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by squidsoup 1y ago
Most film shooters I meet these days are young people that were not alive when film was commonly used by the public, so I don’t think it’s nostalgia. I suspect film is becoming more popular again as embracing a fully analog process allows y
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by squidsoup 1y ago
Sounds like a nightmare. My cameras gives me 10 exposures. I think about them carefully.
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by squidsoup 1y ago
Not many digital cameras today can approach the quality of medium format 6x7, and no digital cameras in existence can hope to approach the resolution and quality of large format film photography.
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by squidsoup 1y ago
Kodak make exceptional film that no one else makes, or can make. There is no replacement for Portra. Anyone can make a soulless digital camera.
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by squidsoup 1y ago
The solution for both preservation of ecosystems _and_ fisheries is creating marine reserves like Papahānaumokuākea.
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by squidsoup 1y ago
The recent David Attenborough documentary Ocean suggested that the Papahānaumokuākea Marine conservation area off the coast of Hawaii had contributed to abundant fishing stock outside the reserve. It was suggested that if we reserved 30% of
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by squidsoup 1y ago
Pynchon's "California" novels (crying of lot 49, vineland, inherent vice) are much more readable, and arguably enjoyable. I found Gravity's Rainbow pretty inscrutable.
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by squidsoup 1y ago
Incorrect, its a book for people that like farts.
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by squidsoup 1y ago
I propose effluencers.
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by squidsoup 1y ago
This is going to be awful for the large proportion of greybeards reading HN, but the kids are going to love it.
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by squidsoup 1y ago
I've really come to appreciate daenjang more than Japanese miso over time. It has funkier, earthier but arguably less refined taste than Japanese miso.
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by squidsoup 1y ago
> Most of the soy sauce you encounter in the US has wheat, while in Japan (and seemingly South Korea) there's no wheat added. My favourite jang is made from fermented wheat and soy - chunjang. Chunjang is the star ingredient in one
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by squidsoup 1y ago
And I just put the kettle on for the Anunnaki, what a pity.
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by squidsoup 1y ago
As a photographer, one of the things that draws me to the work of artists like Bill Brandt and Daido Moriyama is their use of low dynamic range, and high contrast. I rarely see an HDR image that is aesthetically interesting.
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by squidsoup 1y ago
Very much the case in New Zealand as well.
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by squidsoup 2y ago
You could make exactly the same complaint about python packaging. We've gone from setuptools, to pip, to poetry and now uv.
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by squidsoup 2y ago
> Having 2 apps that operate slightly differently is okay—even under the same brand. Perhaps if you those two apps are in completely different domains, but if you have a suite of apps that are all related, maintaining consistent styling
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by squidsoup 2y ago
Sure, but then your company grows large enough to want its own design system, and you have multiple applications that need shared components. How do you implement that in rails?
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by squidsoup 2y ago
I understand the intent of this ruling, but it seems that real artists like Refik Adanol who trains his own models and produces work that I would consider to be uniquely his, are getting the short end of the stick here.
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by squidsoup 2y ago
Have you considered a fuji? The film simulations make for great SOOC shots without the need for editing.
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by squidsoup 2y ago
Seems like a usability regression. My Fujifilm camera has independent physical controls for ISO, aperture and shutter speed, and it delightful to use.
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by squidsoup 2y ago
Certainly easy to perpetuate insane conspiracy theories like this when the anti-science administration is no longer collecting stats on infectious diseases.
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by squidsoup 2y ago
Farewell eagle scout from Missoula, Montana.
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by squidsoup 2y ago
As much as I hate the light from hooded LED streetlights, they leak far less light than sodium lights and are better for wildlife.
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by squidsoup 2y ago
> They are just regurgitating opinions like yours, many of which are overly pretentious defensive nonsense. Pretentious is reducing the work of one of the most highly acclaimed film makers of our time to “weird for the sake of weird” and
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by squidsoup 2y ago
> His work can have recurring themes and still be weird for the sake of weird and mostly atmosphere Everything "weird" in his work serves the narrative and those themes. If you had spent any time thinking critically about any o
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by squidsoup 2y ago
> The movie industry is a joke as far as "new stuff" is concerned There's a whole world of cinema that exists outside of hollywood.
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by squidsoup 2y ago
> many human creations are re-hashes of old creations But the meaningful creations, those that drive our culture forward, are those that build on the foundations of something old, and create something new.
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by squidsoup 2y ago
> That doesn't conflict with anything I've claimed. It absolutely does - you said "His stuff is 90% atmosphere" and "weird for the sake of weird", both complete nonsense.
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by squidsoup 2y ago
There are very clear themes and currents running through his work - fears around industrialisation and technology (electricity and machinery are recurring motifs), explorations of identity, exploitation both sexual and societal, the facade

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