tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635427135333425336.post4153383878984521940..comments2024-03-11T08:59:46.846-08:00Comments on FogBlog: pmEZ (postmodern End Zone)Herman Sheephousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16187303211437458425noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635427135333425336.post-14464132870971985212018-03-10T20:35:57.453-09:002018-03-10T20:35:57.453-09:00Already have and it has gone viral - as we speak t...Already have and it has gone viral - as we speak there's 11-teen billion shares on CrapNet and it is trending on Blind-Luck.Herman Sheephousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16187303211437458425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635427135333425336.post-80455398391403873802018-03-10T14:12:22.399-09:002018-03-10T14:12:22.399-09:00Fair enough, squire. Don't forget to publish a...Fair enough, squire. Don't forget to publish a photo.DavidMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635427135333425336.post-3891774048113858282018-03-10T06:03:29.224-09:002018-03-10T06:03:29.224-09:00Old net curtains, batik wax, fabric paint and an o...Old net curtains, batik wax, fabric paint and an old window squeegee around these parts squire - total cost about 10p - job done.Herman Sheephousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16187303211437458425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635427135333425336.post-44579773898556823472018-03-10T00:07:50.437-09:002018-03-10T00:07:50.437-09:00Will you be getting some iron-on digital transfer ...Will you be getting some iron-on digital transfer paper for the T-shirts or will it be Cyanotype? The transfer paper would be more ironic and confusing for the impartial observer. <br />Epson make some very fine machines for printing on fabric, too big and expensive for my bedroom or pocket. If you actually bought the T-shirts, they would almost certainly be printed on a digital machine. Other printers may be available.<br />If your principles impelled you to avoid digital printing, the hand-carved silk-screen stencil is still possible or (as you will know) the screen may be made photographically, by contact printing. There may be the remnants of a print-making department in a nearby art school, although it will probably have been re-labelled a university.<br />A Turin-shroud-like effect could be obtained by coating the Rollei with pigment and wrapping it in the T-shirt. You would need to consult the Vatican for details of the process. Pious forgery is beyond my expertise. <br /><br />[Welcome back to the screen, Bruce.]<br /><br />Incidentally, don't you think that the viewing screen on top of the Rollieflex looks suspiciously like the first blind, fumbling step towards the evolution of the live view screen on a DSLR? Evolution works in mysterious ways.DavidMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635427135333425336.post-84612814071678159402018-03-08T23:55:24.876-09:002018-03-08T23:55:24.876-09:00I can see it now!I can see it now!Herman Sheephousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16187303211437458425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635427135333425336.post-87523811765263009802018-03-08T23:06:34.833-09:002018-03-08T23:06:34.833-09:00Hahaha. Hilarious! You wear that one and I'll ...Hahaha. Hilarious! You wear that one and I'll get one with "HP5 - because we're worth it" on the front and maybe "Xtra Speshul" on the back.Bruce Robbinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13888340033630703603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635427135333425336.post-57667725617586695622018-03-08T20:49:03.994-09:002018-03-08T20:49:03.994-09:00You mean we're "SPESHUL"?
As in:
1....You mean we're "SPESHUL"?<br />As in:<br /><br />1. Speshul(Adjective): special<br />2. In Chaldean Numerology The numerical value of speshul in Chaldean Numerology is: 6<br />3. In Pythagorean Numerology The numerical value of speshul in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1<br /><br />Or are we just, erm, unusual in our passions?<br /><br />Think I'll get a tee printed with a Rollei and 'I'm Speshul' on the front, with 1 and 6 on the back . . . Herman Sheephousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16187303211437458425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635427135333425336.post-53446221242464577102018-03-08T12:27:37.289-09:002018-03-08T12:27:37.289-09:00I suffer from a very specific photographic desensi...I suffer from a very specific photographic desensitisation. I still get moved by old film-based photos, especially prints, and new stuff produced the same way. I just happen to be all out of fecks when it comes to anything digital - and I don't care how good it might be. Irrational? Moi?<br /><br />I totally get your point about photography becoming devalued by sheer weight of numbers but we can at least hold our heads up, have a good, long scratch under our hair shirts and declare, "but we're film photographers and we deserve to be noticed". Imagine being a digital image maker and having nothing to distinguish you from the masses of other similar-minded folk except maybe a higher pixel count.Bruce Robbinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13888340033630703603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635427135333425336.post-39121674937147481042018-03-08T01:06:42.197-09:002018-03-08T01:06:42.197-09:00The iphone backdoor thing came from US Security Ag...The iphone backdoor thing came from US Security Agencies!<br />Happy Days - I am back to my Trimphone and Whitehall 210Herman Sheephousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16187303211437458425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635427135333425336.post-17343026504583256832018-03-07T10:33:15.034-09:002018-03-07T10:33:15.034-09:00Probably someone entirely trustworthy, like the US...Probably someone entirely trustworthy, like the US Government. Perhaps they are waiting until Vlad gives them their instructions. There's a very clever outfit in Israel who claims to be able to get into your iPhone for a substantial fee. They might be the first.<br />Enough politics, perhaps.DavidMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635427135333425336.post-2993587583066583142018-03-06T09:33:31.471-09:002018-03-06T09:33:31.471-09:00Oh yeah, just read Krebs On Security - someone, so...Oh yeah, just read Krebs On Security - someone, soon, will find a way to get into these places, either physically or non-physically, then the fun will start . . . Herman Sheephousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16187303211437458425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635427135333425336.post-64586868546037875652018-03-06T07:47:42.864-09:002018-03-06T07:47:42.864-09:00We are beaming thoughts into your head. Now that w...We are beaming thoughts into your head. Now that we know that you know and you know that we know, we shall have to do something. When you see bright lights in the sky and hear strange humming noises, you will forget. <br /><br />I didn't know about Field-Marshal Lamm-Kennele's history of craft-based genuflection. A more complex man than we might have imagined.<br /><br />A word of optimism. Most of it is held in air-conditioned industrial buildings in the cheaper parts of Arizona, and similar places. It can't get out unless you invoke it and it's probably on somebody's list of second-strike targets. Now there's a cheerful thought for a sunny tea time.DavidMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635427135333425336.post-41856164126696005882018-03-06T07:28:45.265-09:002018-03-06T07:28:45.265-09:00"in fact I had to check once or twice as I th..."in fact I had to check once or twice as I thought someone had beaming rays into my home and extracting my thoughts with the apparatus."<br /><br />Damn, rumbled! you see little do people realise that FB is changing society one mind at a time, but given the exponential increase in human population, the task is nowadays impossible . . so it goes.<br /><br />Anyway Shooter- thanks for the comments, and you are right, the majority of it is on screen and sadly not being passed around as well-thumbed prints covered in nose grease, coffee stains and micro-crumbs from laughter-coughed biscuits. I think we really are losing something of cultural importance, hence my feelings to just keep on printing and physicalising the unreal view from the viewfinder in negatives!<br /><br />Thanks again for commenting - they're always welcome. Herman Sheephousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16187303211437458425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635427135333425336.post-63741906363085316902018-03-06T07:20:24.840-09:002018-03-06T07:20:24.840-09:00Well I for one agree entirely with this post, in f...Well I for one agree entirely with this post, in fact I had to check once or twice as I thought someone had beaming rays into my home and extracting my thoughts with the apparatus.<br /><br />I feel you have summed up all of the relevant points and like you it saddens me also. The trouble is that equipment now, mobiles through to the mutts nuts top of the line bad ass babies are so good at capturing images well you could have a monkey take em and not notice, (already done and he filed a law suit over copyright) well his associates did. That i must admit had me howling for days. <br /><br />The best of all of course is that most if not all ends up on the sink hole aka www. and in spite of folks desperate dash for the biggest sensor and associated costs what is visible can't be differentiated from that shot with a mobile. <br />shooterhttp://www.serialphotographer.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635427135333425336.post-62265316278450499222018-03-06T04:40:29.972-09:002018-03-06T04:40:29.972-09:00You've got it bang-on - it is a vast universe ...You've got it bang-on - it is a vast universe of uninteresting tables with some occasional a la carte stuff here and there.<br /><br />I acolyted for a number of years before a mouseman altar - it was as solid as a rock!<br /><br />Not read David Pye - will look into it.Herman Sheephousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16187303211437458425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635427135333425336.post-25651217868187650182018-03-06T04:33:48.069-09:002018-03-06T04:33:48.069-09:00I must be missing something. I've never looked...I must be missing something. I've never looked at Instagram. It sounds like listening to other people's conversation in restaurants. I think I'll carry on with missing it. <br />Nothing wrong with craft. A great deal of satisfaction can be gained from it. On the other hand, it's no guarantee of other qualities, such as creativity.( which we seem to be discussing. )<br />I once knew someone who had a Robert Thompson dining table. (He's known as the Mouse Man.) Enormous investment in hand work and skill to adze a table top, but all the plates wobbled.<br />Have you read David Pye on The Nature and Art of Workmanship? You might like it. Sadly, he is no longer with us. I still regret not buying one of his pieces.DavidMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635427135333425336.post-68767414395509226862018-03-06T02:23:26.884-09:002018-03-06T02:23:26.884-09:00If a 'crap filter' were invented, then tha...If a 'crap filter' were invented, then that could be a great thing. Having sold music for 30+ years I can tell you that there is more music released on a weekly basis than anyone can ever imagine, all in the name of unbridled creativity, and you know what, a vast amount of it really isn't very good at all, but without it the whole thing would founder, and who has the right to deny people their dreams?<br />It is a slightly different point because, whereas in music there is an endpoint - the production of song, or piece, or swathe of noise, it is generated for some purpose, whether it is to feed the desires of creator or listener. With Instagraming (?) etc a vast amount of it is produced for no purpose save to justify one's position in the world. Prove you are a real live living person, document the whole thing with your phone . . people might even 'like' you . . . And that, I feel, is bedding down like a layer of pixelised sediment, upon the gems of documentation or pure picture making that are out there. <br />Even if you started today and worked at it all day, every day, sifting the wheat from the chaff would be an impossible task rather like some of the old 'impossible' British folk tales. <br />I dislike that. I really do. But that is just me - fairly set in my ways and probably why I value the craft/time-intensive aspect of the trad photography I do. <br />It is probably for naught, but it is my version of naught . . Herman Sheephousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16187303211437458425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635427135333425336.post-48325500156840174422018-03-06T02:06:33.701-09:002018-03-06T02:06:33.701-09:00Well now. Time for a discussion of creativity. Cre...Well now. Time for a discussion of creativity. Creative people don't have better ideas than anyone else. They have more ideas of all kinds and then throw away the bad ones. What's left is a very, very small number of good ones. More is better, because it leads to a few good things being sifted out. Good ideas inspire yet more bad ideas being produced and the process goes on.<br />What's different now is that instead of the traditional shoe-box under the bed, everything, rubbish, average, competent and genius is out there for inspection. <br />This supports your observation: that we are being swamped, but amidst all the chaff there must be some wheat. We don't need less chaff; we need a better sieve. <br />And of course, our ideas of what the "good stuff" might be are constantly changing. I don't want to raise ad hominem arguments but it's just possible that both you and I are a little behind the times. Naturally, I disagree on your behalf.DavidMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635427135333425336.post-74207049038283350462018-03-05T07:26:14.239-09:002018-03-05T07:26:14.239-09:00No, we shouldn't, but don't you think the ...No, we shouldn't, but don't you think the broad swathe of trees just leads to a jungle blindness? It's almost impossible to pick out a lone tree that meant something to you. You might remember where it was planted, but seeds have germinated and grown exponentially and the place is no longer accessible.Herman Sheephousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16187303211437458425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635427135333425336.post-79584731764951976942018-03-05T07:20:15.373-09:002018-03-05T07:20:15.373-09:00Can't think of any good reason why you shouldn...Can't think of any good reason why you shouldn't do that.<br />But should we despise a tree because there are forests?DavidMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635427135333425336.post-48632972297213921252018-03-05T01:21:05.891-09:002018-03-05T01:21:05.891-09:00No problems Grumps! Everyone's entitled to som...No problems Grumps! Everyone's entitled to some old time grumping including me.<br />To distill it all, really, all I am trying to say is (I think) that visual imagery is becoming so commonplace as to be virtually dull. Even the good stuff (that might have been of note at one time) is in danger of becoming 'wallpaper' . . rendered that way by the tidal waves of the 'imaging' of EVERYTHING that is being posted online day-in, day-out.<br />We can't go back either, and I guess that's why I've stuck my pole in the ground here and have decided that I want to just keep on producing physycal prints. Something that someone will have to physically chuck away and say <br />"Why the hell did he waste all his time producing this old shite?"Herman Sheephousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16187303211437458425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635427135333425336.post-16753416432212415402018-03-05T01:00:29.333-09:002018-03-05T01:00:29.333-09:00So here we are, using cameras made by somebody els...So here we are, using cameras made by somebody else and lenses made by somebody else, with film made by somebody else, processing in chemicals made by somebody else, printing on on an enlarger (MBSE) on paper... <br />...and complaining that some other people have it too easy.<br />Why not get back to Bitumen of Judea and lavender oil? Then you have a right to complain.<br />(Incidentally, the late Terry King determined that any bitumen and any solvent oil will do, so no need to trawl the internet for exotic ingredients.)<br /><br />As you can see from this, I woke up grumpy this morning.DavidMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635427135333425336.post-41409500249050241212018-03-02T06:01:48.554-09:002018-03-02T06:01:48.554-09:00Hi Julian - and thanks as always for the thoughtfu...Hi Julian - and thanks as always for the thoughtful comments. You should qualify (with regard to what we are doing digitally) with the fact that that is your profession - so you know what you are talking about . . love the idea of a digital snail trail - very true, over every wall and plantpot!<br /><br />I suppose Instagram et al is doing what slideshows did, but like I said, it is ephemeral - we need to get printing and pointing and laughing (I'm sure the psych-police will love that bit). It kind of reminds me in the Genesis song Supper's Ready:<br /><br />" Wandering in the chaos the battle has left<br />We climb up the mountain of human flesh<br />To a plateau of green grass, and green trees full of life<br />A young figure sits still by a pool<br />He's been stamped "Human Bacon" by some butchery tool<br />He is you<br />Social Security took care of this lad<br />We watch in reverence, as Narcissus is turned to a flower<br />A flower? "<br /><br />All the wee flowers out there damaging their Mental Elf, caught up in the now. Should get 'em all diggin' 'oles. or trying to find food, that would quell the self-obsession-upsurge in a trice!<br /><br />Keep on truckin' Julian . . and remember, Graded Grains Make Finer Flour!Herman Sheephousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16187303211437458425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8635427135333425336.post-70444201948057453982018-03-02T05:47:27.219-09:002018-03-02T05:47:27.219-09:00Greetings to the great Sheephouse from the sole su...Greetings to the great Sheephouse from the sole surviving inmate of the celebrated Baa-house.<br /><br />What can I say. You saw the nail. And hit it. Right on the head.<br /><br />It is all a big dumming (sic) down isn't it. I wonder if that's not been the cry through the ages, except that now it's happening at a breakneck speed. And though anyone can do anything, that thing that they do isn't necessarily anything that will last.<br /><br />The longevity or otherwise of digital images is an interesting question. In some ways it seems that like the cockroach, it's impossible to eradicate the trails of digital effluvia that each of us creates, snail like as we slime our way through that illusory realm, cyberspace. But then again who remembers mySpace? Is it sill there? How about Compuserve, AOL, Yahoo?<br /><br />But unless you keep digital data continually backed up and moved onto the latest media, there's a danger that the machinery necessary for its retrieval will no longer work or that the media itself has flaked and crumbled. If it does work, will your device's cable find itself unable to connect to the latest USB thingy?<br /><br />Phunnily (sic) enough, it seems that silver has anti-microbial tendencies which may ensure that sliver negatives and prints will outlast both you, me and ink-jet so-called prints. I am fortunate in that I have a few thousand glass plates that my old man collected - and those that have been kept in semi-decent conditions, dry and not too light, well, a print made from them can hold up to anything modern.<br /><br />What you say about those snaps with the terrible wallpaper, migraine inducing carpets and marvellous orange polyester leisurewear: who'd have thought that part of the reason they are now interesting is the record of the <strong>times</strong> as well as the people?<br /><br />Rest ashured (sic) that I, in my small corner, am doing my bit to capture photons from the odd sixtieth of a second here and there and apply them to silver halides suspended in a gelatine emulsion.<br /><br />And remember, You CAN be sure of Shell.Julianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05474089108788967111noreply@blogger.com