P3D Re: Bruce is Born to Run (On)

[Bruce Springsteen <bsspringsteen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Brother Dottle said "Amen".
Dok T saith:
> Why stop at the manual camera?  Why accept commercial 
> processing of your film?  Go a few steps further... 
> process your own film.  And I am not talking about this 
> new miniature 35 mm film on a flexible base... No sir!  
> I am talking about large glass plates, 1 hour exposure 
> times (in full sun please!)... etc.  Ahhhh... These 
> were the times... Maybe it was not fun but it was 
> serious business.  Yes sir!  You've got to labor to 
> enjoy the results...

Well, that's a terrific idea, though I'm not sure about the labor for
labor's sake part!  In fact more young photogs seem to be returning to
those very tactile, elementary technologies - a way of visiting their
ancestors and perhaps in retreat from the thundering avalanche of
inscrutable "smart" gadgets.  They want to clear their heads and
experience the basic event - capturing light in a box and freezing an
image there.  Of course this will be the only option when digital drives
out commercial/consumer film use entirely, so may as well start mixing
those chemicals...

But let me repeat my premise - technology is not bad, technology that is
devised to avoid the trouble and expense of thinking and learning and
dealing with live human beings - that's bad, and we are ever more up to
our scalps in that kind of innovation.  It's a mass delusion of our day
and a threat to the smarts and the arts, to the quality of services
available, and to human workers who deserve better than to watch the
machines run.

Did I mention we're about to buy our first modern computer?  I'll keep the
old one though, because I can actually write my own programs on it.  Call
me a Luddite. ;-)

Bruce (Scourge of the Expert Systems) Springsteen









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