PHOTOGRAPHY or PHOTOGRAPHICS

A guy really into photography will already spend tons of time on flickr, dpreview, corbis, webshots, interface lift and a host of other sites. Not to mention all the photoshop tutorials and tips out there that every PHOTOGRAPHER must know. Think about it, when was the last time you saw an untweaked photo out there on the net? Every photo is super leveled to the max, with the contrast jacked to god knows what levels. Exposure, aperture priority, shutter speed, depth of field, are all thrown out the window, they’re not longer a PRIORITY!

No PHOTO seems to be acceptable, unless its NAT GEO worthy. I mean come on, when was the last time the parakeet’s plumes looked so colorful? And I don’t recall the Yucatan rainforest being quite so super green!! Hey I’m all for tightening a photo so it can confirm to the confines of what we can actually see within the VISIBLE SPECTRUM with our Naked eyes. Removing Over casts, color casts, flushed images, shakes, cropping are all great. But I have to draw the line at sprucing up the contrast so much that the hudson river looks like a can of blue paint!!!

When is someone going to start a website for good old fashioned photos that aren’t tampered with. I long for the day when I can look at a photo’s meta tag and not see ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS4 OR ELEMENTS on it!!!! Come on guys, purists unite! Someone should start a website!

Photographers have enough to worry about as it is. There’s lenses, equipment, tripods, diffusers and lighting among a million other things. So now they have to be masters in 500$ software too? Go figure…. I long for the day, when an average guy had like 4 hobbies tops.  Instead of being a jack o lantern of all trades!

Why you can’t travel back in time

Time TRAVEL. IF someone could travel from the future into the past, they already would have. It doesn’t matter how far down the future it is invented, it just hasn’t happened. Otherwise, someone from say 3010, could have easily come back to 2010. So it hasn’t happened.

But that aside, there are actually 2 distinct pasts.

1. The NOW PAST
This is the now. The current present. Nobody can come back from the post millennia because IT HASN”T HAPPENED YET. Once it does, I will be in that future, to come back to the past of this today where I am actually typing this.

2. The B Past
The B past comes into effect only in the events after when this is possible. Either during the millennium or otherwise. Right now I am in lets call it the A past. But when I go to heaven / millennium, a new past will be created, the B past, which is exactly the same as my A past, with the exception that I can travel back to this new past now and relive my pleasant memories.

Why Aliens can’t have landed

For one thing, distance. The nearest star to earth is Alpha Centauri. An analogy of its distance, would be if the sun were a marble on a street in NY, then Alpha Centauri, would be a marble in Washington DC. The next closest star to that, would only be rio de Janeiro! Unfortunately, I forgot the time scale, but it takes way way longer.

The value of information obtained, should exceed the cost of obtaining said information!

Even if aliens could somehow survive the gargantuan expanse of space even between stars and come to earth, what would they gain from it? It doesn’t make sense to invest so much time and technology to visit some Neanderthal species that can’t even reciprocate the favor. Assuming that aliens couldn’t exist even within a radius of the closest 1000 stars. If they had that much choice and can detect maybe ultra gamma waves or something that emanate from space faring capable civilizations, they’d head in that direction. Instead of charting out to pre historic earth with its rockets.

SOL and close to speed of light travel are impossible anyway and even then it would take too long. And warping space, while good in theory couldn’t possibly exist in real life.

And since other civilizations have already started way before us and we’ve been around for thousands of years… Aliens could have made contact with us a long time ago, and they haven’t.

Think about it, everybody needn’t be as open minded as we are. If we could spend trillions of astro dollars to travel to the next 5^th closest star say, wouldn’t we like to gain something from it from a commerce standpoint? Which country is going to fund a space endeavor so we can visit some prehistoric nimrods in a star system far far away [not galaxy, that’s ridiculous]. This is why aliens aren’t going to spent centuries in space to visit us. Because what could they possibly gain from visiting a species so much more backward than them!!

Face it, Facebook

Time Space Energy
My take is that Orkut / face book might be good, but I just really don’t give a peep.  More like, I don’t really have the time!  You can only have SO MUCH on your plate.  And what with the ministry and all, I just don’t have the time or SPACE in my life to accommodate social networking.  I feel like I’m gonna explode as it is, leave alone face book.  So this kinda thing is good for people who have little or no life… NO OFFENSE INTENDED… I actually meant what I said… little or no life. With work, the gym, ministry and what not, where’s the time and the emotional ENERGY to keep up with FACEBOOK.  Oh and did I forget PATIENCE??
And … Patience
I mean seriously, there wuz this time when all this shamoly was new, not just networking , but blogs forums, threads… forwards… I remember how we always used to take time out to riffle through whatever drivel was out there. There were like a million ppt’s here and some funny videos there and couple of posts and shout outs…. Now there’s only so many beer commercials you can stand!

BFF for Never

Now I hate to put a bad spin on it and say that the one cool thing in our lives BFF (Blogs, Forums and Forwards) are starting to fizzle out.  But you gotta admit, people are kinda getting tired of the whole routine. You don’t exactly read that inspirational joke with bated breath, the way you used to…  So the thing is, that BFF is not lame per se, its just that too much of a good thing can’t be all that great.

To Kut OR not to KUT

Now its like you’re on Orkut for Orkut’s sake. Its like some kinda new fangled twisted hobby.  But I guess the hyper momentum of the whole social networking hoo -ha, blew itself out leaving a lotta people jilted and jaded. Brusied and burned.  So whaddya gonna do.  What CAN you do?…  I’m out.  I’ll get back to this once we extend the days in a week to 9!!