the page2 of glycin-gone

every war has a whore patch. The bleachers, the sidelines — those who can’t do, cheer, claim, proclaim. With nothing but hearsay, they say much. They are without nous.

so what . so what’s the difference . so what’s it to me ? The chatter clique dilutes the craft; frequently out of fear of losing standing, even though the standing is among the multitude of casual crafters as intent on social gossip as they are in advancing their skills. They replacing experience with gossip. These back-benchers share another common habit – they dislike “art-speak” — even as they fail to grasp the disdain of their “snobby-hobby” formulas.

Tanning developers longest use was in dye-transfer (imbibition) printing. There are many posts on this topic on webionaire.

PMK supply is in decline, as is most of the chemical based photographic world. The on-again, off-again extremes of demand make reasoning about making chems for general consumption a risk. Prepared chems are profitable, but not risk-less. Researchers have little opportunity to recover from a single failure, which is likely why they supply standard solutions. Deeper budgets have already explored those hills. Maps of success are available at the counter.

venom, vengeance among the Camp followers. craft culture Delayed until vacation or retirement. A Hobby to fill time … Sharpening pencils hoping someday you’ll have something to write .

[ Parkinson’s Law of Triviality – which states that, “The time spent on any item of an agenda is in inverse proportion to the sum involved,” with a local example where it took the Singapore City Council “six hours to pick a new man for the gasworks and two and a half minutes to approve a $100 million budget ]