3 posts tagged “film”
Loretto journalism, 1973 by
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i had a request from a friend to use this image for her thesis. ;)
This week I received an email announcing the "new" and "improved" Newspapertree. Sad to say I was underwhelmed, although the new editor sounded sincere. I expected new articles, yet they utilized retreads. I supposed that's ok; I missed them the first time.
One thing I'm glad about is that I missed this essay when first published. But I'm annoyed rather than pleased I finally found it. The essay is a rant against a certain sticker seen around town. Funny how he doesn't know the company behind this guerrilla marketing scheme. (Curtie helped me find out it was this clothing company about 2 years ago.) I think the essay makes the rantor appear foolish, a Luddite; he complains about
something about which he knows nothing. Or, maybe he is tired of
looking at the same sticker--a form of latent misapplied misogyny. Whatever. Here's hoping the next issue of Newspapertree is more interesting and better researched and written than the re-inaugural edition.
Now I appreciate all stickers for what they are: artistic anarchy. While they break the law, I just can't help but root for the applicant and the art. I marvel to see what lengths (albeit very dangerous ones) artists when they place
Guess I missed my calling, or maybe it is just in my blood. At least I can go around and create my own art based on their work. I'm the DJ and spin their stickers into images, frozen in time. Like this skull sticker--although neither the arroyo across from it nor the stickers remain. Both were obliterated last year: one by greed, and the other by law.
Here are ones I currently like: Obey Giant by Shepard Fairey, whose website and sticker promotion reminds me of the Toy Wars of the mid-90s, of which I am a veteran.
Already it is 2007 on the right coast, while here it is 10:39 p.m. 2006 and counting.
While organizing my music and preparing for transfer to my anniversary present from MJ (an Ipod Shuffle,) I found this list on Wired of their Top Ten Gadgets that “changed the world.” After reading the entry for the Kodak Brownie film camera, I thought I would weigh-in on the ongoing discussion of film versus digital. For me, I hope film never goes away. However, digital point and shoots are most likely the past's Brownie, which puts one more nail in the coffin for film.
Well, for the so-called “first world” maybe, but for the emergent world, not so much. However, I felt Null’s rhetoric was just a little too strong for me, especially about the Kodak Brownie. Although correct in its inclusion, I found him too flip in the pronouncement that “film is dead.”
Again, that idiotic "film is dead" aphorism. Get a clue, film will not die as
As for digital, how long can those bits and bytes
of information keep? On CD? DVD? How long will that
new digital Rebel last? How
long.
Who cares anyway? It’s either electronic gadget obsolescence in 9 months, or a future of failed or outdated memory storage to come. Strange that something manufactured and developed eons ago still works.
Face it, both can and will survive together, much to the consternation or cooperation of both parties.
