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Digging, it refers to DJ’s and Turntablists going through crates of records, looking for samples and other inspiration to create their music \/ artform.<\/p>\n
I guess that’s why I’ve been on\u00a0my vintage theme.<\/p>\n
When people want to get into photography, they always ask me what camera to get.\u00a0 It’s a bit more complicated than that…\u00a0 Just like in any field, hobby, or obsession, there are different levels to it.<\/p>\n
Not to pigeonhole everyone that ever picked up a camera but, some only want to take romantic, dreamy photos, start a business and be done with it.\u00a0 Some don’t go beyond that, and that’s fine.\u00a0 All of us in some way are working in the proverbial\u00a0restaurants, waiting tables until the screenplay hits, the song goes #1, or platinum # of views.\u00a0 In that case, buy this particular Model X of this brand, and the same\u00a0lenses as the popular people and off you go.<\/p>\n
Some get into it as a way of meeting good looking people.\u00a0 There are some that just want to take images just for the sake of it because they find it enjoyable and they have a certain amout of talent for it.\u00a0 Then, there are those that really get into it, which I don’t see too many of, the kind that really take a liking to the whole idea of photography, the consuming passion to archive and document moments and memories, both mundane and amazing.\u00a0 I would have to say I’m all the above, some more unmentioned inbetween, but more of the latter.\u00a0\u00a0Not too many\u00a0want to be that kind of photographer, the kind that also enjoys the history of photography, the dreaming of gear, both used and not yet created, that could further help progress the artform.<\/p>\n
In doing my own digging, looking for\u00a0functioning gear that I could use, or just collect and appreciate on an aesthetic level, it made me\u00a0realize the\u00a0unfulfilled dreams\u00a0in just about every facet of every person or family’s lives.\u00a0 I know I’m writing this from the viewpoint of a dwindling and dying Americana, but hopefully this resonates with some of the rest of you.\u00a0 It’s been this way for quite some time, products of industry, products of just living, that end up\u00a0as junk somewhere.<\/p>\n
One of my alltime favorite artists, DJ Shadow,\u00a0expressed it right, when you’re digging for records, you’re browsing through stacks of broken dreams, and it’s a humbling experience.\u00a0 Even in this day and age, getting your face on a record cover, or image in a book or magazine, that’s still pretty bigtime stuff, but half of\u00a0those people\u00a0didn’t make it to critical mass, they just faded away, completing the cycle of starting off small, getting known, and then\u00a0slipping back to obscurity.<\/p>\n
These old cameras, somewhere, sometime back in the past, somebody bought it for one of endless reasons–dreams of becoming a professional,\u00a0aspirations of becoming published, or just\u00a0the boyish desire\u00a0of putting into physical form somebody that they like or adore.<\/p>\n
So what are we doing all this for, putting our stuff online, collecting people left and right, when we don’t know how many of us will be here when the lights finally go off.\u00a0 At least the Coke bottles and\u00a0sundry items in the antique stores are physical things, making their mark in time.\u00a0 I don’t see too many hard drives being in these antique bins one day.\u00a0 The literal bits of our modern lives\u00a0unaccessible\u00a0or viewable to\u00a0even our future selves.<\/p>\n
Being a modern artist\/photographer, I think\u00a0about it a lot, the futility of\u00a0creating work for non existent walls, and\u00a0non existent\u00a0money to pay the bills.\u00a0 I have to remind myself of moments that\u00a0I actually\u00a0care about, and what prompted\u00a0me to want to snap the shutter, and keep that with\u00a0me the\u00a0next time\u00a0I’m turned down for a job or bomb an interview.\u00a0\u00a0It’s\u00a0the passion of just creating, the drive that you can’t put down on a fake resume, that gives validity to any of these silly creative exercises.\u00a0 At least that’s what I tell myself, but it’s getting harder by the day.<\/p>\n
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