I think it's a bit like music: after all, people are now paying a lot for LPs, again.
Thus what was will be along with what will be...
Yes?
Doug
On 2012-09-09, at 1:26 AM, chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Truth, being no defense against libel laws here, I cannot attribute this quote from the NY Times, but here it is! (And I cut and paste...)
>
> QUOTE:
> We're not talking about the disappearance of one material --- oil, watercolor, acrylic or --- we're talking about deep ontological and phenomenological shifts that are transforming a medium.
> END QUOTE.
>
> I simply cannot believe this quote was published! But then, any belief in the New York Times collapsed in the 1970s, so maybe I could not so believe?
>
> Obscure Latinate words from a long obsolete epistemology, no I am being far to generous, totally archaic ancient myths, being used to describe the GLORIOUS FUTURE OF DIGITAL FILM... long live digital... fascist ideology... fascist regime...
>
> Like he has just seen he missed the boat a few decades back, has jumped into the ocean to swim after it and these are his final last dying words as he slips into the deep blue water. A logic of suicide, no doubt.
>
> (Can someone really be this idiotic! I am seriously worried about him!)
>
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