Saturday, November 18, 2006
Duck Figital Origins
Duck Figital was coined from all the Buck Fush bumper stickers I saw during the 2004 election. I thought that the 2 made sense with each other. Bush is devastating to the United States of America and the Constitution of the United States of America, and digital photography is just as devastating to the artistic endeavors of photographic artists everywhere.
Both the Bush administration and Digital photography LOVE big business, and don't mind taking the little guy out, even though the little guy is much more intelligent and inspiring than that of big business. Neither one takes the time out to learn more from the littly guy, nor plays a sympathetic role in nurturing creation or individuality.
Climbing the digital ladder means that artistic tools are being taken away. Never in the history of art have tools like paint materials, sculpting materials, pottery materials and the like, been taken away from artists so that they can no longer work in their chosen medium. You must understand that digital is an entirely different medium than film is. Light hits a computer chip a hell of a lot differently than it does chemicals on film. Digital can only try and mimic film. It's a "monkey see monkey do" sort of medium.
I'm sure digital serves it's purpose when you need to get that photo over from Iraq of the guy being beheaded in 2 minutes so you can be the first photographer to cover the story, but what the hell do artists need digital for? Why am I seeing people who call themselves photographic artists using digital? WHAT IS THE BENEFIT???
To be continued....
Both the Bush administration and Digital photography LOVE big business, and don't mind taking the little guy out, even though the little guy is much more intelligent and inspiring than that of big business. Neither one takes the time out to learn more from the littly guy, nor plays a sympathetic role in nurturing creation or individuality.
Climbing the digital ladder means that artistic tools are being taken away. Never in the history of art have tools like paint materials, sculpting materials, pottery materials and the like, been taken away from artists so that they can no longer work in their chosen medium. You must understand that digital is an entirely different medium than film is. Light hits a computer chip a hell of a lot differently than it does chemicals on film. Digital can only try and mimic film. It's a "monkey see monkey do" sort of medium.
I'm sure digital serves it's purpose when you need to get that photo over from Iraq of the guy being beheaded in 2 minutes so you can be the first photographer to cover the story, but what the hell do artists need digital for? Why am I seeing people who call themselves photographic artists using digital? WHAT IS THE BENEFIT???
To be continued....
