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language has no meaning, words mean everything, the platform of thought is language, the mind is mapped by its words … yet change happens

Dos Mexans

Posted on Posted in babl, bushovism, K Street Y, Koch Sucker, on TV, wargasm

After a few night reads, a glint off the border wall — what they don’t see– their Foreignness in a land of different food. They live on an edge.

First, they come for your neighbor, then for you. You voted your protector out; you ar no longer safe. You’ve coted him into your house, your home is gone. He will discover your foreigness even in Texas.

Election eve celebrations alerted me to the impacts that TV, and Other radio has. The fantasy of a vicious other eats at their table nightly. The replay of Floridians sporting “Jesus is my savior, Trump is my president” — jubilation shaking behind him. Knockers Up.

Perhaps after we take back Cuba and Panama, you’ll get that dream job at the Casino or Pleasure Place[lugar de placer] [animadora]

Accented, isn’t he afraid of being deported? Nope. Skip forward till coronation day along the Texas border. They too are delighted that the immigrants will be stopped. Deported. With accent, to my non- ear similar to Florida, as well to the interviewed immigrant seeking refuge across the border. That family has travelled 7 months to wait in Mexico’s provided shelter. They aren’t Mexican, but speak Spanish, like the Mexans, glad that Trump will keep them out, away from their minimum job.

If these Red Clothed Americans of McAllen were speaking in St Louis, or Boise, or Philadelphia, their status would be suspect. Hell, in most of Texas it is doubted. Their status is only distinct in their minds and ears.

They voted YES to roundup, barbed wire incarceration and eviction in the 2024 election. Check your papers. Check your parents papers.

No one is now free in America. The French should take their torch back

Billions back for a crippled Texas? Why couldn’t Gregg Abbs at the wheel, patrol better. Perhaps his ground round patrol Sheriffs couldn’t understand you. They could patrol, and arrest. 11Billion dollars? Not visible in the Texas borderland.

When an employee of a state says he hasn’t done his job for at least 4 years… He has had perfect protection, as well as being part of an 11 billion dollar Texas protection empire. Just ask the Governor, maybe a senator. Texas is and has been committed Red for thirty years. Democracy died here last century — a Democrat isn’t permitted a committee chairmanship. The rural rules the city, completely.

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Amateur Quest.ions

Posted on Posted in babl, da net, overnight notes, the LabTagged ,

The outpost of the bachelor herd. Those old timers who didn’t do the stuff they will be asked about; they’ve become the experts.

  • they ask shopping questions. They use the forum as if it were a sales counter on Saturday, the day the weekend warriors get to pretend they do THIS for real.
  • the same group rejects, out of ignorance and arrogance, the question of a newcomer. New in the process, not in imagination– at least imagination prompted by broader reference imagery than the Snobby Hobby.

Stages of the meaning of amateur: what do they provide us? How can the task of understanding be accelerated? Follow a thread, re-constructed for revelation of the question-response cycle of early participants in an online community of practice.

One person. the OP, is a professional lab printer with many years of experience. As he ventures further away from the longtime standard darkroom print, he seeks out answers from the unknown members of a forum. [this took place in 2016 (over 2 days) ] The general topic filters doesn’t seem to be retained; it becomes a topic in which expertise dissolves — it doesn’t stay with the group, no matter how many times it is repeated — the group mind has no memory. They don’t learn.

Oddly, the professional lacks the knowledge, therefore, must ask a group of unknowns. He, likely, assumes they have more experience than they do– he is, even more likely, hoping they have more experience than he does.

Why would he assume that they know how to make studio photographs with filters that will be solarized? None of them exhibits solarized work. Few of them show anything other than landscapes; typical outdoor scenics of the great west.

Effect of filter. Effect of solarization.

Effect of lacking foundation skills to be a professional: will rely upon those of lesser skills. Probably meaning you haven’t become an independent, valuable provider to those with ability to pay well. Your chances of survival go down if the skill in your market rises. As widespread darkroom skill declines, you get to survive. Luckily, that is the course of the century. The lights are being turned off.

// success is timed. Multiply your costs factor. A well defined question provides pathway to correct, useable answer. They are right about one thing: a book is better than them.

Wratten 12 (Y)
Wratten 11
Wratten 44 (cyan)
Wratten 25 (red)
contrast with BW film is relative to other colors.

Light source matters, as does color sensitivity of the BW film.

along similar lines, at least in the same quadrant of that (above) 2 year old note: we get another request for information from the same professional.

an adage pops up: you can lead a horse to water…

The person who can’t find information on their own, isn’t the person who will use the information well. Locating a vendor is an elementary part of running a business. Asking the hobby world makes you a hobbyist — and a foolish one, in this case.

Reliance upon a small group makes you either on the advance or the decline. The hobby forums are not the leading edge of chemical photography.

The conversation is complete. My observation: the newcomer should leave, so should the old timers.

Advise, constant, recurring: don’t ask the forums. In old ‘cology it was said: “don’t give away your eyes.”

You will learn more about your work by doing it. Don’t ask them, they really never did succeed. The Fromm’s and Friends are only noticed because they hang out in a space someone else provided. The tour bus drops you off where they can park, not where you need be.