Quotes I believe in....
Mar 30, 2024 20:23:45 #
The movie "Kodachrome" on Netflix is a movie I enjoy. The character Ben in this movie makes a couple of comments that I really believe. I was a photographer making a living shooting only film for 25 years. After that I shot digital for about 10 years. I feel more comfortable and confident shooting film. Most of my years shooting film was with medium format, Hasselblad. That is just me.
Here are the quotes from the movie:
"We're all so frightened by time, the way it moves on and the way things disappear. That's why we're photographers. We're preservationists by nature. We take pictures to stop time, to commit moments to eternity. Human nature made tangible."
"People are taking more pictures now than ever before, billions of them, but there are no slides, no prints. Just data. Electronic dust. Years from now when they dig us up there won't be any pictures to find, no record of who we were or how we lived."
Thank you for your time, have a great week.
Here are the quotes from the movie:
"We're all so frightened by time, the way it moves on and the way things disappear. That's why we're photographers. We're preservationists by nature. We take pictures to stop time, to commit moments to eternity. Human nature made tangible."
"People are taking more pictures now than ever before, billions of them, but there are no slides, no prints. Just data. Electronic dust. Years from now when they dig us up there won't be any pictures to find, no record of who we were or how we lived."
Thank you for your time, have a great week.
Mar 30, 2024 20:36:37 #
Mar 30, 2024 20:41:44 #
But the digital data is something you can preserve forever not the slides nor the prints.
You can write the data down on a piece of paper (a big piece of paper) and then the image can be reconstructed exactly as it is.
You can write the data down on a piece of paper (a big piece of paper) and then the image can be reconstructed exactly as it is.
Mar 30, 2024 20:53:49 #
BebuLamar wrote:
But the digital data is something you can preserve forever not the slides nor the prints.
You can write the data down on a piece of paper (a big piece of paper) and then the image can be reconstructed exactly as it is.
You can write the data down on a piece of paper (a big piece of paper) and then the image can be reconstructed exactly as it is.
Write it down on paper in HEX?
How would they know how to convert the data to an image?
If technology remains, everything would have migrated along, including the images,
going on the premise that society has migrated (along with the technology), and not restarted.
Mar 30, 2024 21:54:00 #
Longshadow wrote:
The second one is kinda heavy and true...
And you want to believe that prints will last a loooong time like stone statues? Or frozen in time by a bog or a volcano?
Both are quotes are platitudes that will be replaced quickly with other meaningless ideas.
Oh, we stop time? Really? The first observation is that where ever we are, we always see the past, never the present. If it is not evident in our limited scale. Change the scale and it is abundantly clear that this all we see is long gone. The second, many do not try to stop time but are simply witnesses of events or try to sell their vision (photographs).
Mar 30, 2024 22:01:36 #
I've forgotten that movie. I will have to watch again.
I think statement 2 is very true.
Dodie
I think statement 2 is very true.
Dodie
Mar 30, 2024 22:15:15 #
All you have to do is be an empty nester moving from your big house to something smaller — a different house, an apartment, or senior living — and all the slides will go away and the prints will be culled to a favorite few.
That digital dust can be saved in several efficient and convenient ways with no need for slide trays and projectors and screens or big fat photo albums.
That digital dust can be saved in several efficient and convenient ways with no need for slide trays and projectors and screens or big fat photo albums.
Mar 30, 2024 22:26:14 #
Longshadow wrote:
The second one is kinda heavy and true...
Maybe we should have an intternational team effort to produce pot shards.
Mar 30, 2024 22:29:48 #
Longshadow wrote:
Write it down on paper in HEX?
How would they know how to convert the data to an image?
If technology remains, everything would have migrated along, including the images,
going on the premise that society has migrated (along with the technology), and not restarted.
How would they know how to convert the data to an image?
If technology remains, everything would have migrated along, including the images,
going on the premise that society has migrated (along with the technology), and not restarted.
HEX is OK but I would prefer it in binary. Also write down the file specs. The thing is anyone cares to see your pictures.
Mar 30, 2024 23:13:39 #
exposeu wrote:
The movie "Kodachrome" on Netflix is a m... (show quote)
Two quotes that are all anyone really needs:
"80% of success is just showing up"
- Woody Allen
"I am a jelly donut"
- Pres. John Kennedy
That is all.
Mar 31, 2024 05:20:44 #
Mar 31, 2024 07:18:31 #
Rongnongno wrote:
And you want to believe that prints will last a loooong time like stone statues? Or frozen in time by a bog or a volcano?
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I never said that, so why would you put those words in my mouth?
The original post is so wide open to what might transpire between now and then, how that point in time is achieved.
ie. Libraries lost? or kept?
There are too many scenarios of how we could arrive at that future point.......
Mar 31, 2024 08:36:53 #
billnikon
Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont
exposeu wrote:
The movie "Kodachrome" on Netflix is a m... (show quote)
They'll have to pry my flash drives from my cold dead hands.
Mar 31, 2024 08:38:30 #
billnikon
Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont
exposeu wrote:
The movie "Kodachrome" on Netflix is a m... (show quote)
Negatives will last how long buried in atomic waste?
Flash drives, external drives, hard drives will last how long buried in atomic waste?
How the F caries.
Mar 31, 2024 09:12:02 #
Juy
Loc: Delaware
I like the quotes, not that they are my thoughts but a vision someone had.
Boy though reading the comments, there seems to be alot of unhappy people that need to find fault in others to justify themselves, ME included.
Can't we just except we all may have different vantage points.
Boy though reading the comments, there seems to be alot of unhappy people that need to find fault in others to justify themselves, ME included.
Can't we just except we all may have different vantage points.
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