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| so what? [message #978 is a reply to message #119 ] |
Fri, 27 May 2005 17:19   |
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05:31pm Sep 15, 2004
Yeah yeah Pedro and thanks for the lesson HOWEVER it's not so much the PERCEPTIONS I'm interested in BUT being able to COMMUNICATE something, and make something of the world RECOGNIZABLE for the 1st time. N'est pas??
Those varied perceptions of you at your desk certainly dont fire my imagination..I want something that TALKS! not something that is merely different. Give me QUALITY not INNOVATION.I want to see something NEW yep, tho not something STERILE and technicallty innovative. PEOPLE make images, no matter what technology..you can "stich" to the cows come home, BUT if the image doesnt TALK from the heart it's just technical "wankery"....
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| Point not taken [message #979 is a reply to message #119 ] |
Fri, 27 May 2005 17:30 |
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12:34pm Oct 22, 2004
I wasn't struck by how the plane story acted as a good lead in to an article on perception, particularly with an inane picture of the clouds as the lead photo.
Now, on the issue of perceptions--definitely an interesting topic, and I think you raised some valid and interesting points. However, most of Deepak Chopra's thoughts are not new, but are points made by the British Empiricist school of the 18th century--like Berkley. Therefore, when he made a point about our perceptions being frozen in the an old (Newtonian) world view--he needs to read some more history. It doesn't take quantum mechanics to get that point. Certainly quantum mechanics brings new--and much stranger--perceptions.
Finally, photographically, I agree with the previous comments about using PS to stitch. I didn't think the photos were all that illustrative or even very good from a photographic standpoint. It was just a bunch of manipulations--like looking at what a new toy can do. Why not show photographic equivalents of Escher or Dali--rather than snapshots slapped together and bent around? Just doing a Google on "surreal photography" brought me loads of examples.
Of course, the issue of perception is important, particularly for manipulations, because photography can just start to look like graphics art projects.
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