civilized ku # 347 ~ connections
Friday, January 15, 2010 at 10:33AM 
Painted gourd vase and dried flowers • click to embiggenCONNECTION # 1 - While perusing some of the Refrigerator Art picture maker's pictures, I came across this entry, titled Profligatography, in which the Refrigerator Art picture maker reflects upon the notion that:
Compared to the older, chemical-based process, digital photography places no rational limit on the number of pictures that may be taken.
A notion that I have addressed on more than one occasion - see Here and Here - and have, in my worlds, named as discursive promiscuity. However, the Refrigerator Art picture maker, in his entry, goes me one better by giving a name to those engaged in discursive promiscuity / profligatography - the profligatographers.
Good stuff, that.
That said, I am wondering how many of you consider yourself to be profligatographers who are engaged in discursive promiscuity.
CONNECTION # 2 - As a result of my recommendation, re: the work of the Refrigerator Art picture maker, now known to us as Tyler Monson (thanks to Martin Doonan), I was checking out Martin's blog where on I came across his Hyporeality entry which was spawned by my Landscapist entry, the hyperreal / over-sharpened digital pictures which gave him "an idea for a something of an exercise in the opposite direction. At the weekend I went out to take photos that aren't sharp, in fact decidedly out of focus."
To date, Martin has posted a number of interesting hyporeality pictures. Check them out - they're kinda neat.
Reader Comments (1)
Profligacy = reckless wastefulness, wanton extravagance. There's nothing to waste in the virtual world. You haven't used any resources other than your time and that passes no matter how you "spend" it.
I don't see us as particularly extravagant if we press the shutter release more often than before. I think most of the images will get consigned to oblivion anyhow. Right now I am enjoying taking many images of the same subject and stitching them together to make larger, more detailed, images. Like the man said I photograph to see how things look in a photograph! Some look more pleasing than others and those are the ones I keep.