civilized ku # 18
Friday, April 20, 2007 at 11:22AM 
Red wheelbarrow with water and shadow • no embiggen - it's a polaroid
Even though this is a Civilized ku, I'm feeling anything but civilized at the moment. I'm sitting here on the Group W bench - along with all kinds of mean nasty ugly looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father rapers! - feeling downright mean and ugly myself. And, just like Arlo, 'I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL.'
Who do I wanna KILL? The bloody sods out there in the software world (Adobe in particular) who always mess with my finely-tuned print parameters when 'upgrading' Photoshop.
I always resist upgrading. There has to be a damn good reason for me to move from one version of an app to the 'next best thing'. If I have something that is working for my needs, I hang onto it with a near death-grip. I never want to let go because I know the pure agony I'll face with an upgrade. And that agony is almost always associated with color management.
I just upgraded to CS2, not CS3, CS2. Why? Becasue CS was working just fine, thank you very much. BUT, because of client issues - most are using the CS2 Suite - I have been unable to open files (InDesign, Illustrator) which were created in CS2 in CS. So..... a couple weeks ago upgrading was inevitible.
It was not until this AM that I got to "testing' print output from PhotoShop. And, of course, nothing works the way it used to. My test prints look like they were made by an idiot. Now, I know I'll eventually get this figured out - I always do. Nevertheless, 'I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL.'
gravitas et nugalis
I'm better now. I've taken my meds and things are looking all bright and cheery. My prints are in the ballpark and all that's left to do is to find the right seat.
Reader Comments (3)
this is all I can picture everytime gravitas freaks out like this...
ahh - posted this yesterday...
The Red Wheelbarrow
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
by William Carlos Williams
(can I borrow your photo... :-) )
http://photo-muse.blogspot.com/2007/04/red-wheelbarrow.html
thanks Tim, and help yourself to the photo