staying calm as I can but I've just had another one of my workfiles (uni powerpoints with all my work on it) go corrupt, even the backup. Second time this has happened, I am limited to 40% (bottom percentage of a pass) on one of my first modules because of this happening.
Thank fuck first year doesn't count jesus
update:
All of my workfiles have been corrupted. I've got 3 modules on at the moment, 2 of which are due in in the next fortnight. I've been working an extra 4-5 hours a day on these to try and actually do well and I've lost all my work.
wow, someone come give me a hug pls
[QUOTE=FlippR;44149880]if you knew anything about photos u would realize we are nearing the 'singularity.' This is a point where all possible pixel combinations have been created and there is no longer any point in taking phhotos. RIP[/QUOTE]
this is sorta true tho i think
as photog moves into the mainstream taking photos to be popular would mean taking photos of just generic ideas, once we hit a critical number of peoples in the area + interconnectedness between them I reckon we'll see a huge huge surge of photographs of all same ideas, by photographers just looking at basically themselves so they aren't inspired and aren't self-critqing, pushing the avant garde and the actual new ideas to the edge
Here's a short sci-fi novelette which I think has some of the themes you mention Eltro
10 minutes out of your life, but much more time gained in new thoughts.
[url]http://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm[/url]
[QUOTE=Pickwickian-;44151072]Here's a short sci-fi novelette which I think has some of the themes you mention Eltro
10 minutes out of your life, but much more time gained in new thoughts.
[url]http://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm[/url][/QUOTE]
i've read that, asimov is a lad
similar (probs a bit more of a throwaway line) themes from a terry prachett novel called "Strata", it's a pretty neat and short book i really liked the ideas on life and stuff it has too
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similar (more to the asimov story) themes in [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Maker[/url], with the entropic progression and struggle for life although probs more abstract climax with the whole star maker thing
[QUOTE=Eltro102;44151158]i've read that, asimov is a lad
similar (probs a bit more of a throwaway line) themes from a terry prachett novel called "Strata", it's a pretty neat and short book i really liked the ideas on life and stuff it has too
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similar (more to the asimov story) themes in [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Maker[/url], with the entropic progression and struggle for life although probs more abstract climax with the whole star maker thing[/QUOTE]
Yup. To be honest, pretty much all sci-fi content has been recycled from somewhere else. It's because they all explore the same types of themes in one way or another.
esp if it was written around the same time, since a bunch of it is commentary on ideas popular at that time
The "all the same" or "everything has been done" arguments usually come from the un-initiated to the respective genre or movement. If you dig deep enough you'll find that everything is a remix of (or at least influenced by) something else.
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The problem of feeling like nothing new can happen with this forum most likely comes from the plain fact that the majority haven't really found their voices or artistic identities yet.
[QUOTE=bopie;44152947]The "all the same" or "everything has been done" arguments usually come from the un-initiated to the respective genre or movement. If you dig deep enough you'll find that everything is a remix of (or at least influenced by) something else.
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The problem of feeling like nothing new can happen with this forum most likely comes from the plain fact that the majority haven't really found their voices or artistic identities yet.[/QUOTE]
can you elaborate on 'artistic identities'?
If you were a character in a sitcom about artists (don't limit it to the medium of photo), what would your 'character' be? Most of us are pretty bland and one-dimensional (not that any one actually [i]is[/i], but [i]their art[/i] is) right now. Almost none of us have a consistent theme or 'modus operandi'. We've all got training wheels on still, so to speak. What's your 'brand'?
Hope that clarifies things.
[QUOTE=bopie;44155392]If you were a character in a sitcom about artists (don't limit it to the medium of photo), what would your 'character' be? Most of us are pretty bland and one-dimensional right now. Almost none of us have a consistent theme or 'modus operandi'. We've all got training wheels on still, so to speak. What's your 'brand'?
Hope that clarifies things.[/QUOTE]
is this something that needs to be thought about, or is this something that you just form into overtime? perhaps both?
as a person not looking to make a career out of art, is it important for me to still explore my artistic identity?
i'm interested in hearing your thoughts, show me something new, mang.
Bope, what camera are you getting?
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[QUOTE=bopie;44155392]If you were a character in a sitcom about artists (don't limit it to the medium of photo), what would your 'character' be? Most of us are pretty bland and one-dimensional (not that any one actually [i]is[/i], but [i]their art[/i] is) right now. Almost none of us have a consistent theme or 'modus operandi'. We've all got training wheels on still, so to speak. What's your 'brand'?
Hope that clarifies things.[/QUOTE]
I think this is probably the biggest thing I struggle with. I often find myself wanting a 'project' but ultimately I always feel like I've just categorized a few of my photos.
I don't even focus on a "style" that makes me unique, if you just keep taking photographs, it would come naturally, I would think.
I think 'practice practice practice' really works, keep doing something, and you will see what works and what doesn't, and improve from it
I'd be the guy who knows exactly what he wants out of a photograph in his mind but can never realise it.
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Is that a sitcom trope?
[img]http://static.tumblr.com/2f53462b00ac003e327efa7450d7c873/qevui4r/gO7mymea0/tumblr_static_bazinga.jpg[/img]
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i developed 2 rolls today, one from 2013 and one from 2011 (i think)
getting inspired to shoot more B&W
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(scanning right now)
[QUOTE=bopie;44155718]You definitely don't need an arts education to be an artist. Though a dash of awareness never hurt anyone. [I]Just follow whatever interests you.[/I]
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This. My mate, who's main talent is playing guitar, will only usually play an electric infront of people and will pretty much exclusively learn rock/metal songs with huge riffs, but I know that he has an extensive knowledge of classical guitar too because he studied it for a good 8 years. He uses what he was taught in classical to play fast solos (classical is heavy on hand/finger positioning to allow for fast playing). What I'm getting at is that you don't need to shoot exactly like other photographers or shoot in the style of a certain art movement but find the ones you like and use your knowledge of [I]why[/I] you like it and find it inspiring to your advantage.
[QUOTE=Him1411;44151038]staying calm as I can but I've just had another one of my workfiles (uni powerpoints with all my work on it) go corrupt, even the backup. Second time this has happened, I am limited to 40% (bottom percentage of a pass) on one of my first modules because of this happening.
Thank fuck first year doesn't count jesus
update:
All of my workfiles have been corrupted. I've got 3 modules on at the moment, 2 of which are due in in the next fortnight. I've been working an extra 4-5 hours a day on these to try and actually do well and I've lost all my work.
wow, someone come give me a hug pls[/QUOTE]
UPDATE: went to the IT techies today and tried them and they work fine, guess it was just the mac I was on. Plus, just had a crit with my course leader about my book and he thinks the concept is solid as fuq and the idea has a lot of potential if I am considerate when it comes to shoots. DAMN 10/10 MORNING.
WOOOOOOOOOW I'M NOT GONNA FAAAAIL
there was an opossum sitting next to my house acting kinda sick and weird and after trying to scare it off for maybe 30 minutes the police came and decided to shoot it with a pellet gun (a creature the size of a large house cat) and it took them 7 shots to kill it
:(
where are the pictures??
or did you not take any?
i have pics of the possum not the cops
i have a video of the cops shooting it several times. imo they should have just shot it once with the pellet gun to stop it from moving and then grabbed their pistol or long rifle and put it down that way
Or snapped its neck.
so I just went out for a night stroll and saw this
[img]http://s9.postimg.org/wa8j5ccrz/nightstrolls.jpg[/img]
Guess who pulls up just as I'm about to continue?? That's right the popo!!
[t]http://i.imgur.com/9iBQgEY.jpg[/t]
I hope I don't die in public like that poor dude, wouldn't want the pics posted on some kind of alien forum for laughs.
Or maybe I would.
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That possum had no idea that his image would be circulating around the entire world at the speed of light between bored forum posters.
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RIP
[QUOTE=bopie;44165514]
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That possum had no idea that his image would be circulating around the entire world at the speed of [/QUOTE]
[i]opossum[/i]
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rip
But seriously, possums and opossums are unrelated animals.
They are both Marsupials (they are a primitive order of mammals - lacking placentas - which give birth to undeveloped live young which then make their way to their mothers pouch and complete their development there).
This is both advantageous and disadvantageous to their reproduction, because it means that when their offspring are born, they are vulnerable to the external world (disease, predation, accidental death etc.), but it also means that the mother can become fertilised again and create another embryo whilst she's raising her other offspring in her pouch - putting your eggs in different baskets if you will.
Opossums are originally from South America - some have made it as far north as the Southern United States (and some have been introduced into the American West Coast since European Settlement), but possums are from Australia and New Guinea.
About 80% of all marsupial species live in Australia - and the diversity of marsupial life there is astounding. Through convergent evolution, a plethora of varying body types have evolved to fulfil similar niches in their environments (think kangaroos, wombats, koalas, possums etc.) as the placental mammals found in other parts of the globe.
Marsupials originated from landmass which is now gone, which included Australia, Antarctica and South America.
When these landmasses diverged the marsupials ruled over the respective continents (including Antarctica which then got too cold for their (and any other land mammals) survival.
However, since as South America moved north, when it collided with the North American plate, the placental and marsupial mammals began to cross between the two continents. Ultimately, the marsupials were out-competed by the hardier placental mammals which took over South America - Opossums were the only clade of marsupials to survive in South America. They are lone survivors of a bygone age.
Since Australia was isolated, the marsupials there ruled unchallenged for millions of years (creating the massive diversity of species we see there today) until in the last few hundred years since the arrival of mass amounts of invasive species brought on since European Settlement.
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Bonus:
On a side note, Australia (and New Guinea) is also home to the only species of monotremes left in the world.
They are a completely archaic type of mammal which have retained some of their reptilian features (THEY LEY EGGS - amongst other things), but still have fur and feed their young on milk (but not from nipples, rather just secretions directly from the skin) and are much older in their origin than either the placental or marsupial mammals.
They are the echidna and the platypus.
I believe there are 3 species of echidna - but the definition of a species is a very vague concept, and there are multiple ways of classifying species so it gets cloudy often.
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I hope you all enjoyed Pickwickian's natural history lesson on marsupial mammals.
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