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artown rewritten using electrons. journeys into digital imaging. leaving the light, entering the electron.

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everyone wants to be relevant none more so than the amateur  who has never been relevant never noticed in their field never noticed in their craft … they fight over the small opinions, the scraps. Where does the fight in the scrapyard arrive?

The know it all’s that do little make the biggest mistakes.

Your first action reveals your past ability.

not even an imaginative mea culpa 

Chuck: “THEN all we’ll hear is about the horrors of “the man”, “greed” and all the rest of it so popular these days from people with no skin in the game.” “I’ve done my share of consulting in large (or even very large) businesses. You see this all the time. When something gets really big, people lose sight of whom they serve and what their larger mission is. The preservation of the status quo becomes more important and leadership hunkers down in “protect” mode. That was true at Kodak, but it is equally true of many large institutions including big business, big church, big government, big charity, big entertainment …”

[ wonder who he skins; (until another time)]

Spirit of Honesty. Behind the report is the person. SEC reporting. Kodak reports critically, but with dropping share price makes clarification. Seems that owner culture tied to stock comp means we explain beyond the rules. We engage in optimism sales talk.

FujiFilm doesn’t do that. They are prepared for the persistent ocular-secular perception of being “inscrutable” — they file and say to all the same thing. Without so much as a Chatham rule.

NBR link to stock Kodak vs. Fuji and publication of financial data to be used by investors. What they are buying, including elements of hazard the company knows. The open hand of the west, but only the east accepts in letter and deed .

When you bought your house, you didn’t move it. It isn’t a couch. Same with buying a business. The sign changes. Perhaps as easy as adding: “A Division of ..[your name here]” — No bull dozer. No bullshit. Perhaps this is something only those in the “ology” fields perceive. The demi-quantz miss most of the actual questions. Must be biology, or such — so much for degrees of meritocracy.

“… They are indispensable instruments of our modern civilization, but I believe that they should be so supervised and so regulated that they shall act for the interests of the community as a whole.”

Kodak’s response to their skinned knee: https://www.kodak.com/en/company/blog-post/statement-regarding-misleading-media-reports/

How Many Pages Does It Take

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to answer the hobbyists rudimentary question:

“Can anyone give me the times to develope(sic) FB paper in Ilford Multigrade paper developer. Ilford Ilfostop and Ilford rapid fixer? Thank you!”

in the land of time and temperature, it helps to be able to take the temperature of the room.

The direct answer is: https://www.ilfordphoto.com/amfile/file/download/file/1828/product/709/

Multigrade Paper Developer diluted 1+92 minutes1.5 to 3 min useable range
Multigrade Paper Developer diluted 1+143 minutes2 to 5 minutes range
Ilford Stop bath 1+1910 secondsup to 30 seconds
Ilford Rapid Fixer 1+41 minuteup to 5 minutes
absolute beginnings for Ilford Chemistry

… after more than 300 posts in the topic, it continues. Although, they no longer even try to answer the question, instead they answer each other — address each other as adversaries in a game of King of the Mountain. Among some, it seems they are playing Liars Dice, a popular game among the barstool photographers.

The simpler the question, the longer, more convoluted the answer. After enough time, we get into our deeper selfishness — pull out our basics.

how many old timers does it take to kill a thread.

Wiley is always throwing someone out of the store: Truitt and White.

Sadly, Mr. Bill gives credit to the vainglorious, and in doing so, takes it from himself. I wonder where he worked that he managed their color systems and is unable to see the errors Wiley makes.

The large portrait chains were called Kidnappers, since they offered free, or loss leader photos, then charged increasing amounts for reprints. The largest of the chain studios was Olan Mills, doing $475million (est) in 1993. Other studios: Varden, CPI in Sears, PCA in K-Marts, American Studios in WalMarts. Approximately $5B business in portraits in the US.

Hob Snobbin Large Format Style

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Denny’s house of quits, bungles, booze — grand slams. An exploration in quits and stays.

So long. Been less than great.

The thread includes appearances from the main character types on the grand slam Large Format Forum. The main actor, the prompt for yet another caution post is the man who can’t afford photoshop cause his company doesn’t pay for internet.

Drowning my sorrows. 

snobby hobby

The cobbler bench of the dread thread.

Only one person said goodbye; took no offense. The others piled on like locker jocks at junior high. Of course the moderator proclaimed his effete status. Top of the heap of the snobby hobby — holding his glass atop the fat leg. Gotta love the selfie-ness of his life. Just another privileged consumer who should be exercising their legs instead of their privilege; their ego existence.

The burst responders provided:

Apparently not here, since I reported the OP two minutes after it went up with the suggestion that his whining “grand exit” post be deleted. Since Oren let it stand, I suppose he decided there’s more value in emphasizing the rules than hiding violations of them.  

by Sal Santamaura

A person who needs definitions is also one dependent upon rules — verified, enforced. If you, the owner’s agent won’t do it, it falls to me the wandering poster.

Who remains?

The end game is a swap shop at the end of the hobby. It is run by Moodle managers, redundant Government contractors, engineers that became ‘special project’ managers. These are the gatekeepers.

what remains. who

the ash. the residue. is inactive. but the key of the  gathering. the structure revealed by stress.

skeleton begins with the first bone

when he quit, they were angry. Why? He said he didn’t fit; that statement brought out the gang in them — Why become angry because someone chooses to leave you. Are you that lonely; fearful that you are losing air; power; influence?

10 years ago, when someone left, some of the group reached out. A decade later and the swap meet kicks over the sale sign and shouts at the poster. Then, they return to their congratulations about the exclusive knowledge, craft commitment and pride of honor for carrying the Great Analog Tradition. Art for the Weekend. Art on Vacation. Triumph in Retirement.