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The Radio weblog of Hal Rager

Sunday, April 14, 2002

"Spring Facelift. It's Spring, and a man's fancy turns towards...a redesign..." [Erehwon Notebook] Nice and clean, it looks good, Doug. 10:34:47 PM    comment   trackback []

Paul Valery. "The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be." [Quotes of the Day] The past has taken a beating too. 2:11:50 PM    comment   trackback []

Jonathon was writing about The Google API? when this little nugget poped out (I'm pretty amivalent about the Goggle API, but then, both blivet and blivet radio are safely removed from the cutting edge): "In the nearly twenty years I spent as a photographer, I learned one significant truth: the less reliance I placed on technological gimmicks, the better my pictures became. One film, one developer, one paper, one camera, two lenses (...). When I taught photography, I suggested this minimalist approach to my students. Most of them rejected it out of hand, protesting that it restricted their creativity. When I repeated the Japanese aesthetic maxim -- the further you travel along a narrow path, the wider it becomes -- they looked blankly at me, as though I'd spoken to them in a foreign language. I can't see weblogging gimmicks as being any different -- though, if someone can explain how the Google API will make me a better writer, I'm willing to listen. But I suspect the New York photographer Ed Feingersh's late 40s aphorism applies equally to weblogging: The cameras get better and better, but the pictures stay just the same." [Jonathon Delacour] 2:09:07 PM    comment   trackback []