Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html