![The smell of autumn. The sound. Endless poetry has been written. It is one of the joys of the four seasons. It reminds us of the importance of the senses - there is a vitality in the changing seasons. The colors of the leaves pictured above. The sound of walking through them. The smell of the earth in the crisp air. The tactile sensation of the experience goes far beyond what can be communicated in image and yet more and more of our time is spent looking at things and less is spent touching things.The Onion ran one of my favorite headlines in recent memory: Report: 90% Of Waking Hours Spent Staring At Glowing Rectangles. I imagine that the next generation - the generation which lives in an increasingly virtual world of digital books, digital games, distant friends - may revolt. There might be a movement of the real. Like the Hollywood New Wavers of the early 70s trying to get at the human experience itself rather than derivative man-eating sharks and laser-zapping ships whooshing through space. Or maybe not. Today, the greatest asset of these glowing rectangles is not the experience they provide but the accessibility. The ease of escape. The low investment. One thing that cannot be argued about even the most advanced digital media of 2009 is that it has a lower resolution than even everyday occurances - the touch, the smell, the sounds and even the visuals - and yet it is the primary way that some of us navigate through our weeks.
[Photo: 35mm Fuji Velvia]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpb43ifbFB1qzzio5o1_500.jpg)
The smell of autumn. The sound. Endless poetry has been written. It is one of the joys of the four seasons. It reminds us of the importance of the senses - there is a vitality in the changing seasons.
The colors of the leaves pictured above. The sound of walking through them. The smell of the earth in the crisp air. The tactile sensation of the experience goes far beyond what can be communicated in image and yet more and more of our time is spent looking at things and less is spent touching things.
The Onion ran one of my favorite headlines in recent memory: Report: 90% Of Waking Hours Spent Staring At Glowing Rectangles.
I imagine that the next generation - the generation which lives in an increasingly virtual world of digital books, digital games, distant friends - may revolt. There might be a movement of the real. Like the Hollywood New Wavers of the early 70s trying to get at the human experience itself rather than derivative man-eating sharks and laser-zapping ships whooshing through space.
Or maybe not. Today, the greatest asset of these glowing rectangles is not the experience they provide but the accessibility. The ease of escape. The low investment. One thing that cannot be argued about even the most advanced digital media of 2009 is that it has a lower resolution than even everyday occurances - the touch, the smell, the sounds and even the visuals - and yet it is the primary way that some of us navigate through our weeks.
[Photo: 35mm Fuji Velvia]
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