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How language suddenly, mysteriously, changes:

I’m not even going to go into the questions of Gulf War Syndrome, depleted uranium, or the more insidious post traumatic stress disorder that is transformed into a pathogen that attacks loved ones and society. I won’t even belabor that every single one of us, at the end of the road, is a casualty in this war. For now, I’m just talking about wounds, because the very word has become anathema to the Ken & Barbie media.

Brilliantly written by Stan Goff!

The Internet has made writing a difficult place to navigate – to live. I mean real writing. On the quality side are features that simply take too long to read and printing them out for the metro ride home when you rather look at the pretty little things in their uniforms… uh,uhm.

Likewise, writing for the Internet has become a challenge like Sisiphus trying to reach the shores. Daedalus reaching the sun… For those who work in it there’s something like a loss of balance, when you start writing code and thinking in cyber terms. Its no longer prose, it is some kind of poetry, sometimes, but most of it is tedious stuff. It’s writing with a different punctuation.

Taking pictures is an easy substitute that makes you salivade. It’s so easy

These guys are too much. They sort of make the Internet look like a children’s picture book. Bravo.

Decidedly this is news. And the rest is history. Like the Gaellic population says.

It may help bring the Olympics over to Paris.

For those who knew Edouard Stern, this may be news. Henri Pons is known to be concrete in his ability to gather evidence. How far will his evidence reach?

AND NOW REST FOR A QUIET EVENING.

Roll-film cameras are now archaeological artefacts. When I ask Vu Dinh what he thinks, he seems lost. Doesn’t want to talk about it. Suddenly turning around he grabs an Auchan advertising rag distributed everywhere: Fuji is offered for 3 € the 24 image film plus development and copies… Do I get this right? I mean 3 euro is less than the cost of the film. What is going on? Kodak will reduce their labor force by 360 (one for each day of the year?) since their labs no longer process enough roll film and even movies and this is the world-wide trend.

They’re moving to China, says Vu Dinh, cheaper labor. His wife agrees, they’re both from Vietnam and consider China like another planet. Roll-film as we knew it is gone, is dead. We’re already in the digital age.