The Digital Devolution
Published June 10, 2011We received something interesting in the mail recently. A young couple that my roommate performed the marriage ceremony for recently had their first baby and sent us a family photo.
You know, a photo? Taken on film, developed with chemicals and printed on photo paper? One of those.
I haven’t seen an in-the-flesh photo for a while but seeing the gorgeous young family in print reminded me of finding a box full of old, faded B & W and sepia ancestral photos in my dad’s closet when he passed on. There was a picture of my grandfather who I had never met. I sat for a few moments looking at the tenuous connection with my unknown past and thanked my father’s obsession with photography that brought it down through the ages to my hands.
As much as I love the convenience and power of digital photography I’m pretty certain that my grandchildren aren’t going to stumble across a box full of 50 year old backup hard drives and be able to view my photo collection.
The Chris Blog
Published June 9, 2011Do I really need a blog? Probably not.
And yet over the years I have had a variety of thoughts and experiences that I’ve felt would make interesting reading on a blog. Since I have a website already I might as well use it as a blog. And so… here’s a blog. You can, no doubt, so the flawless logic in my reasoning.
And for my first blog entry… have I ever mentioned how much I dislike the word “blog?” There is just nothing graceful about the word. Too close to slog, flog and grog. For some reason I always think of “blog” as referring to writing that unrefined and tedious by its very nature.
But I highly respect the artform at a whole. There are some excellent and well thought out blogs to be had these days. With any luck this will eventually be numbered among their company.
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