I finished Camera Lucida. Barthes's main idea is that photographs are flat, unreadable, frozen in time, and communicate only the fact that what they depict once existed; they don't say that it was true, only that it was once there. It's all slightly vague, like his division between studium (being mildly interested in a photo) and punctum (that ( Read more... )

I do not intend to do any Christmas shopping today ( Read more... )

No more super 8 processing in Europe. Although there's still a place in Kansas. I guess there's always the Pixelvision, but one now costs rather more than a cameraphone ( Read more... )