to all who worry about film being deadish

jan normandale said:
Right on Bill!
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I love this kind of messages. It's the big stadium heat.

So late here I must be out of my mind. Perhaps just jelous.

Some times at earlier hours too.

Good night,
Ruben
 
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Comments: I sold my Hammond M3 when I moved South, but the the mighty B3 will never be replaced and is popular as ever. And be sure that when I sold mine that I had buyers lined up!

I have two turn turntables and I can only play the old jazz I collect on them. Except for noise analog sounds better than digital, and all my guitar amps are tube (like the Hammond).

I still paint with brushes and always will; I have a digital tablet but it's too slow if you have the old skills.

I still ride my bike daily.

I have a wooden a view camera (and a metal one too) and the only gripe is that film is now $80 a box.

Every Harley Davidson ever made sounds like a steam engine so it's alive in there somewhere! Steam turbines are engines by definition an they survive every where from ships to nuclear power plants.

My pocket watch lives on a fob and is analog too, thank you.

Theater = performance and it's not dead, even if it lives in the street!

I just bought a NAD receiver this week so I could have radio in my shop. Public radio is one of my greatest joys!

Movies form the core of the cult of personalty, and that will never end. Humans are too social.

George Bush is on the promenade deck of the Hindenburg as I type.

And, tell any rug maker that he has to forgo using his loom.

Film going away? Not likely, it will be more expensive, but I still insist on owning a battery-less camera.
 
Jan: You and I know that Bill is, in reality, a shy fellow.

Speaking of Hazmat and EPA, in the Fall of '04 I was half way through teaching Introduction to Black & White Film Photography (ART285) at a nearby college when the door to the lab burst open and men in white hazmat suits poured in. "What's going on in here?" demanded the head guy. "Developing film, making enlargements," I said. "What are you doing with the fixer?" "Pouring it down the drain," I answered. Wrong answer.

Two days later, the hazmatistas showed up again with white five gallon containers labeled "Hazardous Waste" and a chapter or two on how we should dispose of our deadly, plague-infested fixer (basically pour it into the containers, and when full, make a phone call).

Obviously, someone had snitched us off, photo-terrorists that we are.

ALSO I note that some of you people are now three star generals. What do the three stars mean? Are they good? Should I have some?

Signed, breathless in Bisbee
 
tedwhite said:
Jan: You and I know that Bill is, in reality, a shy fellow.

Speaking of Hazmat and EPA, in the Fall of '04 I was half way through teaching Introduction to Black & White Film Photography (ART285) at a nearby college when the door to the lab burst open and men in white hazmat suits poured in. "What's going on in here?" demanded the head guy. "Developing film, making enlargements," I said. "What are you doing with the fixer?" "Pouring it down the drain," I answered. Wrong answer.

Two days later, the hazmatistas showed up again with white five gallon containers labeled "Hazardous Waste" and a chapter or two on how we should dispose of our deadly, plague-infested fixer (basically pour it into the containers, and when full, make a phone call).

Obviously, someone had snitched us off, photo-terrorists that we are.

ALSO I note that some of you people are now three star generals. What do the three stars mean? Are they good? Should I have some?

Signed, breathless in Bisbee
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The "stars" are for site contibutors. They "cost" $25. Contact Jorge for more info.

As to the hazmat thing - when in Tucson - we do as Tucsonans do and bring our hazardous waste to the hazardous waste disposal site.

It sits next to the polluted river bed (which for the unitiated - is normally dry) hard by I-10 with its stream of polluting truck traffic. There these burly guys in "moon suits" take gingerly take our cans of RAID and uncermoniously dump them into 55 gallon drums. I do not ask, nor do I expect them to tell what happens next. :rolleyes:

All kidding aside, proper disposal of developing fluid "waste" is simply being "responsible". Besides, much can be recovered and re-used. It's really not a great burden to be "nice" to the environment and it makes you feel warm and fuzzy all over when you do so! :angel:
 
I do feel warm and fuzzy, and I do recycle aluminum cans and newspapers and plastic and cardboard. It's just the way they burst in and traumatized a couple of my students (the rest saw it as absurd theater).

AS for the gold stars, I have been trying to throw $25 Jorge's way for days, but how to do it is shrouded in mystery and certainly not included in the thingy on the home page. So I have emailed RFF. No answer. I have a PayPal. My credit is exemplary. I check the tires in both my Passat and my motorcycle twice monthly.

But ah caint get me no gol-den stars...
Oh Lord, caint I buy me some gol-den stars...
 
Quel horreur! I never thought of that. Wait 'til they see me at the gas station tomorrow with four flat tires. "Uh, Ted, it's supposed to be the other way round.."

Anyway, Jorge stepped up to the plate and relieved me of my funds.
 
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