Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, That's a question that's been fascinating me of late, and that I'm trying to write about. It's not that such a life as Smith's is enviable, but whether we live in a culture that authorizes certain people -- the way medieval culture authorized the monastics -- to live at these extremes in order to do what they do. I think we no longer live in such a culture, but did in the Smith's time, just barely. That loft cost him $45 a month and didn't require a credit check, coop board approval, or anything else bureaucratic. All you have to do to eliminate the Smith's of the world is make the loft cost $12,000 a month; the education cost $60,000 a year, etc. (Not that Smith went to college, but he would if he were alive today; and today he'd never quit Life; if Life or anything like it still existed, which it doesn't.) The price we've paid culturally for our new Darwinian economics and lifestyle rectitude strikes me as very high. Vince On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > It's odd that there would be such radically opposed schools of thought on > > his printing: I could understand "really great" versus "good but not > > great...." But what we have is "great" versus "bad amateur." I'll have > to > > do a little more research on this matter, obviously. > > > > PS wha it means PMFJI ? > > > Well if it takes all night 5 boxes of paper 3 gallons of Dektol and a > bottle > of scotch to make one print then how enviable is that? > > You have to appreatate the result without thinking about what went into it. > Smith as a guy with as many problems that you'd not want to as attributes > you'd want to have. If the price of greatness means being that troubled of > a > person I'd think a minutes and try to take a more disciplined route. > > [Rabs] > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >