Je traverse où je veux, quand je veux

[cerealjoe]

I just discovered that some of my redscale Diana Mini shots from Canada are now making the rounds on Tumblr. I won't get into the whole debate about whether Tumblr is good or bad, I don't even know if I find it flattering or kind of sad. Sad because I know for certain that there were no comments on that post... and I'm like every emo person out there, I like to know when someone finds something I took interesting. In the end it's not like I'm losing money, I'm not making any from any of my shots in the first place. It just seems that sites like Tumblr could be bringing people together but they actually don't. People just find something they like and they post it there and make a virtual scrapbook that's like just cutting photos out of magazines and sticking them in a notebook... without ever going that extra step of letting the person who took the photo that they think that the work is worth a second glance. Tumblr is weird in the sense that the first time a photo is linked/posted there, the photographer is very properly credited, something I really like because I just hate seing a wonderful photo and wanting to see some of someone's work and there not even being a name for me to google. Then through some miracle the photo is reborn through Tumblr for a second round and then the credit goes *poof* and it's just a photo. There is an old photo of mine that I see pop up once in a while on food related Tumblrs, it's a plain shot of some ice cream and by now the link that used to be associated to my Flickr is long gone. It's still funny though seeing it, I guess those who post hundreds of photos per day can't remember all the stuff they've posted so doubles or triples are inevitable. All this talk because I was reminded of the redscales from Canada while going through these from Paris. I have wanted to take redscales of those red and green street crossing men ever since seeing one one the redscale box... here is how they turned out. "Je traverse où je veux, quand je veux, I am Parisien." And the magic of ~*~Paris~*~ made it so that even with the foggy autumn light there is still something I quite like about how those came out. Sure, that last one wouldn't probably look good as a huge print but it still works for me somehow. On a completely unrelated note, I've had Polnareff's "Je suis un homme" stuck in my head for a while now. Et pourtant je suis une femme...

Comments

[ladibug21.livejournal.com]

That's definitely one of the downsides to the digital age. The amount of photography out there is actually overwhelming sometimes. It makes me sad that photos don't get credit sometimes. I too want to know who the photographer is.

[cerealjoe.livejournal.com]

Yep, especially for professional photographers, when the links to their other works is missing, it could be bad for their business and it seems many peeps don't realise that.

[carnifinda.livejournal.com]

Je crois que c'est pour ça que Tumblr ne me branche pas trop. D'après ce que j'ai pu en voir, personne ne se parle, tout le monde se contente de reposter des trucs, c'est dommage. Moi j'aime le côté communautaire de LJ, les commentaires empilés, tous ces petits trucs qui font qu'on se parle.

Twitter c'est un peu pareil, on raconte des trucs mais une fois sur deux personne ne répond.

Je crois que FAcebook, c'est pas si mal que ça en fin de compte. C'est un peu le bordel mais les gens communiquent, et puis quand on a la flemme ou pas l'inspiration de laisser une réponse, un petit clic sur "like" et ça fait plaisir à tout le monde !

[cerealjoe.livejournal.com]

Tumblr est super pratique pour tout ce qui est fandom picspams et puis c'est tout, du moins de mon point de vue. Plus besoin de cross-poster des centaines de fois les 20 photos de la starlette A ou starlette B, c'est fait automatiquement. Mais pour le reste, l'esprit communautaire n'y ai pas, comme tu l'as dit.

[ammesor0.livejournal.com]

I like the little man on the crosswalk light. i like that they have feet. and his arms are swinging. they seem to have personality. definitely a 'i go where i want' kind of attitude.

[cerealjoe.livejournal.com]

Have you ever seen those ones where the little man moves? They're so awesome! The ones I really hate are the ones with the countdowns, they're unnecessarily stressing people, but the ones just with the moving little guy are the ones that should be everywhere!