People think of the dumbest things to be proud of. First there's the spelling bee, which is, as I have previously mentioned in my articles, the dumbest contest in the world next to breaking the record for eating the most number of shitburgers (if you dont know what shitburgers are, go ask the Germans, and don't forget to mention shay-zer)
Then there's having tall kids. Parents act like they actually did something to make their kids taller. What, did you make him masturbate more often than other kids so he became taller? Are you giving him elephant growth hormones? No? THEN SHUT THE F*** UP and admit that it's just genes you inherited from your dinosaur ancestors you lumbering sloth. (and what the hell is up with people thinking that flogging the dolphin will make you taller? If that's so true, why are Asians smaller with all their hentai? They even have three storey shops dedicated to their sick sad shows. They should be giants by now if that were true.)
Then, there are those hobbies people are proud of that are so f'ed up, they just had to turn it into a form of art. Case in point? Photography.
Think about it. Photography is just one button press away from just "looking at things." I take it that since I can press a button. And *oh dang I'm proud of this one* I can "look at things" with my eyes, anybody can do it too. Seriously, nobody wants to see the sunsets from behind a monitor that we all know will render us sterile someday. Nobody wants to see your shots of cars passing by a busy highway. You're eating up webspace. Do us a favor, next time you're taking pictures of cars, make sure you get that "approaching at high speed" feel to it.
Speaking of shoot, I want to shoot the asshole who invented digital cameras. Because back when film was expensive to develop, people took time to choose what they wanted to take pictures of. Nowadays, taking pictures of anything from vomit to people making out has become art, worst bit of it is that assholes form all over the world go online, make photoblogs and call it their f'ing "hard work"
Listen, assholes. It's not hard work to press a button, plug a usb drive and plug a few more buttons without even utilizing 2% of your brain's mass. You're using a machine that already does everything for you. You dont even have to focus the lens anymore. You dont need skill to use it. I'm betting women using a vibrator use up more skill points than some schmoe taking pictures of beaches and prostitute-looking friends doing artsy poses.
Nobody ever calls using their cellphone "art". Because it's not. It's called using a cellphone. And the same goes for "using your camera." I bet that people who think they can do so well in photography say so because they don't have anything else to excel in.
Either that or they're just douchebags.
I so hate people who want to become douchebags.
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WTF RED?!
I kinda know a photographer pare, I'mma make him read this.
LOL @ that.
Lol. Yeah, the advent of digital cameras did remove the art from photography. It used to be an art, you know. "Catching the moment", having proper lighting, and focusing correctly all at the same time used to make having a great picture so difficult. But now, it's just point and click. Damn, engineers seemed to rob the world of some artforms. How about programming and writing? They used to be an art you know. But hell, with the attack of "professional" high level languages and word processors, we only need to use a lesser percentage of our brains, right? You may even add "making music" to this list.
Point is, technology is making the general populace think less and less, shifting the burden of thought to the design engineers. So if we measure what art is supposed to be by the amount of neurons the creator triggered, then there really are very few artists in our world today. However, if art is to be measured by the amount activity going on in the conceiver's amigdala and how that is shown in his work, then you can see a lot of art everywhere. It's just a matter of appreciating them and seeing the heart put into them.
No offense on posting an anonymous comment. It's just that I don't want to create a blogger account in here just to make a "signed" comment. d=
@mr. anonymous
you can use "other" next time ;)
By rule of thumb, any thing that takes longer to appreciate than to make isn't worth my time.
I want to forward this post to someone who said in one of the cosplay forums that he has found his 'calling' in cosplay photography.
He should read this.
I forgot to add that he planned to make it his career too.
Maybe he should take a peek at actual photographer's lives. Not the ones whose work you see in galleries, but those who work for newspapers and mass media.
XD
I kinda get the feeling I'll be taking a lot more flak for this post compared my other rants. Hahaha.
Lagot ka Red! XD
By rule of thumb, any thing that takes longer to appreciate than to make isn't worth my time.
-- Ditto. ^_^
photography rocks if you try to capture bullets at 1/10000th of a second.
^ Approaching you, of course.
I kinda get the feeling I'll be taking a lot more flak for this post compared my other rants. Hahaha.
well, duh. oversimplifying things tend to do that. :P
i agree with you about the digital cams. somehow, they've "watered down" the art of photography. and photo blogs! ugh! i've seen a few of them that are really good, but most of them are indeed crap. and the sheer number of people who are now suddenly "into photography" and feel artsy and stuff make me wanna puke sometimes.
i still consider photography as a form of art, and respect those who are really serious in experimenting and furthering their techniques in the field. unfortunately, most people nowadays consider themselves artists just because they own a camera.
Perfectly said.
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