Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Anyything that gets my 14-year old reading with enthusiasm is a GOOD THING. In the current issue there is the long article about flight that you refer to, and also a long one about the life of the samurai. Flying and Japan are two topics that interest him very much, and he has been devouring that particular issue. Nathan Mark Rabiner wrote: > BD says it's pretty pictures but I think it's getting better. > > 1. I buy it at the grocery store. NO more insiders club feeling. Skull > and crossbones Yale white guys. > > 2. Last months cover was about "surveillance." And it wasn't about > bugging Pigmy huts either. > > This month has a Stealth fighter on the cover. They must have been BD on > reading the lug. > > I never saw airplanes on the cover of NA before! It was always people > and tree's! No high tech Popular Science stuff! (the other magazine I'd > get the last Thursday of every month growing up as a kid in the 60's)* > I think they've > got new people in there with a more viable modern approach to the whole > thing. It's become more viable. A genetically re-engeeered dinosaur now. Not > the stale relic it has started to look and read like. Not that anybody reads. > Did somebody say they were shying away from digital? I bet that rule is > coming to an end. > > One of the shots in there was of a new European jetliner flying over a city. > When you read the blurb they tell you that the "photograph" is computer generated. > In other words you find out that what you thought was "real" was not. > We never had that problem with their drawings! > That plane had not quite gotten off the ground yet! > Mixed feelings about that. Not sure such a thing is a common > journalistic tool. As a matter of fact i think it's not as it throws > doubt on all other "photographs's in the periodical. Which is a > periodical filled with photographs. Which are real and which are > memorex? A challenge we can do without. > > Mark Rabiner > > Portland, Oregon USA > http://www.rabinergroup.com > > * I'd be engrossed in both right up to dinner in my Dads Naugahyde lounger. > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands e-mail: n.wajsman@chello.nl Mobile: +31 630 868 671 Photo site: http://www.wajsmanphoto.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html