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Hey, it's Al on film. Hi There. We are not here to preach about film or get romantic about it (although that is altogether possible my favorite soap box activity) just to say don't i look juicier, deeper, mauver (sp/wd), on film? ironically film is fucking expensive and remains a luxury because photography itself is a luxurious endeavor (although it rarely seems that way) and elitist and so it shall remain. elite/for the people - gotcha! ...some times the people you might choose to shoot do not make more than what your kodak roll is worth or maybe you don't make photos worth the price of your kodak roll but then again you might shoot stacks of chairs in abandoned schools or the entrance to a forest so green you see 12 greens and so there is no guilt there - just re-discovery and sometimes surprise and that there is the drugs...depending on who you are...anyway...I tried to explain to my mom once what the difference was between the pixelated photo and the emulsified one and all I could come up with, of course, was a fruit metaphor. I likened one to a ripe, heavy, marigold colored mango...dense, drippy, tangible, tasty...and the other to a mealy apple...red green or blue (RGB/CMYK, yo), it doesn't really matter.

Drama Queen!! then again i hear you can buy b/w film in bulk and load/change it in your bathtub so of course to each their own ETC and everything has its place and love is but one point in time and one man's contax is another woman's canon 5D so there you go...

Al - Bushwick