film fights 

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call out the Warriors’ favorite clichés .. food food food .. caviar coronations

you don’t go to the beauty parlor for information — not even game scores. it’s about wow and while away the hours.

a two axis cockfight.. not this but that.. whatever you say, or hold, i counter, or knock . it’s all about aesthetics; it’s all about science .. it’s all ; about the science ;no it’s all about that science .. it’s this aesthetic world no it’s that aesthetic one .. it’s all about contrast ; no it’s all about grain ..

A beginning is a very delicate time…. when to plant.. to transplant

you can’t show it on the web . things can’t be talked about, as we talk about things, on the web .. We diminish ourselves by remaining around those with such on explored opinions. they never deepen; they never widen. they fester like an unhealable wound. you won’t limp if you trim your nails, correctly. it’s the gangrene that will kill you .

after, maybe before “crankyvBulks” –Long term vBulls tend to hate Youtubers and reddits .. hobbiests frown on the new. there’s never enough room on the shrinking ice pack for extra mouths

PUSH, DON’T shove …divided over developers and the microphen section... The patent about microphen effective replacement makes use of a pre-bath.

>> steps exploded: pre-soak > developer > post-soak, ie. 2nd bath in divided developer system. This is the other way of grasping the ‘developer’ step in photochemical procedure. <dev-stop-fix.>

 “good thinking has always been, in part, a self-isolating enterprise.”

The slide needs eleven, but you’ve only got five… make two 5’s .. an upper and a lower..

The Box is a product … as is the Film inside.

Who owns the brand? Who makes the Film .. the Yellow Box of Upstate NY. Ask the government sites — ownership is legal concept. Rights are registered. The forms are online. They reveal the owner, dates, disputes, law firms to contact for additional information or action.

  • Eastman Kodak .. makes emulsions.. has marketing rights. has sold rights.
  • Kodak Alaris .. has marketing rights .. distributes some brands, but is keyed toward software, imaging systems for offices.
  • Blue ISO.. has marketing rights

Who makes, sells, or is otherwise involved in what was once the Kodak films from my lab days no longer matters to my work. I don’t buy “Kodak” anything… for similar reasons that I don’t buy based upon shipping & handling — from Amazon/B&H/ und zo vitah.. They drop their cloak — I don’t intend to pay for my yoke.

the age of petromodern fades into fossil fog 

sunday bullpit –6.21.26

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character inflation

people associate themselves with something they think will impress you ; they think is valuable . they do this as they reach for examples.. this, is like that.. frequently, amongst amateur photographers, it seems to be food.. fast food versus slow food. prepared by others– prepared by you.. with you being gourmet ,custom ,elite.. tellingly , most amateur photographers that don’t hold up to the best of that word amateur have diminished vision of cooking as well. Their examples include such things as retrieving fine steaks from their freezer.. however, Kobe beef is never frozen, is never ground. you lose the flavor of the Kobe cooking.. sushi grade fish is not frozen.. never.

rubbing elbows, walking by a bank ,does not make you richer. living near a university does not make you more educated .. building a better play at liars dice doesn’t make you more honest.. it will fool the news hungry ,the novice , naïve, budding Ansel acolyte..–

The amateur exaggerates more than the professional .. The amateur is always in awe of task or performer. Since frequently they overestimate the task, the difficulty of the task , they overestimate the person who has achieved a task.. they think more equipment is needed than ever was.. thinking dye transfer — my sink is bigger than your sink type of process. But not to dye printers. To amateur non-printers it was a task too far. So far, they spent years buying instead of trying. And then it was gone.

… AND, professionals that appear on amateur, aka, enthusiast forums are usually selling; either workshops, learning materials, something … it seems they give away, and some things they do ,but they never give away what they intend to sell…

I’ve often been wary of the professionals asking advice of the amateur forums..why ask someone who buys film by the box about a capital expense?  why ask a group stalled at agitation and storage practces about complexity of re-exposure reactions? why stunt your personal imaging with the ‘refusal’ glasses — don’t look at Man Ray.. do you think you will arrive at some other place .. whoops, you didn’t.. your enforced astigamism blinded you to more than three alternate routes you could have considered in your slow-mo decade on the hobby spots.