masking and unmasking A gathering of those who talk much, take few photos. Big cameras on big vacations for small concepts. It is over. Is it over. What is it. You're already late to the wedding. There has been a divorce, and the bride has changed partners. The digital market cracked the sensor/file barrier 2012. Lff practitioners have changed as have the main process. Digital, if output matters, dominates this group; all groups. Output is digital, input is following. Currently it is crap scan of film. Digital has been tacked onto bellows cams since 1994. Sinar etal Is a flex-lens, view camera enough. It has t/s & shifts. If it has 35film, is it. How bout ff sensor, but less than 20meg? Is the size of print important; 4x5 contact, too small The more generic this becomes, what does it have. What did you want to do Have you done it Is this place a place of unique info When horses become horsepower, does the jockey club become the stock racer club If your medium has nothing visible to offer, does it need to remain Are you providing a place for people with nowhere else to go. Is this a chat for the lonely The big bit info is available in no less than 4 online fora. None of the two larger ones prohibit or restrict film or camera configuration: box or bellows welcome. Since the info is available elsewhere, what is wanted. Control of conversation? The 2 principal forum have changed drastically in the past 2 years. But both remain active supporters of vendors. Product releases occur along with some support from company ees. Will lff include b&s for sensor style equipment Will they go, if you don't open discussion. Who will come No. Only those who can't fit at either big dog or little boy. A haven for those unable to contribute to the existing conversations on Lula or getd or the vendor support forums Alternatives Starting a group is costless, trivial. If they need it, they will start it. Drop the forum portion; it seems to have more wobble than direction; time and needs have changed quickly. Look at the founders and influencers to see (hominum) Keep static info for those who come later. Maintain a buy sell for view camera buffs The direction seems obvious. Lff, as conceived and built has run its growth. It wasn't a perennial. It has become a hybrid. Next comes impotent stock for clippings. Large format, largely forgotten.
Category: paradox lost
what you will want
[6.17.21] Richmond Where
no matter the richmond
a swiss army darkroom failed the unpack give seeds to the crow plants nothing everywhere. blasters so long Josh Ritter. Theseus -- successful at every thing that doesn't matter
Snobby Hobby:
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
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