Interesting observation. I was doing a paper for my class the other night and I was thinking that video is going to replace stills for many casual (read like family) pictures the same way digital has replaced film in the next three to five years. While it would be great to hear Grandma Peg at a birthday party from years ago, there is something about the power if a still. While you do not get as much information it allows you to linger, to think more. Video has more of an MTV mindset, more flash, less seeing and less thinking.
Thanks for the heads up, I will sneak over there tomorrow and see if I can see it on-line.
B2 (;->
I somehow like to think everyone has that box of old prints going back 100 years or so in the attic, some albums, some deckle edged prints, I have a family album with a music box and tin types in it, -- you do not look at them often, but you don't have to, they are still there.
My friend's family had to leave Latvia just ahead of the Russian Army in the 40's, and one person grabbed the family photos, which they still have and look at.
Perhaps we will be grabbing the family hard drive, hardly the same thing, ;-)
People still have prints, but since my friend found a digital camera, he has several years of images on a single SD card, got a little panicky when it was misplaced, I do not think he has printed more than a couple of images, if any.
I found it interesting that CBS was essentially paying respect to the single image-- it has perhaps become something of note, when it was quite commonplace just a few years ago.
