Category: A Symbol Life

How do I know …

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.. my disappointment with AI .. it drinks my water and eats my volts.. The world vantage: on the shelf , on the net. Keep a shelf full of references. Maintain alliances with research libraries. Reminder: the hallmark of the 21st century billionaire class — move faster than the consumer.. faster than the law. Yippee Caigh Yeah … and all that ..[ If they want to tax me, I move to Texas; if they want to arrest me, I move to Argentina }

in partial post fullfilment

The notebooks cover two years of darkroom processing. The thin one at the top is dye transfer (imbibition print ). The other two are labnotes for the other processing, printing done. This stack wasn’t the busiest of my life — not even close. These days [2026 ] my darkroom time is so low it doesn’t seem worthwhile to keep notebooks — just rely on the wall chart standards. I haven’t bought film or paper in for years.

Ask not the GrepBot — find references in 3 steps: ask generally; refine using a 2nd engine; pick 2 or more links to read. Ex: has fuji discontinued? Is Kodak still …

can’t find it at your local shipping included store? in a major market, USA? perhaps the market is no longer big enough.

If the big market shrinks, the iceberg is melting. Only ice cubes shall remain.

It will be gone… once more, why ask the unkowing? ask the maker, users…

those aren’t the ” How long can I store this..” people. Nor, the: ” the bottle I bought over 20 years ago still looks fine…”

In this past weeks exorcise with AI3, they each and every one shanked the “color negative” questioning. Agfacolor Neu and Ansco Color…

find an old dictionary specific to the field of interest. Use that instead of asking recent converts, or chat-boughts.

Entr’acte – 9,17,26

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if writing is for the drawer why not make it more Interesting to your future self…

wondering whether there needs to be a direction change ..

voluble is rarely valuable

When you Rise.

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when you awake do you look for what’s right, or what’s failed overnight.

growth or gloom .

upon first viewing, do you look for what’s best in the photograph, or what’s the worst . do you teach by pointing out their errors — or, … can you complete the line

can you get past the photograph . can you get past the subject of the photograph.. can you get past the limit you set yourself..

American Photographs — Weston to Beaumong Newhall, “I want the Walker Evans book. He is certainly one of our finest. When I see a photograph reproduced that I like, I usuallly find it is by Walker Evans.”  — september 23, 1938.