On 8/01/2012 11:14 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> I currently use Win 7 on one machine and various blends of Linux on several
> others.
Many thanks for this discussion. It gives another perspective, which I
should try to understand more, given that poets are more or less forced
to engage with computers in many ways, despite the various poetics.
Since I go to poetry through media arts and to media arts through poetry
computers and digital/electronic imaging is something I have done for
some time. But to stop thinking in terms of what can be done with
digital imaging and to simply think of how poets use computers,
internet, and so forth... it is a sort of a pause which marks a line
break, if that makes sense.
Have finally, after some ten years of playing got something with the
Gimp, a cheap point and shoot digital and a cheap netbook, that I feel
works and works in the way that poetry has to work. Ubuntu Unity can be
clunky but much easier then MSWin. My mistake was to download the Gimp
extras, since these scripts do nothing I already do with multiple layers
except to limit the variations I would add by my manual method. It is
working with 8 bit RGB colour, by nature a limited finite colour range
which I find a challenge over film. I also use Gimp with Adobe RGB cci,
since this is required for high end Glicee (from the French for small
spray... you have to laugh at this marketing term) prints. best cj
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