Mandy Martin, Puritjarra 2, 2005. For further information on MANDY MARTIN, refer here: http://www.mandy-martin.com/
If there are diverse kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing place, then we need to learn to value the different ways each of us sees a single place that is significant, but differently so, for each perspective.
adrift on a sea of information at a time when the world's night is a destitute time. In the age of the world's night, the abyss of the world must be endured.
--Adelaide is home. Relaxation is Victor Harbor. I'm a frustrated photographer who has lost his way in life.I have trouble coping in the technological mode of being of our complex digital world.
The pressure from advertisers to acquire the latest techno toys (eg., the adverts for mobile phones that take groovey photos) is very strong. Its a part of being cool, fashionable, free or postmodern. So this is quite salutory.
| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 3:24 PM | Permalink
There's a difference between people who love technology for its own sake, and people that use technology. I'm the latter.
I don't see the need for a camera in my mobile phone so I don't get one. Technology for me is a tool, not a toy.