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Camera Clod

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“The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose; Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear.

Make a hairbreadth difference, and Heaven and Earth are set apart; If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against.The struggle between ‘for’ and ‘against’ is the mind’s worst disease;”

Jianzhi Sengcan  & Bruce Lee

The quote is used by current advocates of psych-splaining morality; with charts, and drawings of Men in Manchu costume.

It isn’t illustrated using the fighting figure of Bruce Lee, the importer of this mannerism. The path of the Camera Club Clods is to sound the horn without anyone hearing.

FOMO: Jun/19

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Keeping track of supplies ain’t easy. Yes it is! That is what twitter, instagram do well: keep you posted. It is someone’s job to feed the feed with news about products.

Those links will keep you knee deep in kit. And, you will be ahead of the online gossip gatherings.

Yep, I understand the link to Facebook/Instagram and the Falseword World. You don’t have to publish to read. You won’t perish. AND those seemingly friendly forums are just like the nice folks helping you at the Miami Bus-Station.

Sometimes the thief you see is better than the one you don’t.

postcards of the hanging

Artist Life

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Reset the clocks. Run the short loop. Walk the long way back.

Breakfast is grits and sweet potato. Veg sausages and espresso

Off to the garden shop — bags of mulch, compost; no seeds. They’ve already come from online stores. Skip the starter plants. They always tempt, but they never grow as well as from seed, or direct planting in the yarden.

Put prints from yesterday into flatten press.

Into the darkroom. Re-print yesterday’s negatives using softer developer. Ilford Multigrade and 1+9. Simple, reliable. Spend time testing imagery not chemistry.

Prints looking good. Mix scones. Bake scones. Lunch. Rice and yogurt. Start new rice. Back to darkroom

Go to next negatives on list of ‘print for edit’ — always 8x10s. Keep process simple, repeatable. Expand other areas of praxis.

Prints washing. Read some. Avoid the dead-enders, the freezer geezers that dominate the Web Forums.

Set prints drying. Cut veg for dinner. Plot out midnight readings.

Seek out Winogrand Color book? Not published?

Oh, write this and post. Do more. Do more often.

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