That's what going to hang next to my desk at work.

At home, I have the usual assortment of boxes of pens and CD / DVD cases, an A4 ring binder into which I'm placing my negs as the 'analog' collection grows but, sadly, I'm lacking a couple of inspirational prints. Rather than go for yet more of Ansel Adams' works, does anyone have any suggestions? Something relaxing in 'mono' with trees or waterfalls would be favourite. As I don't have a darkroom or even a digital printer, it would need to be something available commercially in the UK up to about 16x20 inches. Any suggestions....(sensible ones, please)?

 

[23mjm]

A dark cloud!

 

[Uncle Bill]

Have this above my computer at home

Shot this about three years ago with my Leica M3 and I think Plus X or FP4, can't remember the film but Elevator made the fibre print before I started printing myself.

 

[NormanV]

I am amazed at the answers to this post. I speak English but did not understand what it was about. What am I missing?

 

[dpurdy]

Norman, for most people the desk is where they spend their working day. The question of what is hanging over it is to show what personal item keeps a person attached to himself or his life aesthetic. A lot of times what hangs over a desk is somewhat random, though still from synchronicity does have some relevance. The difference in perspective comes from some relating to a desk that is in a creative space and some from a desk that is in a necessitated work environment.

 

[Shmoo]

A dark cloud!

Took the words right outta' my mouth!

 

[ricksplace]

Books, Books, and more books (I'm a College Prof). Also some of my prints (colour and B&W, 8X10 to 16X20). Letters and cards from students, including a collage of students at a grad party. The students made the collage, signed it and gave it to me in the last class of the semester. I also have some wood carvings from northern Ontario (Webeque, Landsdowne House, Summer Beaver). My semester schedule is also on the wall next to my desk so I know where the hell I'm going every day.

 

[markbb]

I'm in the same situation as Mark, or perhaps even worse! We just moved to a new office a few months back and are hot-desking

We've been told we are moving, to a 'new and exciting development' (ie souless concrete slab) and hot desking will be implemented, with not enough desks for the number of people. It's going to be like a huge game of musical chairs, presumably those who arrive too late will hover behind their seated colleagues ready to pounce if one of them goes to the bog.

 

[ROL]

Only the best

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

I do most of my work at home. The study is also the dry side of the darkroom. The wet side is in an adjacent bathroom. So there's a Thomas Duplex safelight hanging over my desk, among other things.

Since the desk and the darkroom are in such close proximity, it's fairly easy to shoot a quick 4x5", attached, and process it instantly.

 

[Rob Skeoch]

I have an AA print over my desk.... and one by Jorge to the side.
-Rob

 

[Bandicoot]

On and around the desk, and on every surface in my study, is all sorts of 'stuff', but actually over the desk there's just a calendar of Japanese folding screens my dad gave me last year, and a small framed reproduction of a Rembrandt drawing of a wild boar in red chalk.

However, I'm not writing this at my desk, but at my dad's as I'm visiting for Christmas. Over his desk hang three framed pictures: an abstract etching, a reproduction of an illuminated manuscript and, rather gratifyingly, a cyanotype diptych of mine that I gave him for Christmas.

(Of course, he can always take it down after I've gone back home!)


Peter

 

[ken472]

Think and see, then work.Henri Cartier-Bresson

 

[kevs]

My desk is at home. If I described all the junk around it I'd never finish!

To the left, my dressing table with assorted junk - Cd's, cassettes, TV and VCR remote controls, a few neg strips in bags and an empty miniature Bombay Sapphire bottle acquired in Noo Yawk. To my right a cassette player that I've been sampling from into my PC; and slightly behind me is a large framed print of a Cornish beach from Stoodent Daze. Above my head - the ceiling, loft (more junk and cobwebs!), roof and sky.

 

[Ed Sukach]

A large (35" stem-stern), accurate model of the "Flying Cloud".

 

[tac]

An 8x10ish B/W Ilford Gallerie, grade 3, un-toned fiber print of bare trees in a flooded creek ( I think they call it a river, but seems kinda small for that appellation), which I shot and printed in the early 80's. It's significance is that while I was driving out to photograph it (I had spotted it the day before), I decided, finally, to go pro and open a studio, which I ran for 12 years, until I decided to go to Grad school

 

[Shangheye]

Above my desk at home is an empty thought bubble...waiting for inspiration to fill it ;-))