[alt-photo] Re: how to be wrong GLOBALLY !

[Diana Bloomfield]

Too true, Judy.  Thanks. :)

 I did actually have lunch with an old friend of mine today, somebody I've known since junior high.  And while it was fun to see this person again, and so comfortable to be around someone who knew you so long ago, and knew your parents and siblings and your hometown-- and familiar with people, places, and events that no one else I know is familiar with-- I do think you're right about what "real" people typically find interesting.

 

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> On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, Diana Bloomfield wrote:
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>> Though it sounds like he was somewhat correct in that the internet does seem, at once, to pull people together (on a global scale, really) and also isolate us.  I sometimes feel I go for days without actually talking to anybody-- you know, face-to-face.  The sad part is, I don't think I really care.  Now that can't be good, can it?  And how many people actually use a home phone anymore?  The only calls I get on it are solicitations, recordings, and reminders of doctor and haircut appts.  I'm shocked when somebody "real" calls me.
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> But if you face reality Diana, what are those "real" people talking about? Last night's TV show?  The dress they found on sale?  I don't even know what "REAL" people talk about any more (who has time for TV when they need to find out how to titrate wet dichromate?).  Which is to say, as a general rule, "the list" or the equivalent, a group of even "regular" photographers, has more to share that we need and want, and in this field not only is the info constantly multiplying and changing, we can't IN ANY EVENT get all the variables, possibilities AND discoveries, under control...
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> Again, to quote Diana, "the sad part is, I don't think I really care". Exactly. Now you just need to think of it as "the wonderful part" --- I try that myself, and often succeed (mostly). Then , if, in spite of myself, I get restless, ready for human contact (while husband is in his ivory tower, ie., office, for years on end) -- I can go and sit on my front stoop, and nod at passersby, or just stare at them... even talk to neighbors I know.  That of course is one of the advantages of city living (I don't talk here about the bad parts).  But it sure is easier to get up off that stoop and back to work then it is to get off this list (at least today.... sigh).
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> J.
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