another Night

if AI were enough to make a movie complex, then it could be used beyond first year violence effects. Instead of Artificial Intelligence it became Intelligent As … Maybe it could be a driver of cars, not merely investments — now, it, like all Valley Teck, is a maker of Table Chips for those unable to make anything. Well, okay, they do make promises of a future — mostly money based.

They tear up this sidewalk in order to make that sidewalk to the same place — between the same places.

The autonomous carbotplanting replaces a 7 year old with attention deficit, with a digital device without senses.

Consider your own skills of controlling machines — of walking across the beach. Take a swim at a natural experiment. How many senses do you use? Which ones can you control?

A car has impact with the road; planes are flown, when flown well, by more than EYE sight; night vision replaces or augments — the chopper crashes if it replaces.

[The crew was “fairly experienced,” and was conducting a night evaluation, Hegseth said. Night goggles were on board.] First, fresh responder words from the Weekend War Hero.

F surface. Ferrotype

F means Glossy, because it means Ferrotype. Most commercial labs used heated dryers to get through the days workload. When I began, I used a ferrotype plate. My ‘gloss’ was my mixture of print flattening agent with “white wax.” A tip from a carbro printing handbook, now long lost.

The prompt for this posting was a gallerist making a footnote about a Vintage Print being ferrotyped. That struck me as a marker — a word falling into the past. Googling the word gets the wrong, at least from my world, meaning.

The prints came off the dryer with a curl. It was essential to get the temperature, and speed of the dryer correct to avoid many possible defects. Another balancing act was spotting the print after it had been ferrotyped. Oh, Spotone was a later development; we made our own dyes before then, or used Kodak provided sets for their papers. I considered spots a defect — a marker of my lacking craft. Much as some consider lumps in mash. Now, I am less concerned, even putting lumps of potato into the mash, along with fried scraps of potato skin.

As I grew in looking, I dropped the need to draw with a sharp pencil.

Kodak Paper Surfaces

ASmooth, lustre, lightweight stock. Use for folding, paper negatives, ad layouts
EFine-grained, lustre. Preserves details, used for mechanical reproduction
GFine-grain lustre, use for portraits, oil coloring.
FSmooth, glossy == Ferrotype
NSmooth, semi-matte ==Natural. designed for retouching on print. Accepts pensiling, preserve fine detail
MMatte
SUltra-smooth, high-lustre
RTweed surface, minimizes need for fine retouching. Popular in photomural work
XLustre, tapestry surface. Extemely coarse-textured. Frequently colored with opaque ols, which gives effect of an oil painting on canvas
YSimulates silk. Popular for wedding photography. Attractive brightness in snow scenes, seascapes..

1958 darkroom guide, from my early days.