[Leica] The Slippery Slope

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

Unlike in the 50's when super heroes wore colored underwear on TV and hence
shot themselves out of embarrassment we now have Lycra and spandex and micro
fiber and spray airbrush guns with makeup in them.

Super heroes can now look like super heroes with the strap on six-pack for a
tummy. And other accessories and impediments.

So I say to bring back darkroom work instead of darkroom aprons come out
with a line of darkroom super hero outfits. Dektolproof of course. That
would be the supposed reason. But the real reason of course is we get to act
out our fantasies in the green yellow dark where none can see us. I bet we'd
print faster. Get more done. Clean up better. Depending on which super hero
we'd pick. But many of us would come up with our own versions Of "Darkroom
Man'. Or "Darkroom Girl". And it would be like the Leica A la cart you can
design which colors, cape? How long? Utility belt? Which shape. Boots?
Spurs?

And put it in the skinny drying closet and change back into Bruce Kent the
digital executive on the way out the darkroom door into the bright light of
real digital world.

Mark Rabiner