John Henry Died. That's what happened.

  • Tony Hicke: just read your blog
  • Lou Noble: yeah?
  • Tony Hicke: and I would like to make this comment
  • Tony Hicke: take that conversation
  • Tony Hicke: move it to 1946
  • Lou Noble: hahahahah
  • Tony Hicke: insert polaroid where it says digital
  • Tony Hicke: and think about it
  • Lou Noble: funny, but doesn't work
  • Tony Hicke: yes
  • Tony Hicke: it does
  • Tony Hicke: instant stisfaction
  • Lou Noble: you were still constrained by the limited number of shots
  • Lou Noble: it's not about having to wait
  • Tony Hicke: lame
  • Lou Noble: it's about limits
  • Tony Hicke: man
  • Tony Hicke: comeone
  • Tony Hicke: its baout technology
  • Lou Noble: i know it sounds silly
  • Lou Noble: but here's the thing
  • Lou Noble: hear me out
  • Lou Noble: i see people who start photography by shooting digital
  • Lou Noble: and they have a much harder time defining their style
  • Lou Noble: figuring out what their "voice" is
  • Lou Noble: it's about the ease with which you can take a good picture
  • Lou Noble: the lack of limits, at the beginning, hurts a photographer
  • Lou Noble: sure, now
  • Lou Noble: i could do just as fine with a digital camera
  • Lou Noble: my work wouldn't really suffer
  • Lou Noble: but there is a difference, because of that ease
  • 2: 55 PM
  • Tony Hicke: so its really a personal satisfaction thing
  • Tony Hicke: that you had to work for it
  • Lou Noble: yeah, otherwise, where's the inherent value?
  • Tony Hicke: but if your work doesn't suffer
  • Tony Hicke: why is there a loss in value
  • Tony Hicke: maybe in personal value
  • Lou Noble: i think a lot of it comes to, with a digital camera, it is very easy to take a decent shot
  • Lou Noble: and if all digital shots are good, then where's the value?
  • Lou Noble: if they're all special, none of them are
  • Tony Hicke: progress!
  • Tony Hicke: its called progress!
  • Lou Noble: this is the price of progress
  • Tony Hicke: I see what you are saying
  • Lou Noble: i don't disagree with you
  • Lou Noble: digital is a technologically superior medium
  • Lou Noble: but i think there is a price to be paid for that advancement
  • Tony Hicke: but the price paid is that there is now a lot of really good pictures, but before, there were fewer
  • Tony Hicke: because it was harder
  • Lou Noble: which lessens the difference between a talented photographer and an amateur
  • Lou Noble: and lessens the value of photography as a whole
  • Tony Hicke: basically
  • 3: 00 PM
  • Tony Hicke: I understand the concept
  • Tony Hicke: but epople aren't goign to care less a bout a beuatiful phograph
  • Tony Hicke: they may pay less
  • Tony Hicke: but I don't think they'd care less
  • Tony Hicke: I see, I see
  • Tony Hicke: I understand completely your concept
  • Tony Hicke: I guess because it is not my passion
  • Tony Hicke: I'mfine with it
  • Lou Noble: imagine if a machine made it possible for everyone to do geology
  • Lou Noble: thus making you obsolete
  • Tony Hicke: see
  • Tony Hicke: so its not about the art
  • Tony Hicke: its about your obsolescence
  • Lou Noble: well, but you consider what you do a function of your skill
  • Lou Noble: a bad geologist makes you mad, yes?
  • Tony Hicke: I suppose
  • Lou Noble: okay
  • Lou Noble: or a shitty band
  • Lou Noble: imagine if a machine made Shitty geologists accomplish the work that previously could only be done by good geologists
  • Lou Noble: dude still sucks
  • Lou Noble: has no talent for "the color"
  • Tony Hicke: HAHAHAHAH
  • Lou Noble: but his machine hides that
  • Lou Noble: you like that?
  • Tony Hicke: I htink you go, you learn that machine
  • Tony Hicke: and make better things with that machine
  • Lou Noble: that's what always ends up happening, yeah
  • Tony Hicke: its nostalgia
  • 3: 05 PM
  • Tony Hicke: its somehting you hold dear
  • Tony Hicke: I understand
  • Lou Noble: on a more practical level
  • Lou Noble: it's of course easier to stand out this way
  • Lou Noble: to make a name for oneself
  • Lou Noble: hell, most people consider these things, like Polaroid, "hard" to take a good shot with
  • Tony Hicke: It seems that the conversation you two had has happened every 4 years, as technology progressed through time
  • Lou Noble: yep
  • Tony Hicke: Like
  • Lou Noble: it started, i didn't add this part, because i was considering digital
  • Tony Hicke: MAN
  • I USED TO DAN THE BEST DEER HID
  • Tony Hicke: E
  • Lou Noble: know what it is?
  • Tony Hicke: now , big wampum can tan 5 at a time
  • Lou Noble: it's John Henry
  • Tony Hicke: me so insignificant
  • Tony Hicke: it is John Henry
  • Lou Noble: and we all know what happened to him
  • Tony Hicke: Won the lottery, retired in Hollywood, became a pornstar, fdies with a smile on his face