keepin the memory alive
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keepin the memory alive
Although to be driven back upon oneself is an uneasy affair at best, rather like trying to cross a border with borrowed credentials, it seems to me now the one condition necessary to the beginnings of real self-respect. Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The charms that work on others count
... See moreOne of the things we neglect to talk about enough is the fact that a photograph is a made object. Everything about it is a construct, from the organic chemistry in the emulsion on a piece of film to sensor resolution, to the limits of focal length, aperture and shutter speed. The dark room and the computer are places where we refine the early
... See more"It’s so strange how we’re able to carry forward this mystery of personal identity even when our present selves are so different from our future selves and from our past selves most of all. I think a lot about this question of, what is a person? Am I the same person as my childhood self? Sure, we share the same body, but even that body is so... See more
Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
Bogost: We should be careful not to think of these digitally created contexts as somehow lesser than taking what, like a film photo? Or, you know, jotting something down on paper? Those were technologies, too, and we had a different and maybe similar relationship to the apparatuses. Something that was taking part in the construction of the memory
... See moreto not overlook the importance of today´s technology in favor of yesterday´s technology
Ranganath: So, memories themselves come about through connections between neurons that change when we experience something. Literally, there’s a physical change that takes place in our brains after we have all of these experiences. And our brains are constantly reshaping themselves over time.
Now, some things that we experience are more significant
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The ability to look deeply is the root of creativity. To see past the ordinary and mundane and get to what might otherwise be invisible.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Pictorialism, with a small “p” always has been an essential element in the best photographs throughout the medium’s history. And it is still true. It acknowledges that photography is a PICTURE-making process. Pictures are very good at emphasizing feeling; they are very bad at conveying ideas. Ideas need words. If the words or ideas already exist,
... See moreBill Jay • LensWork #83 (The Bill Jay's Best of EndNotes issue)
It is an appearance, or a set of appearances, which has been detached from the place and time in which it first made its appearance and preserved – for a few moments or a few centuries. Every image embodies a way of seeing. Even a photograph. For photographs are not, as is often assumed, a mechanical record. Every time we look at a photograph, we
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