vinyl and film - what a waste

[daveleo]

True? Maybe in New York...

.........

Sitting on your prostate while listening from computer and editing on computer is as convinient as driving car. Makes you fat. Printing in darkroom and by same time dancing while vynil is playing is the way to go!

On the other hand, you can stream music from your i-pod/pad/phone by wireless earplugs, while editing photos using an i-pod/pad/phone app while you're skateboarding down the steps at city hall.

</joke 😀 >

 

[Spanik]

Nothing to do with photography but it is about silly packaging: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/29/aboxalypse_now/?page=1

 

[Stuart John]

Yep vinyl is great.
Here's mine.

 

[Nokton48]

Hot Rod Yami by Nokton48, on Flickr

180G Vinyl King Crimson Live at the Orpheum

Came wrapped in bubble wrap and cardboard I save what I can and recycle the rest

 

[JHutchins]

Here in Juneau I rely on the post for damn near everything. Lots of cardboard, lots of plastic airbags, lots of styrofoam peanuts (which I loathe), coming up on my account. And I strongly suspect recycling (which involves barging everything to be recycled back down to Seattle) makes no sense at all from a resource conservation or carbon reduction point of view, though its done regardless as it saves on limited landfill space here (though there doesn't seem a point for cardboard, which in our profoundly damp climate surely degrades very quickly). And I think we're all talking about Freestyle (a business I'm very grateful for but still...) when we discuss the place that sends film and chemicals in absurdly large boxes?

As for film, vinyl, and printed books. None of these things make any sense for me whatsoever. I live on a sailboat. I simply do not have space for a meaningful number of books anywhere except on my Kindle. I do not have the space for a darkroom, and a turntable on a boat bobbing in the harbor is a patent absurdity. Except...

I have a couple of thousand books in storage, I have some developing tanks and a Focomat 1c enlarger packed away in pieces in various clever cubbyholes in my boat, and I was in the odd electronic shop across from my office once and the owner sees me and says "Hey, I just brought in a couple of Thorens turntables from home I think you should look at. One doesn't have a box so I can't really ship it and you can have it for whatever you want to pay for it."

I keep it in my office

 

[hlockwood]

All things are impermanent, but that doesn't mean what we think it means. If the cardboard ends up in a land fill it breaks down quickly, returns to it's basic chemical elements, the rain allows it to be drawn into the roots of nearby trees and vegetation for sustenance, and it is reborn as another tree.

There is no waste in the universe. It is impossible for matter to be created or destroyed, it is simply changed into different forms. All the atoms that ever existed still exist, and will till the end of time (no one knows if such a thing actually exists). It's called the cycle of life. There can never be waste as energy is simply turned into different forms of energy. All of us, the tree, the sky, the cat, the termite, the clouds, will exist forever, just in different forms, and those forms are not fixed, they are ever-changing. Change is the only constant.

Steve,

I suggest you look up "Entropy."

HFL

 

[teddy]

On another note, since some are posting photos of their lovely TT's, I might just post one of mine. 🙂

 

[underlord]

Vinyl Man by Philip McAllister, on Flickr

 

[Richard G]

I love that New Yorker cartoon. My Vinyl is in a cupboard until my children leave home. Then I will buy another turntable to be used in the brief interval before the inevitable arrival of grandchildren..... I hate streamed music. I hate earbuds. I love albums, including my current staple CDs. I do judge books and music by their covers, and some of the best discs I have were bought because I was attracted to the cover. I am currently listening to Andras Schiff playing an 1820 fortepiano - Schubert. It is suptendous. I don't want this streamed, part of some 'playlist'. I want the physical disc set, liner notes and the two CDs.

But I miss the lovely big LP album covers. I am such a meagre consumer of all of these things that I don't care one bit about the packaging excess, which I too recycle.

 

[Nokton48]

DSC05638 by Nokton48, on Flickr

DSC05639 by Nokton48, on Flickr

 

[wjlapier]

What the heck:



This!

 

[daveleo]

I must have set the TARDIS to 1966 !

 

[ChrisPlatt]

Those who complain about oversize packaging have probably never had a camera destroyed in shipping, as I have.
Suggest you check mailing/packaging requirements for the major carriers; you might be surprised.
Carriers will not pay an insurance claim for items damaged in transit if not packed to their specifications.

When packing my philosophy is that it's better to err on the side of excess.
Packing materials and postage are cheap compared to cameras and repairs.

Chris

 

[Nokton48]

I must have set the TARDIS to 1966 !

Some of these albums were purchased new this year. 🙂

 

[user237428934]

This thread took a nice turn with all those photos from records and turntables.