Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Truth be told, My wife, who has an Anthropology and Education Master from Stanford is the person that allows me to leave my hospital bed only for about three hours at nights. After 1am she takes the computer from me so i have to get as much in before 1. But thank God for my Leicas, I get to take them out of my black, red, blue, green, purple, brown, and yellow boxes not to mention all the other boxes I have with their respective lenses. I mean the rainbow ask me for colours every time it decides to grace the sky.. Now do I sound like I should be looking in a box for a tiger or am I still a few puzzles short of a complete jigsaw puzzle...ahhh is it Pepsi or Coke:-) By the way Sonny I wish I could get my name popping up in my emails instead of Leica- user.... Peace Ruddy Roye > 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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html