But so few people make a good meatloaf these days anyway...
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
>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>
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>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.
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>Shel
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>>[Original Message]
>>From: William Robb
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>>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
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>>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
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>>through, and why people rarely show much interest in snapshots of people
>>they don't know, or places they haven't been.
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