Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Lluis Ripoll SHOWED: Subject: [Leica] Communication or Incommunication? Buenos d?as querido amigo Lluis, :-) A wonderful captured moment! They are about two feet apart and talking to each other. :-) I have been considered a "Silent Observer!" during my picture takings of 60 plus years. As the TV documentary is entitled, "The Silent Observer." About me. But my voice did turn up sometimes! ;-) However? You have captured the "Silent Talkers!" :-) The mode of youth conversation of today. It wont matter whether they have ears to hear, hearing aids will become lost appliances of the future because who will need them? Texting will be the mode of near complete conversation and communicating! A short story 1998 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I was there as a consultant for the "1998 Commonwealth Games." However at this moment I'm riding on a motor cycle as a passenger. I see 5 young people walking along all talking on cell phones of the day. I ask the driver.... "Who are they all talking to?" He responded...... "EACH OTHER!" "But why?" says I. He responds, "They are born with a cell phone in their hand held to their ear so they use it even though they are walking along together because it's...... "COOL TO DO!" So this was near the beginning of cell phone talk, that has become, "iPhone talk, texting for communicating!!!" WHY? "IT'S COOL!" :-) Vocal language could become near extinct because conversations will be through voice via "cellphone-iphone" of some kind or "texting each other even though humans maybe sitting in the same room or office!" The photo concept by some of the CREW actually has great merit for a series of photos for the age bracket of most on the LUG. We who "talked" to each other from the time we learned to speak and communicate! So maybe a photo scene for all to keep an eye out for as they walk about their daily photo shoots! The iphone scene! If I had to use an iphone today I would considered a "DEAF COMMUNICATION MUTE!" Heck I wouldn't know how to turn one on! :-) Bad enough wearing hearing aids! Hey maybe the answer is.... READY? :-) I get an iphone and text everybody?" ;-) ;-) Anyway my friend a neat photo and I have no doubt a triggering of a new series of photos about iphone people! :-) cheers, ted > Actually I see many people looking at their phones, young people mainly, > but even more older couples. What this mind? Is afraid our society of the > silence, of the solitude, of the own thoughts, of a conversation? In my > opinion the mobiles capture the attention of many people to the detriment > of the communication, the thoughts, the reading... as the TV sets does > many years ago. Now we can communicate with the end of the world, > nevertheless we do not do it with our own neighbor. I ask me how will be > the future generations... the title of the HCB portraits books come to me > "An Inner silence", but maybe this one will be an empty silence.