Jack Shares Things

“Technology lets us do things faster and more efficiently; why would we use that newfound free time to do more and more of the same old thing?  I’m not just talking about smarter consumption of content like Johnson is– I’m also saying, fuck consumption.”

I’ve been thinking along these lines a lot lately. Something’s gotta happen.

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In 2004, during one of my many film-digital-film waffle sessions, I picked up an old Stylus Epic for use as my “every day carry” camera.

Many of the cameras I buy for specific reasons turn out to have been wishful thinking. Not so the Epic. I still carry it in my jacket pocket every day. Most of the lettering is worn off, but it still works great. And it’s still the easiest and fastest pocket camera I’ve every used. It has a very nice lens and would be quite cheap to replace. I see no reason I won’t be carrying one of these indefinitely.

“That our definition of activity has to come to include endlessly creating and replying to micro-messages and refreshing feeds, that productivity now means evaluating and adopting the latest-and-greatest app that will let you scan more messages faster, push more bits around or check off more items, is troubling.”

I know I’m addicted to the internet and have learned to function this way. Also troubling.

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I love this photo. It’s from a set of early 1900s negatives I picked up at a garage sale. The expression on the man’s face makes me smile every time I look at it. I like it so much in fact that I’ve made it my new avatar.

Someone asked me about a photo that I’d scanned a couple years ago, so I went into my Lightroom library to dig it up. I couldn’t find it. Many of the other scans from that same batch of found negatives were there, but a number of them seemed to have gone missing. I thought making things digital was supposed to make it easier to store and find things. Apparently, I’ve not figured out how to do that yet, so I pulled the original negatives and found the ones I wanted in about 30 seconds.

While they were out I scanned a few more that I missed or otherwise skipped last time. I find them fascinating.

People playing cards

I wonder what these folks are doing

Girl holding kittens

Baby chewing stick

Man on Indian motorcycle

Women in boat on Reeds Lake