Oh, I cn stand around all day saying, “Yeah, I like it.” But telling why I like it is a different story. I can’t always do that.
JAn
On Aug 9, 2012, at 10:33 PM, Stephen Ylvisaker wrote: Correct, none of us should be the same people we were a decade ago. One of the definitions of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results. So, if we're the same people, one might draw the conclusion we're insane. We should all be works in progress.
Having been associated with various artists over the years, and being a musician myself, I have some understanding of the NEED to be doing something in your art much of the time. It is something that must flow out of the soul, or it will seem to be killing you.
Although constructive criticism is derived from the same source as above, it is difficult to achieve for many of us because it requires taking something conceptual and abstract, and making something logical and concrete in order for it to be shared and understood (with every intent that it be understood
the same way) by the recipient. That difficulty offers a roadblock to many of us to doing critiques.
Stephen
--- On Thu, 8/9/12, Jan Faul <jan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I’d like to offer what I can in getting back in the groove as it were. I just put one of my assistants on the PTC project today, so we’ll see what she turns up. Assistants are a steady fact of life now that I have problems carrying a 15 pound tripod with a 5 pound camera on it. I’m not supposed to carry anything heavier than a football and a tripod is not in the ballpark. Also the fog of anesthesia is slowly lifting, so reasonably soon I may remember what I forgot.
I am not the same person I was 11 years ago, and I don’t think y’all are
either.
Somebody made a crack about me being more famous than them, but if that’s true, perhaps you can tell me why I still have no books out? I have the pictures for four or five books sitting here (Bomber Command, Legacies of Battle (Civil War), Le 6 Juin 1944, California & The West, Scotch & Water, and so forth. I even had writers for 4 of them, but an idiot doctor interfered and the writers all split.
Just go into a wheelchair for a year or two or three and pretty much everybody you know splits. My partner of 18 years split, because I could no longer be her tour leader. We travelled a lot. I was across the pond for about 100 days a year, and it wasn’t home. To be honest, I haven’t been to an airport to get on a plane since August 2008, and I can hardly wait to get out there again. I desperately need to shoot. It’s more important than learning how to walk perfectly again.
NOw that I’m an old rat, it’s the force which drives me. I have 26,000 rolls of negs in my vault and I’m not done yet. I also have 800 rolls of out of date Reala in the fridge and thus far it tests okay. Reala does not like the freezer from what I’ve heard. My left foot is in a freezer in Georgetown. Visiting hours are Fridays, 2 to 2.15pm.
Jan
On Aug 9, 2012, at 7:11 PM, Stephen Ylvisaker wrote:
Jan,
Welcome back.
Stephen
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