On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 07:48 -0500, Judy Prince wrote:
> Hmmm.....ok, but rather like cotton candy [dyed spun sugar on a
> stick].
One of the depressing things about still photography in art galleries is
wading through what Kant would term mannerism. (That's the polite way to
say crap, so I understand.)
How did the digital video go? Did you still need a crew of at least
camera, sound and direction? Last video format I used was Hi8 and
digital video seems little to no different, although surround sound
would take quite a bit of extra work by the sound of it.
Ansel Adams, Minor White and the zone system poetics is quite
intriguing, like some sort of democratic Romanticism which contradicts
what Romanticism is said to be. The break between Romanticism and
Modernism here takes on very twisted shapes, given that the Romanticist
Zone System poetics came after the Modernist photographic poetics. Worth
reading more about, I suspect. Worth having a quarrel with to find
something new.
And for something completely different...
As for heterosexual men worried about not having the biggest cock, what
Freud called penis envy, they seem everywhere when it comes to
photography, still and video, in any space whatsoever, sprouting off
what for them is their technical genius on the Internet. One even
claimed to be using the Zone System with 8 bit video he wanted then to
convert to 32 bit HD with Cine-paint and was asking for a script. An
obvious case of penis envy given the way he demonstrates a complete lack
of any knowledge of the systems he claims to be master off... quite a
worry, this sort of specimen.
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