The Pirate Dance

Mimesis eventually mimes itself
a copy of a copy — the barber’s walls

Above from an overnight — finding that it mates with a technote. technight : below

making duplicates or copies is trivial — schematically. circa 1980, we in labs had ready available lab films suited to the process flows of this note. I’ve written notes about the how-to using current emulsions — somewhere on webionaire.

above and below. how I know.

[The mode of literary criticism in which Mimesis operates is often referred to among contemporary critics as historicism, since Auerbach largely regarded the way reality was represented in the literature of various periods to be intimately bound up with social and intellectual conventions of the time in which they were written. In this he followed Giambattista Vico.]– wikip

old books — old codes

old books have decoder rings we once had to use.
digitalPranksternotc
we worked in the dark. Photography was a tactile experience. the eye and hand worked at the same task, connected by memory. A skill, not as much as drawing, yet drawing the mind to your body nevertheless. It is still a simple mediation to load and process film.

all process has it’s own code. film notch is just one

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