tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post5139697683553786514..comments2024-03-27T09:27:33.931+00:00Comments on Idiotic Hat: ClassicMike C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-55712185995778658082015-06-09T09:30:43.501+01:002015-06-09T09:30:43.501+01:00Zouk,
No abuse received yet, but if I do, like Dy...Zouk,<br /><br />No abuse received yet, but if I do, like Dylan I will play really fuckin' LOUD!<br /><br />Yes, it's a bit like that, with film as acoustic guitar, "straight" digital as "amplified but pure", and hyper-photoshoppers as effects-jockeying, but I'm really going beyond all that into the arena of graphic design, which is what Photoshop is really for! The musical analogy might be hip-hop, as I suppose you could say I'm "sampling" the world using my own photographs as the raw material...<br /><br />Mike<br /><br />Mike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-78680097108114708802015-06-08T23:59:29.850+01:002015-06-08T23:59:29.850+01:00PS Pushing the right buttons: see what you did the...PS Pushing the right buttons: see what you did there!Zouk Delorshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07983226210415857258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-79468560150553790582015-06-08T23:57:24.795+01:002015-06-08T23:57:24.795+01:00Yes, I think I've seen reference to the issue ...Yes, I think I've seen reference to the issue in these pages before. It reminds me of the attitude of folkies in the sixties to electrification -- and the infamous "Judas" heckle to Dylan. I certainly hope you haven't been getting abuse like that!<br /><br />I suppose Photoshop <i>et al</i> are to the digital camera what the effects box is to the electric guitar -- and anathema to the chemical purists?Zouk Delorshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07983226210415857258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-84028722602386615882015-06-08T14:57:57.714+01:002015-06-08T14:57:57.714+01:00Zouk,
The mechanical nature of photography is a c...Zouk,<br /><br />The mechanical nature of photography is a constant issue that will probably never go away -- some have resisted digital cameras because it seems to remove the last vestige of "craft" from the process (Mary Ellen Mark being one such). Funny how no-one minds how few painters these days grind their own pigments.<br /><br />You're right though, at the moment this is pushing the right buttons for me, and I'm having a new lease of creative life. Which is nice.<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-64292869886035473592015-06-08T14:18:45.895+01:002015-06-08T14:18:45.895+01:00Wasn't it Garfield who said: "People don&...Wasn't it Garfield who said: "People don't want 'nice'; people want 'consistent'"?<br /><br />I recently read the obituary of documentary photographer <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/may/27/mary-ellen-mark" rel="nofollow">Mary Ellen Mark</a>, who said: "I think photography is closest to writing, not painting, because you are using this machine to convey an idea". It's obvious you are enjoying the extra creative input needed to produce these mixed-media collages.Zouk Delorshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07983226210415857258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-65748344806002262062015-06-07T21:05:35.284+01:002015-06-07T21:05:35.284+01:00Thanks, Martyn -- I'm having a lot of fun with...Thanks, Martyn -- I'm having a lot of fun with this new direction, and making at least one new picture (usually in several versions) a day. It's gone ominously quiet, though, so I suspect a number of previously loyal photo-purists have backed away in horror... Ah, well, no accounting for taste.<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-33528689246690700842015-06-07T20:59:36.132+01:002015-06-07T20:59:36.132+01:00Strangely, he looks more bonkers in your mirror ve...Strangely, he looks more bonkers in your mirror version. Lovely found art in the car park 'extracts'Martyn Cornellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16843357962176591317noreply@blogger.com