Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well Mikko, I say, if you want to show a photo in which someone is smoking, show away - it's your art. And I say this as a vehement, nay, pretty fanatic, anti-smoker with severe chronic asthma who never smoked a cigarette in his life but who grew up with two parents who smoked heavily. I am very much opposed to smoking in movies - which are, with some exceptions, commerce, not art. But if you happen to take a photo that shows someone smoking, and it's a good photo - display away. Besides, I doubt that 10 million impressionable young folks are going to be checking out your webpage. ;-) B. D. BTW - Don't forget that having the untrammeled right to smoke in Finland carries with it the untrammeled inevitability of high rates of lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema, and other diseases a couple of decades down the road. Mikko Kalavainen wrote: > > Hello. > > >Mark Rabiner wrote > >But Mikko you don't want to influence those young up and comers to have > >cigarettes sticking out the bottom of their Leicas, Mikko! > >They might think that's what they have to do to have such fantastic > creative > >energy as you do! > and > >Doug Herr wrote: > >ALL comments? Hmmmm..... I like the photos, and I'm looking > >forward to more but (off-topic) having seen my father-in-law decline > >from good health to today's funeral in a matter of months due to lung > >cancer, I suggest you lose the smokes. > > Oooh boy. I didn't think *anyone* would comment on that one... It's > strange, because here in Finland we still get to smoke quite freely, in > bars etc. Ofcourse there are the required-by-law no-smoking tables in > restaurants, but otherwise... Don't you Americans have some tighter laws > about public smoking, at least in some parts of the country? > I'll see what I can do. I will put out my cigarette if someone asks me > to in real life, so why wouldn't I do it in the Inertnet also? If I can > find another picture, then why not... > > >trying to figure out which glasses goes with which M6 the best for his > own > >mirror self portrait for his website. And which shirt. > >Instead of a ciggie will have a side of beef hanging out of his mouth. > Mark, don't you remember? Glasses and Leica don't mix. Mind you, I'll > gladly take an good piece of meat from a bull, rather than a cigarette. > Nothing beats meat. :) > > -mikko- > http://www.geocities.com/kalavami > mikko.kalavainen@mobiili.net > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html