It looks like I last wrote about Google+ nearly five years ago — and only to declare it not dead.
Never a good sign.
So, here’s a video from a defunct satire site, about a defunct social network, found via a defunct VC-backed news site, which concludes with the fact that social networks lead inevitably to nazis.
This must be the most 2019 thing ever.
Wow - Google+ integration in search. I had completely forgotten about that.
Bittersweet memories of 1999
Wow.
The current batch of negatives I’m scanning right now really capture a moment in time. They must be from 1999, one of the more significant years in my life - and 20 years ago, almost exactly.
The first few photographs are of the woman who was soon to be my ex-girlfriend in the flat we shared (and, honestly, the coming storm was written all over her face in those images), while the next batch were of a party at the flat of the woman who is now my wife.
Those really were a few months that changed my life forever, and in ways that were only good.
However, the deep sadness is that one person in those images is no longer with us, passing too, too young.
Plenty of pain in those images and the memories they evoke - but also joy. I wouldn’t surrender either.
Just preordered The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media by Nathan Jurgenson, because it looks fascinating.
The Traditional Photograph Versus The Social Photograph
I like this distinction a great deal:
Jurgenson told me that he draws a distinction between the traditional photograph as a permanent documentary object and the social photograph, which tends toward “ephemerality, playfulness, and expressiveness. When images are easy to make and easy to share, they come to be less about permanence.”
It comes from an interesting piece about the intersection of digital photography and memory.
Serious photographers have always distinguished between the “snap” and the “serious photo”. That distinction has taken on a much deeper meaning in the digital age. The social photograph is clearly a “snap”. But that doesn’t negate the role of the traditional photo.
I bought a new mirrorless camera last month, and I’ve really been enjoying disconnected photography for a while. It is a distinctly different experience to shooting with my iPhone.
On the ERG:
”Nobody deserves the ERG, though, which is to politics what food poisoning is to dinner parties.”
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