tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post3178305870149662839..comments2024-03-01T00:28:37.354-08:00Comments on B: Signs and RelicsBlake Andrewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07187987264904729243noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-76824712665985294132010-11-22T18:42:11.954-08:002010-11-22T18:42:11.954-08:00These marks are fun but fleeting. There is no way ...These marks are fun but fleeting. There is no way to fix them and by December they're gone. But I think they hint at the essential power of photographs.Softmod Wiihttp://www.wiihomebrewguide.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-31954803515192696832010-09-27T09:27:50.676-07:002010-09-27T09:27:50.676-07:00very nice shots and new ideavery nice shots and new ideaايفونhttp://www.tech-wd.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935046131385109105.post-47008608274882858192009-08-08T13:23:09.181-07:002009-08-08T13:23:09.181-07:00Great article and even better last sentence. Being...Great article and even better last sentence. Being a computer programmer sitting in front of the computer most of my time I usually don't have much of a tan line anywhere in my body.<br />My wife and I, though, just came back from a 20 days long cross country road trip from NY to SF and when I looked at my arms, my feet and my face I had suntan lines all over my body. Your words are so true...<br /><br />Not only about suntan but also about leaving a trace, a sign... I think this is why digital photography doesn't really satisfy me as much as film used to... Everything is so volatile when it gets to digital and it's so easy to disappear. How many time we have heard someone say "OMG! I lost everything! All my data is gone!" Granted that you could be losing negatives and prints as well, like it happened to my father due to floods many years ago, everything that is digital doesn't really exist, does it? It's just a faint magnetic trace on a disk somewhere, a trace that no human can see nor read directly unless there is a computer there ready to interpret those data for us...<br /><br />Just a couple of days ago we were at the office and we were talking about how little things last in the digital era. A friend who is a designer was saying that most of his web design work he has done in the past 10 years is already gone, not online anymore, replaced by some other designer's work. And even the original files sit in some external hard drive that no one has turned on for years.<br /><br />Your words make me very nostalgic of the feel of having something in your hands, of leaving that trace on that pressure plate. In the digital world not even cameras would ever last long enough to leave a trace.<br /><br />The only trace I am apparently leaving is a consumed keyboard and a mouse that has its buttons shinier where I touch them with my fingers when I click... how sad is my life...Francesco Gallarottihttp://www.gallarotti.netnoreply@blogger.com