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Re: Mortality is DOA?
Landis 2013-Sep-22 19:47:00
Open Photography is open for another week!
I'm planning on heading out on a bit of a walk today and taking a panorama of the new SF-Oakland Bay Bridge right next to the old one. Originally opened in 1936 the old eastern span closed this year with the opening of a new one. The old span "lived" for 77 years.
Kat went out and did some panos of the line outside a local Apple Store of people hoping to be among the first to pick up a new iPhone. The lifespan of our electronic gear seems to be getting shorter and shorter. I still have my first Nokia cell phone that I purchased in 1999. Haven't fired it up in a while, but I'm betting it still works. Still, I'll be joining that line for a new smartphone soon enough.
There are plenty of things that can fit in this theme besides the obvious ones. Feel free to share your interpretation from your part of the globe.
-Landis
On 21 Sep 2013, at 08:28 , Don Bain wrote:
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> Caroling (and other WWP participants),
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> Yes, the event is on and the server is open. Glad to hear you are in a panorama mood!
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> Bostjan has been announcing and promoting the event, the rest of the team seem to have been distracted. Personally, I am feeling the weight of 500+ unfinished panos from my summer travels.
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> I am still kicking around ideas for an essay - but getting it written and posted promptly is problematic.
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> Seems like a broad and obvious theme to me, all things must end and the evidence is all around us. Then there is the flipside - immortality, promises and vain aspirations also abundant.
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> For me the obvious subject would be the vast military cemetery at the Presidio in San Francisco. Or a picturesque little graveyard in the gold country. Maybe a monument to someone for whom mortality came prematurely and unexpectedly. Or the unmemorialized mortality of vanished indigenous peoples and civilian casualties of war?
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> How about the mortality of non-human living things - forests killed in the recent huge wildfire in Yosemite, and oak trees dying from Sudden Oak Death disease which I can see from my window.
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> I worry a lot about the potential mortality of our artistic efforts. Paper and canvas (and silver based photographic media) are surviving amazingly well, but what about the ephemeral series of ones and zeroes that we are all producing now? How could one portray the potential mortality of data in the cloud?
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> Just a few thoughts. Anyone else want to share?
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> Don
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> On Sep 21, 2013, at 8:07 AM, Caroling Geary <#removed#> wrote:
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>> Dead On Arrival? Just kidding. Today I got inspired to do a panorama, which hasn't happened to me for months and years. Since it is very close to the equinox I wondered if the WWP event was on. Yes! The theme, Mortality, would seem to be the opposite of what I was dreaming of. Looking for the essay, I see it is coming soon. But at the moment it is undefined. Lucky for me. Getting camera ready ...
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>> Caroling - http://wholeo.net
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