Damn Woody Allen for coming up with that line first. It's a recurring struggle for me who is always thinking of something insanely clever only to find that someone else has thought it, said it or worse, patented it before I have had the chance to get there.
If you were to think of the best inventions in the last 50 years what would they be? My list would include online porn and ... oh yes digital cameras. The downside of my second choice is that I am now constantly bombarded with heavily 'photoshopped' photographs from rank amateurs (and the odd professional). When did photography become about the after-party for fuck's sake? Of course there's always been a certain amount of post production which was acceptable and still relatively artistic (specially if you were sweating in a tiny dark room as you did your work) but now all you need is a Mac or a PC and CS3/4 to pretend your camera takes photographs where colours are so well, colourful. Worse still when the background is a little blurry and a little streaky as if it took itself for a walk mid-click.
Photographers might think we're stoooopid but I would like to assure them we're not. We know those pictures have been doctored more than most political messages and I for one would like them to stop. I'm all for the mood, the moment and I can't feel any of that when I look at an image that's had all the beauty photo-chopped out of it.
I like that Avatar was so universally loved by the masses and then treated as it was by the Academy. Hurrah to that I say and about bloody time.
I don't why this is related but an article I read this week claims that Michael Ondaatje a. travelled in the boot of the car the writer was travelling in and b. says his comes from the generic name for the people who fashion metal objects for temples. That's not right - or is it?
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