Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 3/1/02 at 1:43 PM, bdcolen@earthlink.net (B. D. Colen) thoughtfully wrote: > > "Well, I have this friend who works at a Starbucks, and she asked her > manager, and he said it would be okay for me to shoot there. But do you > think it will be interesting enough?" > > !!!!!@#@ > > Granted, I'll believe it when I see it - and told him to comb his hair, tuck > in his shirt, and get his butt over to the Starbucks in question and make > SURE that the manager says 'okay' to him being there from opening to > closing. > I hope it works out for him. I hope he goes and just hangs out for a day WITHOUT the camera before he goes back to shoot just so he figures out how to see the space and where we might work. His thought that it might not be interesting enough is, in itself, fascinating. I have this theory about frogs and ponds. In the past, before mass communication, it was possible for a person of normal talents to be a relatively big frog in a small, local, pond. A good pianist was appreciated, a goof vocalist, a good photographer. Today the standards are set world-wide and we're deluged by art which dwarfs ordinary talents. And for the most part we judge what we see by those standards. So the pond has gotten VERY big and you have to be a REALLY big frog to make a noticable splash. Except, of course, we can form communities, like this LUG, and go back to the smaller pond - holding off our judgements about what is good that are framed over on the ocean-sized pond next door. Which is one of the real benefits of the internet in constructing communities. Thanks for sharing BD, I wish your student the best and hope he will be excited about what he sees and his work is published for us to view. Adam - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html