Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]compression of the Sitzfleisch also makes the wallet thinner, so we're back where we started. Still unable to afford a new Leica lens. The ASPH lenses in combo with the M8 and M9, which many luggers use, sometimes border on the-almost-too-sharp to my eye. Except in the widest (big landscape/seascape) views they can lack subtlety -- there is a tendency for the more intimate pictures to look as if they were processed by an ad agency for placement in Time. (I keep thinking they would look astounding in black and white however; perhaps Luis will fill that gap now that he's gallavanting around with his M8.... ) The pictures these newer lenses take of clouds and the sky's infinitely various colors are amazing -- but those are soft things. The hard edges of the world seem with these lenses to be harder even than they are: as in cinema and other art forms, there's a possibility we've reached the natural end of the mimetic impulse in art, a 10,000 year progression -- in that we can now do reality better than reality can do itself. Which makes the experience just a little pornographic. Just some Sunday ruminations, with fleisch all too well sitzed. On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com>wrote: > > On Mar 7, 2010, at 7:57 AM, Howard Ritter wrote: > > > Not only did he address Relativity, but he also praised the value of > "Sitzfleisch" > > ?just what it sounds like, sit-flesh, for perching on while doing Deep > Thinking? > > as an essential component of creativity. > > compression of the Sitzfleisch likely allows better perfusion of the brain, > > > right doctor? > > > Steve > > > > > I'm taking his advice. He always was my intellectual hero... > > > > ?howard > > > > On Mar 7, 2010, at 9:55 AM, Steve Barbour wrote: > > > >> > >> On Mar 7, 2010, at 5:05 AM, Howard Ritter wrote: > >> > >>> Rabs, I thought my wallet was getting thinner as the years went by, > too. > >>> Turned out it's my butt getting thicker! > >> > >> > >> that's what Einstein was talking about... > >> > >> > >> Steve > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >