Black and White Photography Blog, Vol. I

I’m spending a lot of time now organizing and converting images into b&w through Lightroom. And it finally struck me what ‘Lightroom’ meant - uh - opposite of Darkroom. I guess ya’ll knew that, but now it makes sense. Ah - it’s an amazing world these days. I often wonder what I would have done, how would I have survived if I had been born a hundred years ago.

Do you wonder about things like that? I mean, this has been a perfect age for me. I’ve got a foot in the digital world and the art world. There’s always something new to learn (or should I say, play around with, which is how I think of it).

Could I have adapted to the industrial revolution as I adapted to the digital revolution? Could you? Would you? (There’s a song in this somewhere…)

Well, I sit here typing in my blog, and maybe I have as many readers as there were for the first poems of Keats. Not as many readers over the course of time, but as many readers for any one day. Think about the early distribution of poetry. More people saw a superbowl commercial for Pepsi, than have read Keats in say 20 years.

Someone walks in beauty like the night. I think that’s Keats. But now you’ll see that what made her beautiful was that she drank Pepsi. She drinks Pepsi, like all the beautiful people do.

Okay - off track Beckerman, as usual. You seem to think that commercials are the bane of modern existence. But without them - most of the shows you like would never have been made. That’s right, I confess to have pedestrian tastes in t.v. - and so with pedestrian tastes come pedestrian ads. So just like in politics — uh oh — you get what you voted for with your dollars. Oh boy - here comes trouble.

Please - does this have anything to do with the wall of peeling adverts on the candy store walls? I don’t think so… O, I forgot. That’s okay because this is stream of consciousness - so I can go where I want. I think I want to go to bed right now…