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overnights: 11/22/22

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numbers that match. numbers that seem to make more than they are. numbers that have look to them.

is there such
a thing as aesthetic scientist
arts engineer

after political scientist

the pictures are gone; the arguments remain

idea over
witness 
testimony
buddhist at war
vegetarian in cattle country

withering words
whittling


forumboards -- dwile away the time
anselscapes as core. roots rocks and manzar manscape

fear of chemistry, like loving woodworking but hate dust

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recapping: 2000 politics failed democracy . 2002 military failed US. 2008 economy failed US. 2016 rinse-repeat
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carbon ... emulsion in general ... hand job
the hand made flavor
favoring effort of <<<< over >>>

because if it can't raise to art, it can be hard craft skill
the harder it is the nobler... how second son of you

overnights: Nov 20,22

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writers who became photographers
wright morris
william burroughs

photographers who became writers
barry lopez
least heatmoon

And Now they tend
to talk like the loudest -- most bullying

[koraks, now,  tells stories like wiley]
// almost posted to photrrio
// also, considered highlight and St Regis on LFF

// they can’t change

it has nothing to do with the price or the

how expensive or how heavy the enlarger; not even whose grandmother can beat your grandmother.

Capitalism is a byproduct of defective democracy and capitalism is the curse of democracy a cancer
"One cannot live in a democracy and despise the popular arts "Mortimer Adler 1937

american arts ... jazz and photogrraphy... not invented, revamped forms of another's commerce. not inherently commercial, then becoming much more so

then morphing and migrating off shored
assured, then off shored

painting from italy to france to america
photography from france to america to other euro 


build the world
once again you’ve seen how fragile the world… yet how interconnected.. make your portion stronger. make it bigger.. make it shared that is the advantage of distributed protocol (ideals)

nutshell: Essential Skills

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the test strip and trial print are necessary steps to making prints. Concept: test strip; ring around.

enlargers using the common lamps can be setup at the same starting point. A normal grade (2) for 10 – 20 seconds at f/16.

make first adjustments in extremes: try to “cross-over” to the other condition in one step. Print is too light? Make it too dark.

printing is discovery. writing is thinking. thinking makes new discoveries.

making ‘cardboard’ jigs — aids to covering emulsions during exposure

[ until she found out she could sing, she was just another horny woman from houston ]

the simple relation is exposure controls density of result. it gets as complicated from this as you may wish to go. there are two forms this failing: short exposure, and long exposure — reciprocity failure isn’t as common in short as long. tests from makers aren’t reliable beyond 10 seconds, nor for multiple short exposures. they don’t have the equipment to test this. (sensitometers)

color paper designed for laser exposure is designed for short exposures. that for common darkroom enlarger lamps is designed for long exposure.

the most essential skill: finding information. first: look the manufacturer. next, look to references published by university, research publications. never use forums as your first nor consistent source of information: they are replays of each other’s opinions. if they haven’t published a book; if they don’t have a website with pictures — they are only magpies not eagles. their opinion is their’s don’t automatically make it yours.