I subscribe the Manifesto. Tks;-)

Welcome to Fotolog!!!!!!

Amen. I find it very refreshing too and can hardly bear to look at some false-looking `professional` images now. As Charles Rennie Mackintosh was fond of saying, "There is hope in honest error. None in the icy perfections of the mere stylist."

You has a great brain

kewl kewl - w`come..

Totally correct! Curiously enough, I have just written about the Fotolog phenomenom (in Portuguese). You are comparing them to ad pix; I compared them to news pix, which always represent exceptions to the rule. Someone tending her garden in Brussels won`t make the news, whereas a plane crash in outer Mongolia will probably hit headlines worldwide. Fotolog brings you mostly the non-news, the everyday life as it happens around the world, thru the eyes of the people who are simply living, as opposed to witnessing. Or something to this effect... Fact is, Fotolog lends itself to "n" theories, all of them perfectly sound -- until proven flatly wrong... ;-) ||| I agree with what you wrote about bsamp. He is by far the most creative person among us, the one who managed to see the whole canvas and to change everyone else`s perception of it.

Me likee very much. Been throwing a manifesto or two around in my head for years, yours comes close enough for here and now - I`m in. (A phrase I`ve used before is "the heedless rush of hyper-consumerism" - there`s gotta be someone to stop and actually SEE. What I will achieve personally by doing so is anyone`s guess, but I gotta try ...))

Thanks for that.
Check out ADBUSTERS. It isn`t image specific, but it has lots to say about the over-saturation of visual garbage and its negative effect on the cultural landscape.

ditto on the Adbusters suggestion-- but i`m guessing you already know of it. welcome to the memescape, and thx for your contributions.

Bravo! I totally agree with that.
I`d rather spent a couple of hours here visiting some of the fotologs than playing couch potato in front of a tv. You can see so much, learn so much... Yesterday, for example, I visited a new fotolog and there was only 1 picture posted there. But it really intrigued me because of its beauty. I asked the guy if the picture was taken in Thailand and as an answer I got a "No, it was in Laos". I`d never imagine something that pretty, a golden palace, could be found there. I`ve never been there but that picture made me want to go there someday.

spent = spend :) typos

Hooray! Fotolog is more like life, more about the ordinary captured on the fly instead of what Ansel Adams referred to as "exquisitely rendered mediocrity."

man, I´ve just said it all!

As Chance the Gardner said in *Being There*, "I like to watch". Fotolog is an evolving, self-selected community of watchers. I hope the powers that be will use their creative juices and new funds to turn this great photofest into the best watching on the planet.

Yes but unlike the TUBE, which is a one way street, - here you are pushed to look everywhere else as well - for another bloody picture to take. Chance was a passive watcher. Here looking is a dialog - a conversation of looking and imaging - in this village of global picture takers.

Another essential difference is that "the powers that be" here are not providing the programing. The juice comes from the watchers. As does the funding for the enterprise which is commercial free. And what does this mean about putting your money where your mouth is? I was astonished paging California last nite that 90% of the posters are treating this like free TV. I finally decided I`m getting enough entertainment out of this to pony up. And it had nothing to do with posting more than 1 pic per day. It`s like the price of a video rental.

The powers that be are providing the mechanics of access. There is certainly as much opportunity the shape the nature of this community there as there is in what is being posted. I say this as a librarian who spends his life digging stuff out of databases. The way digging tools here evolve evolve will shape the community and the nature of this media. For instance one might be able to define a search by how long the logger has been posting and by some criteria of how many hits they have been getting. Or have the ability to look at urban street shots or rural compositions. Or see a list of group logs such as zen has built. I didn`t mean to imply, of course, that we are just watchers here. Cameras have always offered watchers a unique means of participation.

good one, i did write some stuff about fotolog, a long text actually but in portuguese. take care.

Tradução tosca - (rough translation to portuguese)

PARA A COMUNIDADE DA IMAGEM - UM MANIFESTO


Nós vivemos em meio a Colossais Máquinas de Imagem que são Globais e Corporativas - irradiando-nos com suas imagens altamente manufaturadas.


Essas imagens alimentam a Economia e o Consumismo Globais, que estão fisicamente alterando o nosso planeta, o nosso próprio eu e o todas as culturas do planeta.


Em face a isso nos sentimos vulneráveis, como os povos primitivos mais inocentes em seus primeiros contatos com o massacre histórico que data da chegada de Colombo no Novo mundo.


Hoje essas imagens transcendem todas as linguagens e o âmbito de seus efeitos não tem precedente na história humana.


A sua infecção - mais virulenta do que varíola - percorre a terra, da mais sofisticada mega-cidade à mais remota vila na floresta tropical.


Fotolog com a sua democracia dos tiradores de fotos e artistas de imagens é como ar fresco. É simultâneamente Global e Local


Veja o número de linguagens que estão dialogando entre si e como as suas próprias imagens refletem a cultura onde os seus produtores vivem.


Compare as imagens que vêm da Holanda com as do Brasil por exemplo. Ou fotos do Japão com algumas de São Francisco.


Enquanto bebemos das imagens do Fotolog - enquanto elas impactam o nosso modo de ver e nó

s participamos deste diálogo de publicacão de imagens - perceba se isso afeta o modo como você observa o Torrencial Massacre de imagens comerciais que subvertem os nossos neurônios - na televisão comercial e através de nosso mundo altamente infestado de logotipos.


Dos comerciais de carros até os bites de imagem que chovem na versão americana das Notícias.


Enquanto isso, ver todas as suas imagens aqui, é muito melhor que o TUBO.

Well said!

signed

Brilliant!

I feel fotolog is a stepping stone, a vanguard of creativity, unity and humanity that will expand open the minds and hearts of those still in dysfunctional darkness. I am honored to be a participant, sharing my part, adding it to the whole for I am humbled and expanded by what I view and learn here. Blessings to fotlog, may the positive energy from your creation bring vibrational integrity to our lands. Let`s hold peace in our hearts, then world peace follows!

wow! that`ll take a while to digest

At this moment, almost 28000 fotologgers. This is the best internet community I`ve ever been a part of. You wrote, "Fotolog with it’s democracy of picture takers and image artists is such fresh air. It is simultaneously Global and Local. " That is so well put. There is a taste of everything out here. It has definitley changed how I look at things. I stopped watching television a few years ago, and I don`t miss it at all. I still read news on-line, though sometimes wonder why I bother... I don`t trust what I`m reading most of the time. Fotolog is a refreshingly honest sociological and anthropological study. The images are straight from the everyday life of many interesting people and how they view the world - not the newsanchors in suits all regurgitating the same shit with the spin tweaked just right to pacify and further the interest of their sponsors and political affiliations. I hope Fotolog stays around for a long, long time.

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