Good, reputation is overrated. I mean you don't punctuate or capitalize properly, and you don't worry about someone berating you for not maintaining the reputation of the written word as a serious medium for expression.
You're going there, you're criticizing my punctuation and capitalization skills???
As for your point, it makes no sense. I mean, it sounds fine, and it reads just perfectly, the capitalization and punctuation is almost spot on, but there's no substance to it. I don't worry what others think, that would be as dumb as another photo filter app. The written word will manage just fine long after we're both pushing up daisies.
I think you might have been trying to make some kind of snide remark comparing the written word's reputation to the plight that photograph has taken in recent years. That might be something that would be interesting to talk about. Twitter has done to the written word much the same that Instagram (et al) has for photography. There's a lexicon all to twitter, it has its own vocabulary, it's own grammar and so on. Anyone, like me, who does machine learning using twitter is painfully aware of how the authors of twitter have degraded and abused the language as a "serious medium for expression.", Photo filter apps have done the same for photography making it harder for actual photographers to be taken seriously in the art world.
Actually, I think I read too much into what you wrote, I think it just didn't say much of anything at all, just a pretentious attempt at an insult. Let me guess, a liberal arts major :)
No, it's not an insult. I just think it's crazy that anyone sits around fretting about the artistic merits of Instagram photos. I don't see how one person's crummy photo has any bearing on someone else's seriously good photo. You or I can type any gibberish into a text box on the internet, and it has just as much right to exist there as anything else. And it doesn't affect how good anyone else's writing is. So no one worries about it, and I don't see why anyone worries about crummy photos either.
Fair enough, we don't agree but this is a free country after all. And besides, who cares what either of us think about this point, history will decide. Photography is definitely morphing into something new with technology playing a larger role over time. The written word on the internet isn't really a good analogy, a better one would be software that takes the written word and embellishes it with similes and metaphors generated from HMM algorithms, or rewriting adjectives with embellished phrases for you, or converting it to iambic pentameter. These are the literary metaphors of photo filters. Can you imagine picking up a copy of Gravity's Rainbow and having to chose between the Ludwig, Aden or Mayfair filter. One has Slothrop not rescue Katje from the octopus. That's what these photo filter apps are doing to photography. Maybe people don't care, maybe there's layers to photography and there's no spill between them, like you say, maybe these layers are isolated from one another. I like it when the name changes so we don't call them photo filters but something more lomo to show it's not meant to be photography. If he were dead, Jeff Wall would be rolling in his grave.
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Good, reputation is overrated. I mean you don't punctuate or capitalize properly, and you don't worry about someone berating you for not maintaining the reputation of the written word as a serious medium for expression.
You're going there, you're criticizing my punctuation and capitalization skills???
As for your point, it makes no sense. I mean, it sounds fine, and it reads just perfectly, the capitalization and punctuation is almost spot on, but there's no substance to it. I don't worry what others think, that would be as dumb as another photo filter app. The written word will manage just fine long after we're both pushing up daisies.
I think you might have been trying to make some kind of snide remark comparing the written word's reputation to the plight that photograph has taken in recent years. That might be something that would be interesting to talk about. Twitter has done to the written word much the same that Instagram (et al) has for photography. There's a lexicon all to twitter, it has its own vocabulary, it's own grammar and so on. Anyone, like me, who does machine learning using twitter is painfully aware of how the authors of twitter have degraded and abused the language as a "serious medium for expression.", Photo filter apps have done the same for photography making it harder for actual photographers to be taken seriously in the art world.
Actually, I think I read too much into what you wrote, I think it just didn't say much of anything at all, just a pretentious attempt at an insult. Let me guess, a liberal arts major :)
No, it's not an insult. I just think it's crazy that anyone sits around fretting about the artistic merits of Instagram photos. I don't see how one person's crummy photo has any bearing on someone else's seriously good photo. You or I can type any gibberish into a text box on the internet, and it has just as much right to exist there as anything else. And it doesn't affect how good anyone else's writing is. So no one worries about it, and I don't see why anyone worries about crummy photos either.
I have a BA in CS :)
Fair enough, we don't agree but this is a free country after all. And besides, who cares what either of us think about this point, history will decide. Photography is definitely morphing into something new with technology playing a larger role over time. The written word on the internet isn't really a good analogy, a better one would be software that takes the written word and embellishes it with similes and metaphors generated from HMM algorithms, or rewriting adjectives with embellished phrases for you, or converting it to iambic pentameter. These are the literary metaphors of photo filters. Can you imagine picking up a copy of Gravity's Rainbow and having to chose between the Ludwig, Aden or Mayfair filter. One has Slothrop not rescue Katje from the octopus. That's what these photo filter apps are doing to photography. Maybe people don't care, maybe there's layers to photography and there's no spill between them, like you say, maybe these layers are isolated from one another. I like it when the name changes so we don't call them photo filters but something more lomo to show it's not meant to be photography. If he were dead, Jeff Wall would be rolling in his grave.