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some beautiful photos here
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 6:48 am
by [xeno]Julios
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 6:52 am
by Transient
I just saw a picture of a cicada shell. I used to live in PA and heard those goddamn things ALL THE FUCKING TIME. They annoyed the fuck out of me during the summer...
Some pretty good pictures though.
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 8:04 am
by rep
I'm buying a house about ninety miles southwest of there as soon as I can handle it.
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 8:50 am
by seremtan
Transient wrote:I just saw a picture of a cicada shell. I used to live in PA and heard those goddamn things ALL THE FUCKING TIME. They annoyed the fuck out of me during the summer...
i remember them in the NZ bush. deafening, like white noise from hell
edit: oh yeah, great pix
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 8:56 am
by Transient
I used to collect their shells from tree trunks and put them in huge containers. I still have one my mother kept. I don't know why, but it's still around. It's kind of creepy to have a bunch of insect husks on a shelf, LOL...
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 10:13 am
by Dek
looks like some good pics with some photoshop tinkering after the fact.. but nice
Re: some beautiful photos here
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 1:24 pm
by Giraffe }{unter
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I love all the idiots arguing about the photgraphs...
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 2:19 pm
by rep
:lol: Dorks talking about keeping photography, "Chromo-accurate." What's chromo? LOL. Did they mean chroma?
Jesus, these kids don't even have a spyder.
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 2:49 pm
by R00k
Nice, some really great photos there. :icon14:
Re: some beautiful photos here
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 2:50 pm
by seremtan
I think that Walter Benjamin would disagree with Citizen Premier.
As for accuracy it sounds like what your looking for is reality (I assume this partly because of your difficulty in seeing photography as art). However Jean Baudrillard points out that "reduplicating" of the real through simulation produces the "hyperreal." And since (as far as he is concerned at least) we are in a complete state of "hyperrealism" already there would be no point in seeking reality through photography, which for it part helps to create the "hyperreal". Reality "reduplicated" (photography) is "volatilized", and nether the reproduction nor the reproduced are of greater importance. Baudrillard claims this becomes an allegory for death, which makes the whole thing sound pretty arty to me.
:lol:
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 2:53 pm
by R00k
Art critics. :icon22: