Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/01/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Looks tidy to me.... Douglas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Klein" <pklein at threshinc.com> To: "lug" <lug at leica-users.org>; <olympus at thomasclausen.net> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 8:24 AM Subject: [Leica] IMG: Perestroika, 2014 >I am cleaning up and reorganizing my Man-Cave, otherwise known as my > den. After 14 years of piling stuff up, it was time. Note that this is > a gen-you-wine Leica photograph, taken with a bona fide Leica M8 body > and an authentic Leica 35/1.4 Aspffffffftheric lens. > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/11960567184/ > > Marvel at the spectacle of chaos and entropy glacially coalescing into > order. Note the cleverly balanced compositional elements of the scalene > triangle formed by the red dictionary on my computer table, the orange > "Magnum Degrees" book on the left and the four yellow Kodachrome boxes > on the right (the latter placed on my desk several years ago in > prescient anticipation of this moment). Note also the profusion of > ancient switch boxes, modems, serial cables and SCSI stuff, the sad > digital detritus of passing time, scattered like mammoth bones in a > Neanderthal cave dwelling, evoking the swift obsolescence of the > Information Age. We won't even mention the piles of paper. > > When I emerge from this epic struggle, dusty but victorious, I shall see > table surfaces again! Some things shall go to the recycle bin, others > to the trash, still others to the waiting maws of stackable plastic > storage bins and drawers, part of the eternal cosmic cycle of of birth, > death, decay and rebirth. > > Yeah. That's it. > > --Peter > (Hey, I posted a photo, didn't I?) > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >