Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It makes me wonder is knowledge its self has become disposable. Chris On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 4:20 PM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com>wrote: > > On Oct 10, 2011, at 6:04 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > > > Nice--you document a personal and technological transition at the same > time, with a moving touch of melancholy. > > > On 10 Oct, 2011, at 22:19 , George Lottermoser wrote: > > > >> <http://www.imagist.com/blog/?p=5737> > > It totally amazes me that I: > hand set metal and wooden type in college > hand lettered and inked logos > illustrated with airbrush, inks and watercolors > shot 16 mm movie films to 12x20 sheet film > edited movies with a razor blade > maintained a darkroom since 1962 > emulsion stripped and retouched 8x10 Ektachromes > then drum scans of all films > working through 13 versions of Photoshop and Illustrator > from PageMaker to InDesign CS5 > from Mac SE's to Mac Pro's > shot digital video - editing in FinalCut Pro > watched the typographers and film strippers lose their jobs > etc etc > > all in one "short" life time. > > The generation that came before me > Used more or less the same gear they started with > for their entire career. > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george at imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Chris Saganich www.imagebrooklyn.com