rule of snobby hobby

don’t make a picture you haven’t seen before.

make yours look like someone already proven
make it look famous.
 one button fame is too easy-- it should take a weekend at least

don’t make a picture no one else has made

snobby sites: experts without experience or knowledge.

if they fail in the facts of their life, expect them to fail in their factoring yours

your currency is your memories, tales of the past -- stick to that. sell those things, no need to show the occasional digitized stamp captioned by camera-chems chit chat. it doesn’t show, don’t show it. it doesn’t matter, neither do you.

ww: disassemble t/his dissembly  on misrach

factual
conceptual error — blindness of their craft snobbery
resentment: division. not letting (young) win

viva voce \/ a precis

drew on trip (exit LFF) & forum gains new threads, new posters. 16th->22
they ban others so readily, so frequently, why let Drew remain — must like what he says, think he has knowledge because they don’t.

DECLINE OF THE PROFESSION MAKES WAY FOR ASCENT OF AMATEUR

Digital EZ Lazy

Digital is so easy. Film is lazy.

building a process based upon rejection blurs actions — makes it difficult to fit your own way into your own confused critical viewscape.

follow the bouncing thought:

  • no ready profile to make negative means
  • he can’t do it, so
  • he must try another route.
  • even though, digital is too easy.

In the Blur World “anybody becomes a fine art photographer” using digital, since it is too easy to make pictures. While also being too frustrating for him to make an inverted negative on his own. Sadly, for him, it seems he wasn’t shown how to invert —

His problem is his own until he tells you what to do. And he does. As they grow, they reduce knowledge and awareness (narrowing towards nothing — pure noise).

Digital is too easy; just not easy enough.