Comments for A Transient Rumination http://blog.marcullom.com Thoughts on Photography & Creativity Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:32:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 Comment on The Necessity of Words by Lexi http://blog.marcullom.com/2009/01/the-necessity-of-words/#comment-112 Lexi Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:06:01 +0000 http://blog.marcullom.com/?p=91#comment-112 I hate this problem. I think photographs do speak and can stand on their own to a certain extent but there isn't any guarantee that anyone will pick up on the specific meaning you've tried to convey. I'm still caught up in the romance of the photograph and I desperately want it to be enough... but I don't know if it really is. It just makes me so sad. I hate this problem. I think photographs do speak and can stand on their own to a certain extent but there isn’t any guarantee that anyone will pick up on the specific meaning you’ve tried to convey. I’m still caught up in the romance of the photograph and I desperately want it to be enough… but I don’t know if it really is. It just makes me so sad.

]]> Comment on News Update by Lexi http://blog.marcullom.com/2009/01/news-update/#comment-87 Lexi Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:58:50 +0000 http://blog.marcullom.com/?p=63#comment-87 All this is awesome, I'm so happy for you. Go you! You deserve it!! All this is awesome, I’m so happy for you. Go you! You deserve it!!

]]> Comment on Limitations by Kev http://blog.marcullom.com/2009/01/limitations/#comment-80 Kev Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:13:46 +0000 http://blog.marcullom.com/?p=59#comment-80 That's exactly it. The Decisive Moment. It's such an ignored concept now. And about newspapers... they are printing cellphone pictures now. thats' where the decisive moment is gone, in everyone else's pockets. I am one of those putting the brakes on... because tools are driven by business models, income generation and not the need of the artists. This is also why I would still prefer a dark room and chemicals, just so my creativity wouldn't be influenced in any way by adobe's or apple's share holders. But you are right about the limitations :) It never stops. That’s exactly it. The Decisive Moment. It’s such an ignored concept now. And about newspapers… they are printing cellphone pictures now. thats’ where the decisive moment is gone, in everyone else’s pockets.

I am one of those putting the brakes on… because tools are driven by business models, income generation and not the need of the artists. This is also why I would still prefer a dark room and chemicals, just so my creativity wouldn’t be influenced in any way by adobe’s or apple’s share holders. But you are right about the limitations :) It never stops.

]]> Comment on Photographing From Memory by admin http://blog.marcullom.com/2008/10/photographing-from-memory/#comment-76 admin Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:57:28 +0000 http://blog.marcullom.com/?p=54#comment-76 Ah...Kevin, so nice to see you have found my place of venting. Sounds like you have been doing some thinking yourself. Ah…Kevin, so nice to see you have found my place of venting. Sounds like you have been doing some thinking yourself.

]]> Comment on Critique by Kev http://blog.marcullom.com/2008/10/critique/#comment-75 Kev Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:20:18 +0000 http://blog.marcullom.com/?p=12#comment-75 I miss critique. I really get nowhere with comments like "nice" "great" "awesome" ... I miss critique. I really get nowhere with comments like “nice” “great” “awesome” …

]]> Comment on Photographing From Memory by Kev http://blog.marcullom.com/2008/10/photographing-from-memory/#comment-74 Kev Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:17:11 +0000 http://blog.marcullom.com/?p=54#comment-74 @marc: There is a paradox here. Depending on your angle of approach, photography creates memory. Memory depends on photography, whether it is a mental image or a physical print, whereas photography only depends on your intent. Documenting, as an art like Cartier Bresson, expressing his view without altering reality, maybe merely just cropping out the parts that don't belong to his original thought process, or Creating, Composing, like the pieces you create using technology and alternative mediums. This is an intriguing question, and I'll have to come up with an answer for myself. This could be a thesis in itself! @lexi: 100 years from now, photography will exist, because some of us out there want to preserve the essence of this method of capture. In my opinion a still image is far more powerful than a moving image or any type of scary implants that may come up. @marc: There is a paradox here. Depending on your angle of approach, photography creates memory. Memory depends on photography, whether it is a mental image or a physical print, whereas photography only depends on your intent. Documenting, as an art like Cartier Bresson, expressing his view without altering reality, maybe merely just cropping out the parts that don’t belong to his original thought process, or Creating, Composing, like the pieces you create using technology and alternative mediums. This is an intriguing question, and I’ll have to come up with an answer for myself. This could be a thesis in itself!

@lexi: 100 years from now, photography will exist, because some of us out there want to preserve the essence of this method of capture. In my opinion a still image is far more powerful than a moving image or any type of scary implants that may come up.

]]> Comment on Photographing From Memory by Lexi http://blog.marcullom.com/2008/10/photographing-from-memory/#comment-69 Lexi Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:51:24 +0000 http://blog.marcullom.com/?p=54#comment-69 I want to read more! Ah well, I know you're busy. I want to read more! Ah well, I know you’re busy.

]]> Comment on The Act Of Writing by Mabel http://blog.marcullom.com/2008/10/the-act-of-writing/#comment-6 Mabel Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:49:28 +0000 http://blog.marcullom.com/?p=22#comment-6 Well said. Well said.

]]> Comment on Photographing From Memory by Lexi http://blog.marcullom.com/2008/10/photographing-from-memory/#comment-3 Lexi Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:00:59 +0000 http://blog.marcullom.com/?p=54#comment-3 I'm so glad to see you back up!!! And with new posts even, very good! One of the things I love about photography is that reality is necessary because it means that something did exist a form of proof, and you know how I love my proof. I love that if it says nothing else it says that the thing existed and I was there to photograph it. I'm not sure what it would mean to photograph from memory, I know what it would mean to photograph because of memory. Those aren't the same things though... 100 years from now photography wont exist at all, videos will be made through inter-retinal-devices and if you want a still from that you just take one. But every moment of every day will be recorded through this device implanted in your brain at birth. It's not only a way to replace memory but also a form of governmental control. It is pretty scary, that's why I came back to good old 2008. I’m so glad to see you back up!!! And with new posts even, very good!

One of the things I love about photography is that reality is necessary because it means that something did exist a form of proof, and you know how I love my proof. I love that if it says nothing else it says that the thing existed and I was there to photograph it. I’m not sure what it would mean to photograph from memory, I know what it would mean to photograph because of memory. Those aren’t the same things though…

100 years from now photography wont exist at all, videos will be made through inter-retinal-devices and if you want a still from that you just take one. But every moment of every day will be recorded through this device implanted in your brain at birth. It’s not only a way to replace memory but also a form of governmental control. It is pretty scary, that’s why I came back to good old 2008.

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