Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Why is it that there is absolutely no more space in this world for poets and dreamers ????

I miss the times when I kept note books, looked at pictures with a lupe, pulled out dusty files to reasearch, kept my negatives in boxes, retouched photographs with a tiny brush and ink.......

Now one has to be computer genius, a banking wizard, a negotiator, a diplomat, be in excellent health, preferably good looking and knowlegable about current affairs.

I HATE computers and now my whole work is on a god damn computer. I have 3 DAED hard discs in the back of my drawer,with months and months of work them.

Finally decided to buy an extra hard drive in order to store everything because if my computer crashes, I might as well eat rat poison and die !!!!

To install the bloody thing, you already need to be a genius before even opening the box. Then there's a CD that goes with it and it has about 30 pages of writing in a language that I don't even understand !!!! Why can't they just have a printed manual saying "hey airhead! plug that god damn thing to your computer, push button x and then click on y, drag z and drop it in w" ????

WTF !!!!

just needed to rant. sorry :(

I am happy that age is behind me....Computer had opened a vista far bigger than anybody ever anticipated...I can take my laptop to thailand, bhutan, bangladesh, okinawa, baja californea...south africa...anywhere in the world and archive edit pics...write articles and be touch with the world


Only thing wrong with PC is the monitor stings my eyes if I look at them too long...and carpal tunnel... :(

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Well computer is no good when you make a woodcut, paint a canvas...or do some little sculptures....

thankfully..those acts still has to be done manually

And yes add cooking....pruning your garden...cleaning your fishtank...and walking the dog...

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How many GBs you files are? can't you buy a DVD writer and write them in blank DVDs? they are usually plug and play..one disk holds as much as 8 GBs

Well yes aram, my laptop goes with me all over the place too. But only if I could have the patience to instal the hard disk. And of course I use Mac and nobody else does, so I have to figure it all out by myself :(

on a brighter note, I discovered nabaztag today :p

I guess you can add me to the list of artists who have joyfully embraced geekdom. Computer technology may be a little more complex to begin with, but it offers so much more than traditional media.....hence the complexity.

I love computer technology. Because of computers, I went from being a starving canvas artists with few prospects (like the other zillion other starving artists), to someone highly employable in a range of computer-based artistic skills.... film making, audio production, animation, graphic design, web design.....even computer repairs. I've actually managed to pull decent wages for the past decade, and I now derive my income entirely from computer art, web contruction, and design.

Hey, it beats working at mcDonalds and its FUN!

Hey, Loucine (Bodhi Tree), you sound like you're having a day like I had the other day! Carve a little niche out for what you love. Hang in there, it get's better!!!

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To install the bloody thing, you already need to be a genius before even opening the box. Then there's a CD that goes with it and it has about 30 pages of writing in a language that I don't even understand !!!! Why can't they just have a printed manual saying "hey airhead! plug that god damn thing to your computer, push button x and then click on y, drag z and drop it in w" ????

WTF !!!!

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Lucine!! That is funny! and exactly how I felt!!!

Haha. You should talk to my gf... she lost everything she had on her computer a year and a half ago because the hard drive died. I bought her a computer off e-bay (she couldn't get it because... well, she didn't have a computer to get onto e-bay to buy it!) that she's still using now, but it keeps freezing and she's got a new hard drive ready to install. I can't wait for the phone call when she's going mad trying to get it to work. :p And, Aline, she uses a Mac too... she swears by them. I do like using her computer, PC's are a bit more clunky.

My computer isn't exactly great... if I turn it off I have severe problems turning it back on again. i.e. it won't. :rolleyes: But then I fiddle about, change plug sockets, etc, and eventually it starts running again, after I've gone a whole day without being able to use it. :eek: My computer stays on permanently now, because I'm petrified it just won't come back on one day. I have so much stuff on it that I would be gutted to lose.

I'm still old school myself.

Instead of blogging, I keep a handwritten journal, writing in spiral notebooks.

I keep addresses and phone numbers written on cards in a Rolodex rather than entrusting them to a PDA or PC.

When people want me to download something or deal with a PDF, I just want to say, "stick the *&&%#@! thing in an envelope and mail it to me, OK!"

I don't pay bills online, I don't bank online and I don't have direct deposit. I want to have sole access to my bank account, thank you kindly.

I still use a typewriter from time to time, like to bang out forms, labels, et cetera.

Holly crap Dave ! I was in Moscow last week doing a photo research for a book. I thought I was going to find myself plunged in boxes of negatives and prints like the good old days, but noooooooooooooo

They had scanned everything and wherever I went, they handed me a dvd with all the names of the files written in bloody Russian. Fortunately I know the Russian alphabet, so I could figure out how to find the files. Bloody hell !!! I was sooooooooooo disappointed :(

So Rob, if you know how to use a Mac, does that mean that I can call you and you'll help me install my extra hard drive ? :p

But everything is the same, I buy a new super phone and it has an encyclopedia of instructions that goes with it. Of course I give up and use it only to dilal a number and answer when it rings (by the way it rings in such a weird way that it takes me tme to realise that it's my phone and not a street musician playing outside my window)
Then someone tells me "gee, you have this phone, do you use the option that sends you a signal on your mobile while you're in Ouagadogou in case Mick Jagger calles you"?

Well, somedays back I visited an Asian University library

Everything spanking...shelves and books...(and I am allergic fresh paint smell) chairs..tables...banks of computers..felt a bit depressed...untill I stumbled into the journal section..

Oh joy....it's all chaos...

journals written in 17 language (and better 8 different scripts) strewn haphazardly....

and in one cobwebbed shelf I came in to a stack of Gentlemen's Magazine...beginning at 1742! (at the time of Jacobite rebellion)...and ended at 1833

I read through American Revolutionary War....General Howes preparing to leave London to quell those "seditous rebels" (Insurgents?)....eyewitness account of French Revolution....Edmund Burke's letter

Sneeze*...it was plain heaven....browsing through the lot...woodcut maps...hand-composed, hand printed on hand made paper, hand bound volumes....200-250 years ago those journals must came by sailship to some mercantile post in Asia...

how much longing had been poured over those yellowed pages....How many fingers have touched them...in two centuries...Oh God...

I felt blessed...touching those journals...

WOW aram !!! that's exactly it !!!!!

I remember my first trips to Moscow, they used to hand me boxes of prints and negatives of a photographer who died decades ago. I would go through them, find small notes scribbled on envelopes and ask to have them translated. Pictures of the WW2 that have never been edited or seen by anyone else, group photographs of politicians with a few faces here and there erased with black ink because all of a sudden uncle Stalin decided that he's not a good member or the Party anymore.....

It felt like discovering an Egyptian king's tomb for the first time, each time I went through these boxes!! and now it's all on a bloody computer screen :(

If you saw Good Will Hunting you may remember these lines:

"Sean: So if I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo, you know a lot about him. Life's work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientations, the whole works, right? But I'll bet you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling; seen that.

I ask you about women, you'd probably give me a syllabus about your personal favorites. (I edited here) But you can't tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy. You're a tough kid. And I'd ask you about war, you'd probably throw Shakespeare at me, right, "once more unto the breach dear friends." But you've never been near one. You've never held your best friend's head in your lap, watch him gasp his last breath looking to you for help. I'd ask you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you. Who could rescue you from the depths of hell. And you wouldn't know what it's like to be her angel, to have that love for her, be there forever, through anything, through cancer. And you wouldn't know about sleeping sitting up in the hospital room for two months, holding her hand, because the doctors could see in your eyes, that the terms "visiting hours" don't apply to you. You don't know about real loss, 'cause it only occurs when you've loved something more than you love yourself."

So Rob, if you know how to use a Mac, does that mean that I can call you and you'll help me install my extra hard drive ? :p


Gulp....

What have I let myself in for! No, not really, I know hardly anything about computers. I can manage to use them and figure things out by trial and error (mostly error), but something tells me that installing a hard drive requires a bit more than that!