Old world, where are you?

» 27 Jan 2005, 12:52pm in personal, photography, entertainment - 0 comments

Hello hello... a few things on my mind. First is, Aaron and I went to the Metric show on Monday night at The Mod Club. Great show, especially since the Mod Club is fairly small. I loved how lead singer Emily Haines thrashed on her Sequential Pro-One synth.

Next is... I was surfing some blog sites and found Dave Winer's page called The History of Weblogs. He states that his Scripting News weblog is "one of the earliest and is currently the longest-running weblog" on the 'Net. This made me think about my first web pages way back in University. I had a personal web page as far back as 1995 - almost 10 years ago - at the University of Windsor, and I found my NetCore homepage from 1997 on archive.org's wayback machine. It has links to really old-school design pioneers like the blue dot (part of Razorfish), Kai Krause of Kai's Power Tools fame, and MetaTools. It also lists a few of the websites that I designed for NetCore. Crazy.

Last thought was... while at the Metric show, I saw the usual numbers of people with digital cameras, and a few up front with more professional looking rigs. Something made me think: what happens to the still photographer, and to still photography, (and this can include any type of photographer, eg., landscape, concert, news, street, etc) when digital still cameras become capable of recording and storing hours of live 30fps (or more) at very high resolutions, even at the resolution of todays dSLRs (from 6 to over 20 Megapixels)? If you can shoot full motion video, with the optics and resolution of an SLR, and virtually limitless storage, why would one take still photos? Or at the very least, why shoot only one photo at a time when you could hold the shutter button down for minutes at a time and then choose the best frame of the bunch later on? If you're shooting a concert, for example, why not shoot 2 hours of 8 Megapixel images on your 64 Terabyte CompactFlash card, then pick the best ones on your PC later on? Kind of takes the "decisive" out of Henri Cartier-Bresson's "decisive moment". Does all of this technology detract from the creativity of still photography as it once was?

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