after — IEEE sept 2011 “Aesthetics and Emotions in Images” //37213 copy — engineers try to feel their way into the meaning… there must be an equation , or at least an algorithm for this, since we’ve gotten so far. we must be better than artists. aren’t we creatives too. don’t we feel. why do we need art among the artists. isn’t that a failed salon an attempt to impart high level semantics to image content associating pictures with aesthetics (what do they mean) and emontions with low-level image composition “idea of Gestalt psychology relevant to aesthetics is called “physiognomics,” which states that certain objects and human behavior are inherently expressive of specific emotional states. Thus, a weeping willow looks sad because willow branch- es convey the expression of passive hanging. “ // not because we call it weeping … share the sense of falling
Category: big bits
primarily digital
reason 4: delay
reason #4 for “it makes it art” is: delay – art takes longer. Film slows you down, so you do better work – making higher craft – result is better art.
EXCEPT: I take longer to process my digital files than I do my film. Most film is souped the day I shoot it — another reason I like 120 or sheet film. In an out fast.
look, shoot, soup, look … while my digital stuff can be in camera for a week before I upload, review, tag.
once again – taint the pencil that does the writing – not even an electric one.
Thin Ice
film is on thin ice.
When a major film maker, Kodak, Ilford, put film onto reduced production schedule, we are on the edge of another meltdown.
When production can be triggered by a handful of large users, film is in low use. This is a hotdog stand waiting for the game to end
Ilford makes 3 of my most used films. Ortho plus and SFX are coming up on short supply in the US. Apparently I have bought the last of the O+ from B&H several months ago. This triggered the special make run. Following up on the special, special run, I discovered that Ilford will be making O+ every other year.
Tough to make a business based upon a weak supply line. (bob carnie and friends)
SFX was also cleaned out, with only 28 rolls! So, I went to Freestyle and took what they had. That order is on the road, parked in Red Rock Arizona. Will be at my door in the morning.
I have said that I’ll be shooting film until 2020 – that may be optimistic, given the fragility of film supply. Film, that I use, has a decidedly film look, and use. Most films are made to eliminate grain, scan easily, produce flat/linear highlight and shadow rolls – These are all characteristics of digital’s innate performance; except, no need to scan – shoot and go.
What this means to me, is that I will have to order more – sadly, the IR type films don’t store, 3-4 years is their limit for extended sensitivity. The sensitizing dyes are only, just barely stable enough to last.
And so it goes.
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