Going fully digital.

I often think about doing similar to this. But I find small "analogue" things like little souvenirs, favorite books and snapshots on the walls are making my life a bit brighter. And of course I end up with bunch of crap in my room.

I kinda do this for my work though. My entire professional existence can be contained in one Mac laptop and an iPhone, and I like that part.
 
Well, good for him. However, I doubt he'll do it for the rest of his life and his friends are going to get sick of him eventually. :)
 
I believe that Weegee lived a minimalist existence - a single room, a Speed Graphic, film and cigars. It's just being able to give up all the "crap" that most of us cling to - clean sheets, towels etc. Knowing that I'll have a roof over my head produces a sense of contentment that for me is priceless, outweighs any "simplicity." By the way, wasn't it the Unabomber who lived in a cabin in the woods, unconnected to the power grid - no sense of contentment in that guy.
 
Prints are analog. Who can see what is in your computer no matter how wonderful it is.

Piece and solitude of my darkroom is wonderful.

Making 3 digital exposures without wasting the rest of a roll is color film is wonderful.

Developing color film is not fun.

Saving digital copies in multiple safe places is wonderful.

The old Leica M bodies are a joy to use. Digital Nikons, even the pro models like my D3, while nice, are just not Leica. Digital Leica does not cut it for me. Neither does their new price list so I am happy I have a lifetime worth now.

Scanning black and white silver film sucks in the shadows. Sure I could use C41 black and white but that is a PITA to develope.
My solution is two scans, one for proper highlights, one for proper shadows. Then combine in photoshop. This works, but time consuming. Develope less and I can`t make enlarger prints on #2 paper. Some films are better than others. Tri X at 200 works. T Max seems not to be so good. I just did a test and scanned the film and made a digi file, same time same place. The digi file had more shadow detail than scanned film file, yet a similar amount was visable on the neg. I just could not capture it all with a single pass scan.
MK 5400 scanner which has a nice diffusion light too.

So pay your money and take your choice.
 
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"if a complete map of our brains was uploaded to a computer....we could in theory continue to live forever....."

Hmmmmm, I don't think so! It's an interesting article. Reminds me of something you'd read in a yuppie sort of magazine. You can't really carry this line of thought too far because it's all based on "in theory" or the like.

The part that made me laugh though was the above shortened paragraph about mapping your brain and putting it on a hard drive. Nope, it won't fit. Just to look at what we're dealing with here, I went to a book called "The Brain Has a Mind of It's Own" by Richard Restak, a neurologist who is able to write clearly about some very complicated stuff. He says that if you were to look at the synapses in our brains (the spaces between our brain's nerve ends that look sort of tendril like and communicate w/ other brain cells) you'd find that if you looked at all the possible combinations they could make, it would be more than the number of atoms in the known universe. People are always thinking that brains somehow relate to computers, when in reality a computer that could mimic the human brain is in all likelihood very impossible to ever produce.
 
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Nutrient tubes and their less pleasant counterparts will soon follow for these guys.

(sigh) I had hoped that humanity is better than this...
 
"if a complete map of our brains was uploaded to a computer....we could in theory continue to live forever....."

only if you called "life" to that...

What's the point of a "virtual" life (instead of a real life) ?

These guys really need to get a life.
 
Wouldn't fancy one of these gits sleeping on my sofa day in day out. I can see how owning less 'stuff' is liberating, but this is just too far the other way, and a little.. sad.
 
An individual in the area where I live is very proud of his minimalism. A house built from timber from land he lives on, solar power, no car, etc etc!

He has few friends though because they soon realised that the purpose of the friendship was to be able to get a lift in their cars when needed and often to use their computers to be able to research some piece of environmentally friendly technology he was interested in on the web!
 
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where would i put my snacks?
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I have enough trouble deciding if I should bring 2 lenses on an outing instead of 3. And yes, where in the world would I carry my snacks? That means I now have to decide on which bag to bring; another whole can of worms... :bang:
 
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Like certain Philip Glass compositions, some of the more extreme examples of lifestyle "minimalism" threaten to cross over into mere onanistic exercises. Living with less stuff? I'm certainly on-board with that, having carefully whittled down the number of possessions I came to regard as excess baggage, both literally and psychologically. Living in a laptop? Not at all for me, and sort of farcical when the burden of where to lay your head falls squarely on the shoulders of friends and acquaintances, who, no doubt, will tire of the "novelty" of such a lifestyle rather quickly.

This piece speaks to me far more strongly, and sanely.


- Barrett
 
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