heather (a poet) says that every poet has a poem called “camera obscura”
so, for the record, i’ve had the camera (a casio ex-z600) for about a week now and i’m delighted. battery’s good, screen is big and bright, quick on the draw, quick refresh, good flash modes, videos, etc., all that stuff i said. i’ve been carrying it around wherever i go, but in order to avoid “kino eye”, that condition where everything is mediated by the idea “how would i capture this feeling in a photograph?”, i’ve been judicious in snaps. or rather, i’ve been ajudicious– sometimes i just take a picture of almost nothing, and oftentimes wonderful things happen and i just decide to remember it. at the same time i’m trying to be more like matt carroll, who has integrated his digital camera into his being as an extension– he’ll take a picture of a map or a list of phone numbers he needs to look at later, or if he can’t read something far away he’ll snap it and zoom in. the other day i took a picture of some song lyrics me and andrew wrote that we lost once already (for our band “space boyfriends“). pretty satisfying. also i got into that digital camera game where you flap your face around as fast as you can and then take a picture. any ideas for more frivolous digicam games / wastes? videos are still unexplored territory. oh, and now that i have the camera, the HBML webiste is back up “on the regs”.
picture above is my room, from the vantage point of my bed, which as everyone knows is not a bed but a pad on the ground. obviously i still don’t understand how a digital camera actually works, especially in low light– it’s not like the shutter stays open longer, right? holmes says that digital sensors will just get better and better and in a matter of years any photo with a flash will look dated. that’s cool. oh also, i use the free and pretty perfect photodrop application to make tiny gears i can drag a file onto to resize or rotate it. real nice. this has been photo minutia paragraph. we’re your paragraph, bakersfield.
NB: i’m obsessed with tagging, but i just made and destroyed a “minutia” category. because where to split a hair, america?
