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Subject: Re: [Leica] Jonathan's PAW week three
From: David Degner <ddegner@morris.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 16:17:16 -0500
References: <OE74hrxVI9l2XglOZ0p00004716@hotmail.com> <3C4D074D.66CC2660@markrabiner.com> <OE37Bwg9MvuHdPtnhvC00003fef@hotmail.com>

Don't write this stuff!!!

It makes me laugh out hysterically at work and people start looking at me 
wierd.

At 12:34 AM 1/22/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>Jonathan wrote:
> >
> > I
> > Mark,
> >
> > I'm not sure what you mean.
> > The large size is 800 pixels tall, is THAT one too small?
> > Or is the midget too small?
> > If so what size do you think is appropriate?
>
>I came out of the Bauhaus moment in a sense.
>My adviser in College was Myron Kozman who came right out of the Chicago
>branch of the Bauhaus movement.
>Studied right under Maholy Nagy. He'd quote him all the time. Tell us
>stories about him
>He would say you sign your work your signature was just as much part of
>the work of art as any other brush stroke in it. Also the Frame.
>
>Your photo.net Gallery serves a great purpose but its ever so consistent
>and involved feedback interface for me gets very intrusive.
>
>Among other things You click on a picture and under it every time is
>"Small | Medium | Large."
>Doesn't matter what the picture, who does it. It is the nature of the
>very consistent communal interface.
>
>Give me a bad homemade website any day.
>
>This of course has nothing to do with your photos which are of course 
>excellent.
>I respond sometimes to the package. The handling. The graphics. The
>headings. The apparent subtitles. Trivialities.
>
>We hope and think and assume we can ignore such trivialities but the
>fact is we can not. Every figure has it's ground. Context.
>And context is everything.
>
>Small | Medium | Large becomes the caption of the picture. Just like it
>is on every picture on the site; done by everybody.
>
>In this case it seemed for a moment ridiculously appropriate. It was a
>comment, a caption. A cry out by the very subject itself.
>Wouldn't it be nice if we could click on a box and make ourselves or our
>world Small | Medium | or  Large?
>
>Very Alice and Wonderland I guess!
>
>
>To say i don't have empathy for the small Chinese man is to not know me
>and sell me short.    Oops!
>
>
>Mark Rabiner
>Portland, Oregon USA
>http://www.markrabiner.com
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