Music as analogy for LF photography

[Bernice Loui]

Silent films and theater organs...
~Why?

Then came Edison "talkies".
~Why?


Bernice

[Tin Can]

Technology progression

Stills, to silent movie to talkies

Alway better tech

Soon all data will just enter our minds

My dreams already seem like a movie, I fall asleep easily to see the show

I wake with new ideas

Elon says we only have 12 years to Grok

[Vaughn]

Grok -- I have not heard that for awhile...Heinlein eventually was embarassed by that book. Too afar in left field for his conservative soul. I loved it -- I'll re-read it (again) one of these days.

[Tin Can]

I like the word 'Grok' as it is self descriptive, simple and unforgettable

also a 4 letter word/curse

Grok -- I have not heard that for awhile...Heinlein eventually was embarassed by that book. Too afar in left field for his conservative soul. I loved it -- I'll re-read it (again) one of these days.

[Michael R]

Technology progression

Stills, to silent movie to talkies

Alway better tech

Soon all data will just enter our minds

My dreams already seem like a movie, I fall asleep easily to see the show

I wake with new ideas

Elon says we only have 12 years to Grok

I’m sick and tired of that ghoul and his pearls of “wisdom”.

[Vaughn]

I’m sick and tired of that ghoul and his pearls of “wisdom”.

'Elon" and "Grok" go together like loons and Canucks!

[Mark Sampson]

"Elon" was once Kodak's trade name for metol, the developer ingredient. Just staying on-topic, sort of.

[LabRat]

Anyone who believes the old saying "there's no such thing as bad publicity" will run out of luck someday... ;-)

Steve K

[Michael R]

"Elon" was once Kodak's trade name for metol, the developer ingredient. Just staying on-topic, sort of.

Yes indeed, and this jerk gives the Kodak Elon a bad name!

[pdmoylan]

Yep, I totally get this. Often when I pitch my tent near a river whose strong current is moving sub-surface rocks so they knock and click against each other, I think I’m hearing human voices – like a group of people speaking a little too far away for their words to be intelligible. Quite unsettling. Especially when you’re alone at night in the middle of a wilderness. Helps me appreciate Native American myths about river spirits.

I am prone to being opened minded about the spirit in nature, having used meditation throughout my adult life (where you learn to shed fear of aloneness), and studied nature's music in all of its variety, "the winds among the reeds".

There is a kinship I have with Barry Lopez (met him in Princeton in the 80s), having read most of his works (Arctic Dreams and Horizons the most well known), and with his words he explores and attempts to bridge an understanding of the human mind with a complete awareness of the natural landscape and its inhabitants. A favorite poet, Yeats, explored throughout his lifetime, the world of the human imagination in the natural world (The Wandering Song of Aengus, for example). Indeed, there are many sounds in nature that I have attuned to, being a trained musician and with innate awareness of intervals. You learn the bird songs, then their chips, habits, and you find yourself in the midst of a completely unimaginable world of sounds and colors, something one can experience with meditation (noone needs psilocybin etc). I have had what no longer friends have laughingly quipped as "paranormal" events related directly to nature. One should be cautious to whom one shares these extraordinary awarnesses. One need only place their ear near flowing water, and hear the voices of the river speaking.

Along with these musical events, I found further evidence of why indigenous peoples are so secure in their beliefs systems in a spirit world. I attach one photo taken where faces, animals, devils, human forms appear to those who are tuned in (this is one of many). One might dismiss them as innocuous coincidences, but one might equally embrace them as symbols of truth and beauty, and the ineluctable capacity of human awareness amid what might otherwise be considered chaos to a rational mind.