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Aw c'mon, man!
Yes! Speed up your workflow, dammit!
I'm sorry, but that's mistaken...
The ongoing digitalization of our various cultures demands that you cease practicing such an inefficient form of photography as your hobby. The digital ethos further demands that your hobbies be practiced with the utmost in speed and with the highest possible MTBF metric. It's all about quantity produced per unit time as a measure of return on investment in leisure.
You need to start thinking less about dawdling along with film and start thinking more about going hypersonic with digital, mister. Because if you don't change your ways real quick now you risk being "left behind" in the revolution. And nobody wants to end up trailing the herd. We all know what the lurking wolf packs think of that.
Besides, the faster you can get your practice of those time-consuming hobbies successfully completed and out of the way, the quicker you can return to your real job and resume doing something productive for those 12 hours each day, which is where we all really belong in the first place.I'm reminded of a long ago interview with no less a digital evangelical than Bill Gates himself. When asked what he thought of the (at the time) hit TV show Friends, his simple response, delivered with a coldly dismissive sneer, was...
"Don't those people ever work?"
Ken
I heard that sucks...
let me try ..Yes demands, for there is no other way to put it, there is no life in it, no space, only black and white, no shade, no depth, only the amassing of an external view, with no place for shades of grey. Of having the disconnection from efficiency of time, by going into the woods, and before shooting, taking a wakening quiet moment, to reflect on what is there, to be shot, seeking to be found, for ...
Ah yes the quality of film, is beyond the quantity of one, divided by one, equaling one. Made without instant gratification, causing a timelessness, in perceiving deeper than the frame and reference of creativity, but into the dissemblance of our perceptions into the root of our breath.
Ah, yes, to be left behind, like a leaf in the ebby of the stream, rotating in circles, quietly, giving reference to the rapids that loudly splash against the resistance that forms its gushing torrent to be free, because:
Ah yes, the deep plaintive cry of the pack. On both sides of the fence, those in the center of the stream and those on the edge nearer the bank where the lilies in the field grow and want not. Knowing that the view that it creates, by looking in a place and space never seen before, can rejuvenate.. a weary heart, who to often has learned that:
Ah, yes the learning on how it is and was to be productive, and what it really is; can be perceived as ... a mirror.
Given so you can see through the fragile glass and be reflected by its silver lining, to reveal the reference which conceals that which holds it together, on the walls of our lives! The frame of our existence, beyond film or digital, that makes and forms our love, lives and living.
But when one understands, to works less is to be more 'productive' in ones purpose, that of shooting an image! For then the intangible can take place. The intuitive arrives in what was once busy productive head space, and often, those who shoot film, find this easier to 'fall into' this trace. For it has to be seen first with the internal, for there is no instant gratification to see what you did right or wrong. So the right and wrong, get less attention, for in film, you can't instantly go there. For shooting, once one learns how to use a camera, digital or film, becomes secondary, and the internal, becomes primary. The camera becomes an extension of the character who is using it. An image to behold, not as an accomplishment, but like a stream flowing through its courses, to the sea that awaits it way beyond the horizons that cannot be seen or pictured.
Its all a learning curve... but often, in digital, it is so fast, like checking off an item on a list, not to be realized again. But rather like moving so fast forward, looking for another item to be marked off, as if it where a victory in competition against time.
Rather than perceiving completely the perception and perspective of what is being visibly marked and developed by the motion of the hand, mind and body, in a cycle that forms a harmony in and with time!
So that it does not become work.. or accomplishment, but like a ride on the fragrance of the wind.
Most likely, this can happen in digital as well as film, but for me, it only works in, for, and with the process of film.
HAhaha... hows that, for another persons thought of moonlight...
No haven't smoked weed (or drank liquor) in over 30 years... but like coffee, but never drank it in Maui.
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