Topic: Hello!

[gothamtomato]

I guess, since I already jumped into the conversation, I should actually introduce myself: I'm a photographer and former picture editor in NYC. I'm glad I've discovered this group (through B&W Magazine).

I shoot only film, will always shoot film (the digital evangelists drive me insane). I do, mainly, hand colored B&W photography, and some transfers as well. I'm just getting into 4x5. For several years it seemed a bit gloomy, and I was always joking (sadly) that I plan to go down with the ship. However, I'm happy to see that film (& traditional paper) sales have stopped declining and are going up again. That was the best news to hear at the recent Photo Expo here.

I have however, recently bought 2 scanners, to scan my transparancy film & finished prints, (for clients that need them delivered that way), but I'm still learning how to use them. Slow going there.

Anyway, I'm happy that there is this little community out there.

[This-is-damion]

welcome!  glad to have you aboard.

[LT]

I echo Damion's message - welcome

[eyecaramba]

Welcome.  I like tomatoes.

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[Skorj]

Welcome indeed, and thanks for your contributions too. Look forward to seeing some of your work perhaps too...

Skorj.

[moominsean]

welcome!


is there an echo in here?

[artpunk]

Welcome gothamtomato! Great to have you here.

...welcome...welcome...welcome

Echo Sean? No I don't think so...so...so...so...so...so

 

[Aline]

Welcome Aboard....
If you are from gotham, I'm sure you pronounce it "toe-mah-toe", just like my mother-in-law who lives on 72nd and Lex!
And Gordon, do you have an appropriate and fabulous image for EVERY thread...unblieveable!

[rdbkorn]

Glad you joined us, gothamtomato. I'm also just getting into 4X5, just processed my first batch of negatives yesterday. And two of the four actually turned out...if you don't count the scratches from my clumsy attempts to get film out of holders and loaded onto reel...

[Susan B.]

Welcome!

[eyecaramba]

No, Aline.  I don't have an image for every occasion.  This tomato image just happened to align with my recent expansive investigation into urban and culturally reproduced tomatoes of a non-agrarian nature:

Tomatoes:  Post-Art in the Age of Symbiotic Vegetative Reproduction

The flux creates, the chaos reproduces. In the trans-gender artifice, art objects are deprecations of the iterations of the flux -- a flux that uses the chaos as a zeitgeist to enmesh ideas, patterns, and emotions. With the devolution of the electronic environment and the advent of these cherry red protagonists, the flux is superseding a point where it will be free from the chaos to transcend immersions into the ejaculations of the delphic artifice. Work of a Post-Post Tomato style in the Age of Hillybilly Hydroponics contains 10 minimal flash engines (also refered to as "AI modules") that enable the user to make engorged audio/visual compositions.

measuring chains, constructing realities
putting into place forms
a matrix of illusion and disillusion
a strange attracting force
so that a seduced reality will be able to spontaneously feed on it

This work investigates the nuances of tomato modulations through the use of jumpcut motion and close-ups which emphasize the Symbiotic nature of digital media. I will explore abstract and sublime fruit v. vegetable motifs to describe the idea of hyper-real artifice. Using catalytic loops, non-linear narratives, and allegorical images as patterns, and so will create meditative environments which suggest the expansion of monoculture... and the ultimately chaste benignity of our universally ripe, red, and beloved fruit friend.

[rdbkorn]

Love the satire Gordon...scary thing is I kind of understand it.

[LT]

Tomatoes:  Post-Art in the Age of Symbiotic Vegetative Reproduction

The flux creates, the chaos reproduces. In the trans-gender artifice, art objects are deprecations of the iterations of the flux -- a flux that uses the chaos as a zeitgeist to enmesh ideas, patterns, and emotions. With the devolution of the electronic environment and the advent of these cherry red protagonists, the flux is superseding a point where it will be free from the chaos to transcend immersions into the ejaculations of the delphic artifice. Work of a Post-Post Tomato style in the Age of Hillybilly Hydroponics contains 10 minimal flash engines (also refered to as "AI modules") that enable the user to make engorged audio/visual compositions.

measuring chains, constructing realities
putting into place forms
a matrix of illusion and disillusion
a strange attracting force
so that a seduced reality will be able to spontaneously feed on it

This work investigates the nuances of tomato modulations through the use of jumpcut motion and close-ups which emphasize the Symbiotic nature of digital media. I will explore abstract and sublime fruit v. vegetable motifs to describe the idea of hyper-real artifice. Using catalytic loops, non-linear narratives, and allegorical images as patterns, and so will create meditative environments which suggest the expansion of monoculture... and the ultimately chaste benignity of our universally ripe, red, and beloved fruit friend.

Elgordo - I'm worried.  I've had people admitted to hospital for less.

Think calm thoughts, and it'll all be ok - now how's that puppy of your getting along?

[artpunk]

See what happens when you hang around here for too long gothamtomato? But rest assured we have professionals standing by to help if you ever reach the stage Gordon has gotten to. Unfortunately for a few of us, and speaking for myself personally....we are beyond help!

 

[gothamtomato]

See what happens when you hang around here for too long gothamtomato? But rest assured we have professionals standing by to help if you ever reach the stage Gordon has gotten to.
 

That's reassuring.

But can I get that help on NHS even though I'm in Gotham?

(And thanks for the welcomes!)