To help preserve her works, Cindy Sherman is offering to destroy and reprint old photographs

pentaxuser · Jul 5, 2025

DREW WILEY said:
Look at how much is now stored on the "Cloud". What do you think one of the prime targets of a major war would be, if not all kinds of critical E-infrastructure?

Clouds may be best avoided depending on how much radioactive material they are carrying

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Alan Edward Klein · Jul 5, 2025

DREW WILEY said:
Defacing rocks and trees is how dumb jerks and punk vandals try to get remembered, Alan. Now they prefer spray paint.

I visited the Temple of Dendur in the Egyptian Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. Inside, there are numerous surnames chipped into the marble walls with dates. I doubt if our photos will be remembered in 200 years. (not my photos below)

DREW WILEY · Jul 5, 2025

There were also laborers in Egyptian tombs and temples, way back at that time, who managed to sneak in some derisive chiseled cartoons of their overlords before things got sealed up.

pentaxuser · Jul 5, 2025

Alan Edward Klein said:
I visited the Temple of Dendur in the Egyptian Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. Inside, there are numerous surnames chipped into the marble walls with dates. I doubt if our photos will be remembered in 200 years. (not my photos below)

Top pic conveys the coolness(i.e. temp) and restfulness of the place very well, Alan

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warden · Jul 5, 2025

Don_ih said:
Well, that was rather .... unenlightening? Not exactly asking the hard questions. He forgot to ask what her favourite colour is and whether she takes milk in her coffee.

Yeah, I read that article a few days ago and I won’t get that time back.

ic-racer · Jul 5, 2025

You it guys make me laugh. So how are you accessing the 5” floppy data? What software and hardware?
Yes, I still have about 1/2 of my digital archive but can only access about 1/10 of it due to obsolete hardware and software.

koraks · Jul 5, 2025

There's a saying we were sometimes told when I went to university: "a fool with a tool is still a fool."

Which reminds me of an anecdote, which I suspect is apocryphal, but hey, never waste a good story. Story goes that my great-aunt when she got her first freezer (then a bit of a novelty), she was mightily disappointed with it. She was told that the freezer would keep foodstuffs from going bad. So she stuck a cake into it, but when she got out of it, she complained that "it was just as stale as when I put it in there; it hadn't improved one bit!"

Alan Edward Klein · Jul 6, 2025

pentaxuser said:
Top pic conveys the coolness(i.e. temp) and restfulness of the place very well, Alan

pentaxuser

I had a "white light" experience the first time I was there. At the time I ran a service company and was asked to meet a mechanical contractor to repair their temperature control system handling the Egyptian wing. I arrived early, before the museum opened to the public, and was told to wait in the Wing until others arrived. So, I was alone. When I walked into the space, I stood in front of this moat. Suddenly, I felt this cool breeze, and I felt like I was transported back 4000 years in time. It was one of the weirdest experiences. Afterwards, I walked into the temple building itself, the one in the back of the picture although there was a sign that said No Entry. But I was alone and couldn’t resist. That's when I discover the names scrawled on the inside walls. Then a guard showed up and shooed me away. If you ever get to NYC, go to the Met Museum and see this wing. The whole museum is great, but this part is special.

Alan Edward Klein · Jul 6, 2025

ic-racer said:
You it guys make me laugh. So how are you accessing the 5” floppy data? What software and hardware?
Yes, I still have about 1/2 of my digital archive but can only access about 1/10 of it due to obsolete hardware and software.

Whenever I upgrade my desktop, I include a DVD reader/writer since I have so much stored data on disks. However, I now back up on a pluig and play HDD and memory cards.

Alan Edward Klein · Jul 6, 2025

koraks said:
There's a saying we were sometimes told when I went to university: "a fool with a tool is still a fool."

Which reminds me of an anecdote, which I suspect is apocryphal, but hey, never waste a good story. Story goes that my great-aunt when she got her first freezer (then a bit of a novelty), she was mightily disappointed with it. She was told that the freezer would keep foodstuffs from going bad. So she stuck a cake into it, but when she got out of it, she complained that "it was just as stale as when I put it in there; it hadn't improved one bit!"

You ought to enjoy this take from Seinfeld comedy show where Elaine eats a piece of cake from the royal British wedding in 1939 stored in her boss's freezer

To help preserve her works, Cindy Sherman is offering to destroy and reprint old photographs

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