Category: art biz

Happy 122424

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children and childhood in the uncomfort zone beyond the comfort pick up your children and throw them at the world  — but do it with a camera 

Women re-revising their childhood; their adolescence; their children as memory props, children as merch

it’s all become just another book on the shelf 

122424
Stages
Music. Lyrics. Dance. Occasion
providers of the occasion are those receiving greatest reward.
We are not randomly inlueninfluenced. There is a shuffle of the influence/exposure.
Making pictures are based, prompted by triggers & response repetition
this things produce that slide show in your psyche, visual paths,

Much 21st century photography is an extended caption.
Limited paths
cards in a deck there is a limited number but an infinite shuffle 

A limited number but an unlimited shuffle 

The triggering more fix the Henry Home Smith and the glass sculpture trigger the same interactions shapes on the Earth are of the Earth shapes within a culture are of the culture 

/yellow pad overnight December 24 24

Photographs or just office supplies in the visual factory 
Paper clips in the art factory 
aura: divinity

stature of being beyond

calling something cinematic provides the heightened reverence of the commercial cathedral of movies 
calling a movie something that is entertainment for children and board workers calling at cinema turns it into the chapel of culture of high culture the no brow eyebrow to the pinky 
wearing a wife beater's becomes a member of the beefeaters 
b theaters?
covid & artworlds

by destroying the gallery and growing the studio

as the Gallery closed the studio opened 
as the art fair closed the bookstore opened 
now the collector returns and the studio becomes a banana stand

Kodak Feared Risk

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becoming Silos of Silence. The paltry military mindset.

Management became intolerant. They couldn’t take a chance. Even now, those who were in positions of influence, having product control, cannot take a small risk. They rely on the hobby crowd to answer a question of low cost, low bar knowledge.

business is people making choices. they can be courageous, self learners, able and prepared to answer big questions, or — they stumble over the obvious.

“Can a cell phone be used without a phone service?”

A question the nineteen year old sales clerk at Verizon, or Apple could answer — even demonstrate.

“Yes”

who you ask is a source of confirmation error — 

  • ask the phone co
  • maybe the phone maker
  • anonymous strangers on the analog film forum (camera counter in last century)
  • try it…

A company may owe its investors, but it is a result of its employees efforts. Silos of silence; fearing crossing the hallways, those aren’t conducive to growing imagination — the fuel of researchers.


From the 60s up until the mid-70s, it was easy to obtain technical information from deep within Kodak. It would not be unusual that answers come from the desk of an engineer, not from a marketing representative. In 1963, I was able to meet two engineers without effort; even taken on a tour of the coating of Pan Matrix Film. At the end of that meeting I was given the name of those in charge of paper making [mordanting] … No NDA sought.

The fearful employee is a weak one, making decisions based upon avoiding any risk. If the employees at management levels lack imagination, or courage, or resilience, the company will fail; capital will not save it, anymore than oxygen cures cancer.

Taking pride in your military like precision came after the 80s. Those few retired Kodak technicians remained silent, secretive long after any enforceable NDA had expired. Allegiance to the dollar; perhaps they thought they could make money off their knowledge. That didn’t happen; old knowledge is worth  old money– not much

Kodak lost the chemical race to the DuPonts, to the companies like Fujifilm that began calling themselves material sciences companies in the 70s.

Even Kodak’s “other” coating businesses continue failing; the microfilm, as well as the NDT & dental films have closed. The analog bounce has left for the instant Asia.

Japanese corporate culture strives for continuous improvement.. their silence isn’t the silence of secrecy it’s a silence of respect of all the investors if they win till one. They tell all or none ,just like the SEC requires. US culture values insider trading — values it so much, it must be hidden