NvB: Bored in Brno?: Found Object

Found Object

Once again I whiled away a morning in the stuffy waiting room of the Foreign Police. Lovely. I occupied myself by translating the following following poetry someone had thoughtfully tacked to the wall.

Photography and Pictorial Records Suitable for Identity Cards and Passports

Photographs or pictorial records used for identity cards and passports serve to identify the holder of the given document. They must fulfill the requirements of law no. 328/1999 Sb., on identity cards; law no. 329/1999 Sb., on travel documents; conform to the notifications in MV no. 177/2000 Sb., which presents the law on documentation of residents, the law on identity cards, and the law on travel documents; and CSN 66 6416, "Photography and Pictorial Records for Personal Documents."

Suitable materials for portrait backings of personal documents must be tested for long-term picture retainment and conformant with the norms of CSN 66 6416 in VUZORT a.s., accredited testing laboratory no. 1198.

The background must not be interrupted, for example, formed by a part of the landscape, buildings or parts of buildings, and it cannot show other people or parts of other people.

Created by the Ministry of the Interior, Office for Correct Action, Department for the Development of Documents, September 2000

Photos must be 35x45 mm. Maintain 2mm between the top of your head and the edge of the photo, and ensure exactly 13mm between your eyes and your chin. Possible errors will make the picture unacceptable: cut-off top of the head, head too small, background blended with hair, landscape in background, people in background, wearing glasses if you are not blind.

You can access and download your very own souvenir copy of the original poster in pdf format here.

Tags: Czech, poetry

Posted 28 June 2006 at 22:14.

The Blog

What is "Bored in Brno"? a) the best Czech movie of 2003, b) a blog about Brno (the Czech Republic's second largest city) and my adventures in and observations of south and east Moravia. I usually post about music, arts, culture, and stuff in Brno; or, I talk about whatever; or, I may bore you.

There's a Czech saying about how you are a new person for every language you learn. Here's your chance to experience Czech vicariously and to become your new self, now conveniently available in English translation. (Or at least something reasonably close to English.)

If you have questions, suggestions, like what you see, or you're just plain bored, don't hesitate to leave a comment or e-mail me.

The Blogger

A graduate student in music and anthropology writing a dissertation about music in Moravia, the eastern third of the Czech Republic. At some point, the Czech Republic's "second city" (that would be Brno) captured my attention, and I've since been blogging about events, arts, music, and other stuff—basically whatever interests me in and around the cityscape. I'm not living in Brno now, but I keep up with the cultural pulse from afar as best I can.

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Comments:

Unknown said . . .

Okay, so let me get this right. If my face is not the correct size, I can't have an ID photo? What about small children? Do they have their own nose to chin parameter? Do they have a suggested actual length (not the photo length)?

And I thought some of the French restrictions were bad because you can't smile!

4:16 PM, June 29, 2006

morskyjezek said . . .

This is where photoshop comes in handy! I know they use it because I submitted a photo that met the requirements (I don't suppose they actually measure these things, but who knows) and when my visa came, the photo was changed. My head was all squished and the top was cut off! In retrospect, I obviously should have pointed out that they had made my photo ineligible, but it's probably best that I didn't.

5:37 PM, July 01, 2006

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