Better Than Going Out

Calibrations on computer screens varies widely, so I don't really know what you see after I post a photo.  I have been using the same computers for some time now, but yesterday I used a new MacBook Pro and could barely see anything of these dark, chocolate images that I have been making recently.  Whether you like them or not might depend on that.  Either way.  I will print some of them in a few days, though, to see if this is a direction in which I want to go or if it is something to be abandoned quickly.  I suspect, though, that they will print up well.  I want the viewer to have to lean into the image trying to see into the dark.  To peer.  To gaze.  I just want to break the "prose" of photography for a minute, to set line breaks, to slow the "reader" down.  How is that different from the desires of any other picture maker, though?  I've never heard anyone say the opposite, say that they want the viewer to hurry through the images as quickly as possible, to spend the minimum amount of time looking at the image.  Maybe there is a new direction there!  Fast Art.  The Quicker, The Better.

I think, though, that these photos "shine" too much and have an idea that they may get a coating of wax to obscure them some, to dull them.

I have just loaded Photoshop CS5 onto my computer and am reading a book on it right now.  It seems there are some changes that I will like, and I'm excited.  I also loaded the software for my new Wacom Intuos pad and will have to begin learning what I can do with that, too.  I'll do stupid things and think they are clever for a long time, I'm sure, and I'll post them here for future embarrassment.

But now I want a new computer, one of the new Macs with the 25" screens.  Way leads to way until you're broke, at which point everything you've gotten stands as an accusation and you can't stand to touch it any more.  The Way of Things.

But Art. . . .  An update.  I've sent some of my work out to places I have no business sending it, and someone significant has done that for me as well.  It is good for me, for with rejection (or utter silence) comes the End of Desire.  And with that comes. . . ?

So I'll just keep spending my money and making images.  Sometimes it is just better than going out.