There's an insult there? Precious.
And there's no-one here called Andy :)
Just pointing out that this is a neverending cycle that we're getting
caught up in. As a teenager I did not live in some magical realm of
great live music and HiFi vinyl. I lived in a very ordinary world of
bad garage bands and LoFi Vinyl 45's played on cheap and nasty gear -
plus big 'transistor' radios picking up pirate radio stations very
roughly. I was hungry for the music and less than interested in sine
wave clipping. My brain made the necessary adjustments and
allowances. The quality was in the experience, not the last
percentage of perfection. I'm now listening to fine Jazz through a
nice Dyna valve amp of the same period, ironically - but not vinyl.
Too hard. Too fragile. Too much time investment for miniscule reward.
It's warm enough to let me weep at the power of a great voice.
When young, you are greedy and desperate for life experience and
learn to savour later. You forgive or enjoy the roughness, the
imperfection, the fumble. It's also typical to lose something in the
maturation process. The hunger, the energy, the freshness, the
surprise.
The quality of fast food and fast music now is far beyond anything
conceivable at that time of mine, regardless of how we might decry
it's flaws because we've been around long enough to have known
better. My son just emailed me from London to announced delightedly
that he'd scored tickets to see the Stones at the Astoria - "an
audience of only 2000" he crowed. I was able to reply smugly that it
was around three times the audience (and 10 times the price) of when
I first saw them. They'll be a lot tighter too now, but will there be
the same rush?
Similar arguments thrash around here on 'sharpness' of various lenses
discussing powers of resolution beyond the ability of film or the
human eye to distinguish. But leafing through a copy of August's B&W
magazine (that's the American beautiful one rather than the British
useful one or the Australian startling one) and I was first drawn to
the luminous work of Rocky Schenck, none of whose images could be
described as being sharp in any way. This person has a vision, not a
recording device. An image is a 'thing in itself' rather than the
event it captures. Same goes for music and just about any other
attempt to 'capture.'
So, in the absence of a better aesthetic, I'll get some coffee.
AndrewF
That a very poor insult to a statement of settling for less technology
wise.
I'm growing weary of being crudely labeled Andy
Dan
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From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of andrew fildes
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 3:23 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: mp3 was Re: [OM] negative films, minilabs, etc.........
I think that the real problem with the younger generation is
settling for convenience over quality,
Funny - that's what my parents said about me, and their's about them,
and....
Now, if I can find it here somewhere, I've got a nice quote from
Plato grumbling about the shortcomings of the young generation. Are
we getting a tad crusty here?
AndrewF
(and I thought I was a curmudgeon!)
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