deadmoscow

I couldn't tell, I had to turn this obnoxious fuck off after ten seconds.

And to weigh in - "gif" as in "gift."

I'm surprised it's not going for more than that. Super obscure electronic vinyls are already expensive enough, I wouldn't be surprised if it climbs up to 15-20k before all is said and done.

I think you're missing a big part of why this is making people angry. The professor is teaching a biology class at a college level, to students who are paying a large amount of money for the privilege of hearing him lecture. There's a certain amount of expectation that goes along with that - the professor's personal beliefs are all well and good but do not belong in a science curriculum, full stop.

I just put in my preorder for the new album. I'm unbelievably stoked about it, just 40 days or so until it comes out.

I think Geogaddi is my favorite album of theirs, if not my favorite album ever made. I really hope the new album matches the freaky/ominous tone of the promotional stuff so far.

I feel like the texture of the salsa just wouldn't work well in combination with the texture of the bun.

It's a community college, so I suppose you can't expect them to be completely exacting in their hiring practices, but if I were you I would go have a talk with the department head. This is a collegiate-level biology course; you have to have certain standards for what is being taught. If they don't want to take it seriously, perhaps they should start making inquiries into hiring an astrology professor to round out their pseudoscience department.

To be fair, with a Hasselblad medium format digital back you've got a pretty massive amount of control over every step of the development process. I shoot and process RAW through Bridge --> Photoshop, and while it's a bit "artless" compared to developing and printing in a proper darkroom, I appreciate being able to tweak every last minuscule detail without compromising the original negative in any way. I do miss watching prints magically develop in a tray full of chemicals, though, that kind of feeling can't ever be replaced by scanners and hard drives and Wacom tablets.

EDIT: Whoops! Didn't realize you were strictly talking about film. Yeah, black and white is definitely the way to go if you want more control when developing film.

I went through about three pairs of Sennheiser HD-201's throughout college - they were relatively cheap and still provided great sound, although the cheap plastic construction was a huge downside. I've since upgraded to a pair of Sony MDR-somethingorothers, which have that neat little noise-canceling switch for airplanes. They sound a hell of a lot better than anything else I've owned, but since I've started collecting music on vinyl and my apartment isn't the best for loud music, I need to invest in a really nice pair of cans.

When some teenager with Instagram creates a cohesive body of work that documents something like Chicago street life with the kind of emotional quality that Vivien Maier or any other actual photographer can produce, get back to me. I can understand why someone might brush off photography because you "just point and shoot, right?" I used to have the same reaction before I tried to pick up a camera and do the same thing. Both film and digital photography require a huge amount of developed skill and dedication to be able to produce something of passable technical quality, let alone create work that makes any kind of statement or observation about the world. The magic of photography is in capturing the "decisive moment," where all the elements of space and time align themselves perfectly and you are able to capture it. I've been taking pictures for years, made thousands upon thousands of exposures, and I can really only point to two or three of my pictures that I would call "good" in any sense.

I don't mean to come off like an asshole, but I really wish people wouldn't brush off photography as a whole because some stupid fucking kids are taking pictures of their lunch with a Holga filter.

Vivien Maier's body of work is amazing, not only for the fact that it went undiscovered for so long, but because it's just incredible street photography. It stands up with Winogrand and Cartier-Bresson's work, as far as I'm concerned. It's almost more impressive that most of them were shot with a Rolleiflex - it's a lot harder to get candid shots when you've got a huge medium format camera on you, which is why most street photographers used discrete 35mm cameras, like Leicas.

Maier also makes me feel like a total idiot for sharing every stupid little piece of art I make on Facebook or Flickr or Twitter or whatever. I made a dumb little painting last night and put it on the internet, for what? Some small feeling of validation and a handful of "likes"?

@clonedzero said:

"Books are stupid, I hate them! Sure, people love reading them, but they're just a bunch of words on a page. I can put a bunch of words on a page too, check this shit out! Rubber. Canada. Trench. Vending machine. Barcode. See!? I'm a great author now!"