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Snobby Hobby:

Posted on Posted in A Symbol Life, creativity, da net, paradox lost, the fora1 Comment

an overdue post of collected post its.

not as much underachievers but achievers of mediocrity
Like the lazy beagle, they buy the T-shirt , listen to the story and say they did it.
repressive life, life deferred in the interest of easy meaning
now, even their gurus are park guides providing parking tips; where the best place to park is. parking lots with the best view
weeds. what everyone else does
they follow brands.. names.processes…
they will be insulted by this post, yet think it isn’t them. Let me specify: do you get your information, training, share consensus with the online forums: Large Format, Photrio, Luminous Landscape, Petapixel… then you are them. FOMO is your real brand even though you assert loyalty to Foma.
Source of their wonderment. Origins: they gather around first topics, the how, and with what. They’re readers of standardized magazines whose basis is advertising and trade show sponsors
dabbler, artist with more money than skill
weekend wanderers
counter pros
popphos
// casual vs. causal
questions raised are elementary rather than elemental.
workshopers
// hostile tribes trapped around a shrinking pond
// think that buying supplies is doing art. the best artist has the biggest supply cabinet
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tripods. triploders. tripodists
more fear than ambition. took up the camera because they were afraid of drawing
// the venal. vernacular
picture space. source/reference space. other than counter space where weekenders pick and choose as they are picked over.
// the audience, the buyer, the pitch. who are their colleagues. what assumptions of value are brought.
// outlet. nature of challenge. expectation of self
the spare time artists
offended by the full time show offs
the wanderers hike, and bike with cameras, clubbing through recreation for mantel memory
journique, phonique
names like sun. shadow. astral things. striving for captioning in a monochromatic world
on the tree of images. dead branches.
// people who have spent decades building their fantasy life are quick to defend their choice, even violently. Their way has to be the way.
perfection is not in danger

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remain close to its birth as tool for unskilled, idle wealth
those of temperament but lacking hand, time, observation.

until — used by artists as aid to /. connection with an automatic mechanical aesthetic, removed from a person. abstracting…

 until ,,, taken up by those blending its position, use, perception of it as thing

until,,, artists use it automatically. photographers become institutions 


the conversants change the conversation. anyone coming in enters through their easy access panel. art school forces the growth, but first gathers those who can reach their door handle.. probably not the easy bake gangplank of 1890 and failed draftsmen
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the paper has no magic property

things with magic properties go away, since the hobby, casual, weekend wannabe has no need of magic. they’re copying some classic.

drawing from pools you don’t like: arters and the instagrammrs..
anti-intellectual as well as being anti-amateur

yet your provincialism is tripods on the weekend / paper in 25 sheet packs
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Outliers just trying to out lie each other
 may be spelled correctly, just not honestly

aficionados

ever wonder why their heroes are unsuccessful second careers
people who aren’t fully occupied by their project management SEO paint dealership
people who have left a technical field come to this end of the pool expecting greater weekend meaning..

snobby hobby

Weightless Opinion

Posted on Posted in art biz, da net, Theory

Your opinion hits the internet without a sound. It doesn’t last. It has no weight. No mass. Yet, it doesn’t go away; not that fast.

I have recurring questions, of my own, and those of the common ground; those questions raised so often, by so many, they seem to have no author. Today, it is this one: who is the judge of your photography; how does it get seen; by whom?

This post was prompted by one person, Bob Carnie, and his online statement doubting the value of jpeg submissions for a print show. Does he believe this; does he live by this; or are his statements based upon FOMO and a rather small career as a working artist. He, aside from age, would be termed early stage artist. Instead of engaging in art making, he is a craft stumbler. By this I mean, he learns from the online weekend throngs. The people of the forum are his audience as well as his teachers. It is that group that he expresses to impress. What they share is gear talk; they’re all stuck in first gear.

They may appear to be action oriented, but most of their daily toil is chatting online. Sometimes, taking months to gather opinions that could be tested in their studio in hours. This is the ultimate FOMO (fear of missing out). What would Wilbur say?

Forums are the ultimate FOMO Socials

Two options, one judge:

were original prints submitted for viewing or jpegs of the prints… I am not comfortable to have work submitted to any online call for entry or competition where real prints are not being evaluated. with PS and lightroom a potato can become a diamond.

Bob Carnie, (about this show: https://www.photo-historica.com/finalselections

On the other hand, he is the judge for Xpose – CAPIC show in which you are told: Please submit all images to xpose@capic.org with the subject line “Xposé 2019”. In the body of the email please include: Your name, phone number, website, and title of photograph(s). Your image(s) should be 1200 pixels @72 dpi on the longest size, in JPEG format, and sRGB colour space https://capic.org/events/xpose/

By claiming that prints must be seen, they assert a privilege of object, a material object; something easily owned. Something for the wall. Additionally, they suggest that you have to make em to understand em. (no one understands poetry; no one makes it). In the case of the gum-over guy, this means 4 years on the internet, asking his fellow underachievers how, how-much it takes to do gums.

Opinion Over Judgement

Do as I say. Do I say what I believe? Are his statements consistent? Certainly, in one sense. He has a belief that jpegs shouldn’t be judged, but he will join in an event because it provides him other benefits. If he didn’t believe it, why would he support it? Maybe someone put a wallet to his head.

Ongoing Questions

  • why didn’t they get further. is their expectation blocking their experience. does the object stop understanding by reducing experience to that which can only be seen in person.
  • this isn’t that interesting, it doesn’t compare, compete in this on-screen world, but if you could see it, that thing I crafted so well, you would know I’m a good artist, one better than it seems from this distance.
  • we are better than the world of books and museums.
  • what is the photograph. who, how can it be judged? Who manages the bridge; maybe a troll.

A reminder of the founding question, our first stumble is over what makes something worthwhile. Is art supposed to be an object; something difficult to make?