#print is dead

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source: Bob's Burgers. S7E3: "Teen-a Witch"

[trilliandraws]

Hermit Life #485: West Coast Is Better Anyway

[imeugene]

CAPTURED: The Death of Magazine Covers

I think this is one thing that social media effectively killed and didn’t really replace. It was once the most coveted spot for photography. Front and center and always had that esteem that this was the most important piece of BMX in the past month and all the subscribers should definitely know. To pros maybe a bonus on the paycheck but symbolically it was like real confirmation into entering the industry world that BMX really needs.There really is no alternative today. Zines exist but they’re too underground for their covers to feel meaningful. Having a picture posted on a major site is cool but when the internet is all about quantity, it’s hard to take anything seriously when the next hour post that takes your spot is some random’s bike check or an update on someone’s vlog. The cover was something like Christmas where it happens once in a timeframe, it’s limitedness that gave it the mystique and power.

The ease of video definitely helped bring a downfall in BMX photography. In a completely action oriented thing like BMX, it makes sense. Something not action oriented like fashion, photography still thrives cause of the importance to what is being shown, than what is being done but we celebrate movement and video is simply photography in motion. That isn’t to say that photography is inferior in anyway to video as a medium. It’s not really comparable, just that widespread use of video make sense. 

What photography can do that video can’t is expand on the notion that a single frame of a moment is more important than everything else. It’s the same mentality behind what makes covers so esteemed. It’s limited nature is the very thing that makes it’s own. In video you watch a trick and it blurs into a beginning, middle and end. All of it for the most part given equal importance. Photography negates all that and has an ability to let a singular moment shine. Something that can easily lost in video form when action in involved, something like a really dialed turndown works. The moment where the trick is completely clicked, photography can emphasize that to it’s entirety. Every single motion stopped. How someone’s head is turned, arms are folded, the small nuances are all given life and time to be completely examined in the watcher’s given time. Video can try to emulate this with slow-mo and what not but in the end, the clips ends in a limited time frame then onto the next. With photography there is a greater sense permanence than even something like DVD’s. It’s everlasting to exist in just one way. That’s why the internet is terrible way to showcase photography beyond the whole pixel thing. The nature of the internet kind of takes the impermeance of away and relegates it to a slideshow reel, something like print is the true presentation for photography in the same way the movie theatre is often thought to be the same for video. 

When I was thinking of BMX covers, I immediately thought of this first. It’s kind of strange cause it’s not really that BMX but to me and I know a lot of people it’s iconic. The way his dog’s tongue is flopped around would be something given less impact if it was video. The chill cruise nature of Jason Enns also not given the necessary importance to make it memorable. The close fisheye giving it real importance what’s happening directly in front of us. Even the blues that Jason Enns is wearing matching the sky. This happened cause I had time to really delve into what makes this picture amazing. If it was in a video section mixed in with a bunch of riding clips it’d probably just be relegated into to quirky clip of Jason Enns riding with his dog more than likely, lost in the series of moments that video become. Video has it’s strengths but giving emphasis to a singular time is definitely not one of them. I miss the whole concept of a cover. It was the photography equivalent of having last section for a magazine but instead it’s first. 

[ratinasuitproductions]

Over the weekend, I visited UKGE and picked up some great artwork for my walls, and I thought I’d share what I got.

The four smaller prints are by Print Is Dead - (https://www.facebook.com/printisdeaduk/?locale=en_GB) The larger piece is by lemonpip - (https://www.instagram.com/lemonpipp/?hl=en)

[print-is-living-dead]

Ghostbusters 1984: "Print is Dead"

Scene from Ghostbusters with Janine (Annie Potts) and Egon (Harold Ramis). Featuring the classic quotes, "Print is dead" and "I collect spores, molds and fungus." https://youtu.be/D3v_ogRaTf4

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[donttalkaboutdust]

Just Pinned to Print Is Dead: http://ift.tt/2GWRNqf

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Just Pinned to Print Is Dead: Rediseño de la revista Pymes en base a la grafica constructivista.Trabajo para la materia Tipografia II Catedra Gaitto, FADU, UBA, 2012. http://ift.tt/2oBRHOc