Posts by Damian Christie
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to giovanni tiso,
I was going to apologise but then
...you found something else to misinterpret, and diss rather than discuss. Good then.
I'm out. Of this thread. Last one out please turn off the lights.
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to merc,
I think the term you are looking for here is blog post
Ta Merc, you've probably just circumvented another week of cross-purpose discussion.
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to giovanni tiso,
So when you proposed that that link "fitted the general theme of the past few pages", you meant to be self-deprecating, and not characterise the discussion as one long white whine?
Again, we are in danger of me feeling you are deliberately misinterpreting what I'm trying to say. We had been discussing what makes people middle-class, people had discussed the 'well-adjusted' blog of yours, and then someone sent me that email. I forwarded it on. Because I thought some of them were funny. Turns out I might have been wrong.
Of course, some might say that yes, a whole lot of people with the luxury of the time and energy to be having the discussions we have been having over the past couple of weeks is very #firstworldproblems or #whitewhine etc. I didn't see too many people arguing whether "cafe", "public square" or "salon" was an appropriate metaphor for online discussion when I was in Afghanistan.
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to giovanni tiso,
On the other hand, it says that nobody in the third world has first world problems, which is equally unhelpful.
...and here's me just thinking it was kinda funny.
I personally prefer using the tag #whitewhine, but I wouldn't for a minute think that by using it I'm saying every single white person in the world is equal, or doesn't have issues, or doesn't cope with poverty, or has an iphone 4s. Or that all non-white people do. Not that I'm saying that's right, but I'm not quite sure how to show the appropriate level of self-deprecation in a hash tag after uttering something like "Nosh was out of chicken parfait"... #middleclassproblems? #well-adjustedissues?
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Where as I, on the other hand, have no class whatsoever.
And here's me thinking you were all class.
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Someone forwarded this to me yesterday. It seems to fit the general theme of the past few pages.
http://thechive.com/2011/08/29/20-first-world-problems-20-photos/
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Capture: City Scenes, in reply to ChrisW,
Could have been a publisher’s work, as for “Washday” purportedly near Taihape.
Could be. It was in Handboek, the beautiful compilation of her photography published in 2004. Not sure where that came from - the photo (rather crudely cropped) also appears in 1967's "Maori", but annoyingly none of the photos in that book have any credits.
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And here's one from Venice.
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I love that graf art too Sofie. I'm sure you agree, taking photos of graf art (for the most part) isn't about the photography, it's about the art, so I always feel odd sort of 'claiming it' as a photograph. Although I suppose you could say the same about taking a picture of a supermodel or something, when that's clearly not true.
Here's one I took in Dunedin, on my rollei. I don't often use colour film in it, but when I do I love the results.
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Capture: City Scenes, in reply to ChrisW,
Not sure whether that title of your Ans Westra photo is as she wrote it
Yeah, for the record, that's how it appears in her book.
