Growing Fora

they will come, goog brings them for a specific question. assistance needed a 411

they cant stay, since the conversation is uninteresting – why they want to make pictures isn’t addressed

how to make them better, more interesting, how to make meaning out of the world

went to NOLA, essentially a party town, to see art. the pop up was, to me, a popover. sugary sameness. like the restaurant it aligned with – they knew what to say, they didn’t know what to do.

the menu was: local, organic, fresh – but the delivery was based upon blending salt and sugar

a community of pretenders, not practitioners … this is an idle, an attempt to get somewhere else in their life, somewhere their world doesn’t permit, provide

Adobe Cloudscape. Kodak Fade

photoshop is D-72, as lightroom is dektol. with the cloud change, Adobe told you what Kodak never did – you aren’t the future of the image space

the still image is just poetry; meanwhile everyone else has gone to the movies.

Updated as Fuji prepares its departure from the darkroom — April 2018

unlike the movies, there is no concession stand to pay the employees to maintain an empty theater. Fuji’s coating is minuscule compared to its colorant chemistry division. Their patents are now for sensor and inkjet chemistry. The darkroom is no longer profitable.

Once again: a truck stop on the interstate makes (earns) more in a month than Ilford does in a year.