Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello LEICA-USER, I thought it was you, but somehow, your email client does not put your name in, and you forgot to sign. I do not have a psychiatrist, having married a Nurse with a masters in Psych, I find it not a problem. She helps me through the day. Do they let you have access to the computer all day in your hospital, or do you have certain hours that you can log on? SonC Tuesday, October 28, 2003, 6:45:22 PM, you wrote: LUic> OK for the last time My name is Ruddy Roye. I live in Brooklyn, I am a freelance LUic> photographer who buys equipment from Rich Pinto, and LUic> Tamarkin. On a good day you LUic> can find me at tamarkin hanging out. LUic> Moving on. LUic> The next person who make the reference that I am hiding LUic> when I post my emails, just meet LUic> me for lunch anywhere in the city and i will tell them exactly what I meant. LUic> Next. LUic> Sony, I cannot tell if you are shallow, maybe that is LUic> something you might want to take up LUic> with your psychiatrist, but my position on the topic is this: LUic> I was responding to an email where I felt someone was LUic> laying it on heavy on Anne. LUic> Personally she is not my favourite photog, but I felt LUic> that we as photogs should allow other LUic> people's work to bloom, let them breathe, and if we have LUic> balls between our legs, we can LUic> put ours out there to be criticised if that is why we do LUic> our pictures. I am not saying we LUic> should love or hate ANNE. I am saying we should look, hate or like, we should LUic> acknowledge the fact that she is or has done WORK...as LUic> lame as we might think the shit LUic> is...it is still WORK...For instance, I do not know your LUic> work Sony...I would like to see it in a LUic> book somewhere so that I might l;ook, like, or hate... LUic> Now if you feel like throwing your leicas in a river, I LUic> can send you my address offline and I LUic> will throw it in the river for you. All the other time LUic> wasters, or leica wasters, do you have LUic> anything else to say? >> Hello LEICA-USER, >> >> Amazing Post. From my point of view, stealth posting, no Name. Also hard >> to figure out what the hell you are saying from your stealth position. >> I must be too damn shallow to understand you. Are you saying everyone >> should love Annie? Or do exactly what she does? Or throw our Leicas >> in the river? 'fes up! tell us what the hell you really mean. >> >> SonC >> >> >> >> Monday, October 27, 2003, 7:39:21 PM, you wrote: >> >> >> > The truth is.... >> LUic> she did it. Neither one of us did what she did...oh >> LUic> yes..maybe, quite a number of us could >> LUic> have....but we did not...she did and so I think we should >> LUic> APPRECIATE instead of HATE. >> LUic> She might not have taken pics that WE do but she did hers >> LUic> her own way and the world is a >> LUic> much different place because of them. We should not judge why and how LUic> people's sanity >> LUic> is maintained. We will never know how many people left >> LUic> an AL exhibit feeling better >> LUic> about themselves...so...we should just try to take OUR >> LUic> work to a place where we can also >> LUic> be criticised, loved, hated, praised, dragged down on a >> LUic> user group..all that good stuff...I >> LUic> hope we want to change the world with our pics. That is >> LUic> why we all went into photography >> LUic> I hope. "because we wanted the world to be a better >> LUic> place." For all the other folks who >> LUic> bought these expensive pieces of machines to put their >> LUic> d---s into..they can will it to >> LUic> themselves and have their kins put it into their caskets for eternity. >> >> >> >> > >> >> Annie Leibovitz was covering the Rock Scene with 35m Nikons and pushed >> >> Tri X long ago. >> >> Other's were doing a better job but she did ok. >> >> When she started doing the squares her shots got more interesting. More square. >> >> You know. The formal thing! Concepts! >> >> And she became more famous than most her subjects. >> >> >> >> I like the shot of the great Emma Thompson wrapped up in toilet paper. >> >> I think it is a joke on Annie and a triumph for Emmas long standing >> >> dream of her definition of stupid fame. >> >> I think for decades she dreamed of making an ass of A.L. by getting shot >> >> by her wrapped in toilet paper. I bet it sounded good as an ongoing >> >> joke. TP 'd as they say and this is the season for it. >> >> That wish finally came true. >> >> Some get a hand print in the sidewalk. >> >> Emma got TP'd by Annie. >> >> >> >> Some would wish to wear an asbestos suit and light themselves on fire >> >> and strike and interesting pose for Annie. Maybe dive off a building >> >> into a pool. I don't know how many colors you can paint people. She Got >> >> Meryl in a bath tub of Milk how about some nice yellow water and some >> >> stinky talent in it. Its not as if it's not been done and attracted a >> >> lot of attention. >> >> I thought of doing myself people with their cats but lets fact it that's >> >> pretty boring compared to what Annie does. I think we'd need to dress up >> >> the cats in funny outfits. Like super heroes. Hulk Cat. >> >> >> >> Rocky J. Squirrel. >> >> >> >> Mark Rabovitz >> >> >> >> Portland, Oregon USA >> >> http://www.rabinergroup.com >> >> -- >> >> To unsubscribe, see >> >> http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >> >> LUic> -- >> LUic> To unsubscribe, see >> LUic> http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >> >> >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Sonny mailto:sonc@sonc.com >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, see >> http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html LUic> -- LUic> To unsubscribe, see LUic> http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Best regards, Sonny mailto:sonc@sonc.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html