Gawd yes! (remembering slide shows of certain friends' vacations) There was ~always~ one or the other standing rigidly in front of some tourist attraction or scene. And the narrative, with every slide, would be "This is Cathy standing in front of ..." "Here's Ron in front of ..." as if we, the captive viewers, didn't know who these people were <sigh>
Now we get a DVD movie that's more of the same, only with music in the background and repetitious dissolves and fades. Just a more high-tech version of the slide show. With the slide shows, we'd have to visit their house and usually get dinner beforehand. Now we just get a disk in the mail. Technology marches on - creativity remains stagnant - dinner disappears. Shel > [Original Message] > From: William Robb > For most people, photographs are memory joggers. They don't really want to > see the person or the place depicted, they want to remember the fun that was > had at that place, with that person. The photograph is the tool used to > remind them. > This is why slide shows of other people's vacations are so very hard to sit > through, and why people rarely show much interest in snapshots of people > they don't know, or places they haven't been. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
