In the beginning there was the word..

Red Deer Rut

The authors of the the King James' really knew what they were taking about.  Of course, they were translating the greek text of the bible into English  but nonetheless they were true.  In the beginning there is the word.

This is how I feel at the moment.  I need to find the word or to be more precise 3000 words.   I have started the essay writing process and like many creative processes it is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.   The problem is finding the first portion of that 10%.   I can provide the perspiration just were is the inspiration?

In truth I have just written 700 words of my first draft.  Actually, this is incorrect.   This isn't my first draft but rather the first words put down on paper to get me started.  I will be very surprised if any see the light of day beyond the start doc v0.2.  But you have start somewhere and this is where I have started.   

Having too much information is as much of a curse as too little.   How do you edit out the chaff so that you only include the wheat?   Time will tell if I am successful in this particular endeavour.   

Still its better than working for a living (Thats 33 years of experience talking!)   Now if I could only find that word...

Newtwork Google Count:

Newtworks: 193k entries

Newtwork: 464k entries.

More Crewdson Nonsense

Fireflies - Gregory Crewdson

The more I look at Crewdson's work the more I find I love and hate it in almost equal measure.  The hate comes from his corporate work of the last decade.  I just find Twilight and Dream House so depressing and yet so fascinating.   Love him or loath him you have got to accept that he insists on the highest production values for his images.   Note that I don't say for the images he makes because that would simply not be a correct statement.   I have spent sometime thinking about how to describe Crewdson and I think the best way to do this is 'an artist'.   I really do have difficulty seeing him as a photographer.   However, it can equally be argued that this is the point of his work - to be ambiguous and so his input and role are ambiguous.

And then I see the wonderful images contained in Fireflies and again I have to start to question my assessment of Crewdson.  These are a series of images of fireflies Crewdson tried to capture in the summer of 1996.   They are simple black and white images taken at dusk of the patterns left by the fire flies as they fly across the summer vegetation.   They are marvelous.  They look like fairies dancing in the warm summer evening.   Entrancing.   Gone are the obsession with precision and instead we have a more free flowing image of nothing more than white blobs.   They are the better for this.    I have been reading about David Shepherd's attempt to capture the last days of steam in Britain.   He claims that his beautiful oil sketches capture the atmosphere of the time in a way that photographs can't.  I am not sure this is entirely true but it does indicate what Crewdson's later images lack - atmosphere.

Newtwork  Google Count:

Newtworks 471k entries

Newtwork 369k entries

Long Live the Newtwork

What a wonderful word.  I thought I would google this and found that there were 464k entries!   The best link I found was for a Newtwork Administrator on the ITWire web site.   Google it its wonderful...it looks like I am not the only one who makes typos.   Long live the Newtwork!

The box is back - Hello to Newtwork

As I sit here writing this the box has returned.   This time it has none of its menace. Gone is its arrogant confidence replaced, instead, by a sorry gapping wound to the head.   This wound has proven fatal as the contents have been removed and now the box is just an empty shell.   I would like to make a crowing sound at this moment but unfortunately the war between me and the box didn't quite go according to plan.   Instead of having a fully functioning network printer we have had to settle for a printer share from my son's computer.    I am sure that if I was that motivated I could have installed it on the newtwork (This was a typo but I just love the word I will start using this in future instead of network) but I am not.