1 Mar 2018 – folio / in process update
Later today will add to the ‘folio’ front page some work. Various odd place pictures in this posting.
All done in-camera (as we of studio world used to say)
Valentines Is The Only Holiday
It strikes me that holidays are frequent and pointless.
Maybe that is age, not wisdom. Yet, valentines day is made up to sell someone else’s words, pictures, packaged emotion. It is meant to be unwrapped not unpacked or understood. We are supposed to assume the meaning, like most transfers, it has to be already known to be clearly understood.
Valentines say hello in childish importance.
Valentines say hello in mature memory.
The heavy commerce around this is filled with fake passion, consumption, emotion. Picked and packed by others. Comicly presented as an afterthought of some guilty, forgetful, oh so typical male.
So why is it the only holiday of my year? because it is crafted so badly it could be ignored. This is a day like every other day among commerce, but it pretends to be about love, not resurection. Just simple love between, but not among.
not yet.
Walking Againward
getting to your past work. And then
this is another multi delayed post. I liked the title. wrote it down, then forgot what I’d wanted it to be about. Happens too often.
While digging through last years work, I noted many that could fit into much older carts so put in the sub-head: getting to your past work.
A week passes and I’m thinking about carry cameras and how they may need permits someday. More importantly I’d discovered a very old note of mine with: Small Camera is the Big Invention. Whereupon I made a picture of some of my carry cameras.
The 3 cameras – 2 are film cameras. The one at the bottom (with a screen) is digital. It is the only camera I still use. The film cameras are no longer used. Film isn’t available. Not new film.
Odd, isn’t it, that the supposition of film is forever, digital is transient, subject to passing fashion doesn’t survive a simple againward glance.
- minolta 110 (1976 – 1979) – I used this camera for several thousand rolls of film. The flash on it is a Nikon strobe which served to guarantee my night-time excursions would provide negatives that startled
- cannon elph (1996 – 2002). Used APS cartridge system. Many hundreds of rolls.
- sony cybershot (uses JPEG – format first used in 1992, 25 years old now) JPEG is used in medical imaging so will probably be around for many more years.
Againward
Don’t be so sure of your past until you’ve lived it.
Don’t rely on someone else’s prescription for your process
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