Technology has sped everything up. We live in a so called globalized world. A world of haves and haves not. Fad diets, Biggest Losers and people that struggle to eat. We live in a world of detachment. We are detached from the decisions we make, the actions that we take. Bombs sent from remote drones by operators on the other side of the world. Shareholders receiving dividends from mining companies and other subjective evils according to LOUD SPACE'S own subjective opinion, though with out doubt has benefited from some these evils or at least been corrupted in some way since man and womans original fall from the Garden of Eden.
We are detached from the materials and modes of production for the items we buy. It is a world of beauty and sadness. Contradiction and redemption. Eat in or take away. Caged or Free Range. Smoking or Non Smoking. Right and wrong.
Lara Bingle flushed her engagement ring down the toilet. The new headline of the Herald Sun. Everyone has an opinion, and an asshole, an elderly gentleman said to me. It is sad and voyeuristic that that is all I remember from todays news. The flushing of a $200,000 engagement ring.
It is an example of the media ability to shape what we read, but in all honesty I could have read something else, but the media momentum had built to such a degree that I had to read the next chapter in a couples own private saga. A banner at a New Zealand cricket field yesterday said "Clarkey, where the bloody hell are you?"
What has happened in Haiti? Iraq? The Democratic Republic of Congo? We forgot to remember. The media storm has moved on. There's so much happening in our own lives. Dinner to make. Clothes to wash. Bills to pay. People to visit. Another stabbing. Another suggestion to join Costco.
The sun was out today, a perfect day for the beach. But you stayed inside and grew older. You put it off till tomorrow. What was your life like before the internet?
You knew you shouldn't but you did, favours for favours, an ulterior motive in your behaviour, but does that take away from a good deed? Subjectively, of course it does.
The photos above were taken by Robert Capa during D-DAY.
"Capa's most famous work occurred on June 6, 1944 (D-Day) when he swam ashore with the second assault wave on Omaha Beach. He was armed with two Contax II cameras mounted with 50 mm lenses and several rolls of spare film. Capa took 106 pictures in the first couple of hours of the invasion. However, a staff member at Life in London made a mistake in the darkroom; he set the dryer too high and melted the emulsion in the negatives in three complete rolls and over half of a fourth roll. Only eleven frames in total were recovered. Capa never said a word to the London bureau chief about the loss of three and a half rolls of his D-Day landing film.
Although a fifteen-year-old lab assistant named Dennis Banks was responsible for the accident, another account, now largely accepted as untrue but which gained widespread currency, blamed Larry Burrows, who worked in the lab not as a technician but as a "tea-boy". Life magazine printed 10 of the frames in its June 19, 1944 issue with captions that described the footage as "slightly out of focus", explaining that Capa's hands were shaking in the excitement of the moment (something which he denied).Capa used this phrase as the title of his autobiographical account of the war, Slightly Out of Focus."
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