Dave — here’s hoping that your wish and vision for BURN that you shared at LOOK3 manifests. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7NoOhmVMac

Is Flickr touch sensitive ?

Patricia

(haha, funny visual of getting electrocuted in the tub with a magazine)..It’s not about touching the Mona Lisa, sheesh, you can be so obtuse..BEING at the museum is part of the experience of SEEING and THINKING about the Mona Lisa. For me anyway! If it’s just about seeing the Mona Lisa i don’t have to go to the museum, all i have to do is google the bi*ch! kabish? Burn and Foam, et al, they’re ALL good! I love The New Yorker. But does that mean i don’t also read books? Or The Daily Beast? (my guilty pleasure) or go to a movie? i mean, c’mon, Rafal..move over and share the wealth..magazines, books, Burn, photos on walls, all good!

best atcha
kat

thanks, grrl

kathleen

Actually, you touch on another big difference and that’s the trouble with monitors. There’s the good, the bad and the ugly. There’s large, small, cheap, expensive, flat, CRT, laptops, Macs, PC’s, blackberries, and whatever the hell else there is out there. So an essay published here has to run a virtual gauntlet of viewing devices while the photographer cross her finger that her message is getting through. A magazine is what it is. The only difference is the kind of light reflecting off its pages. I guess i treasure a great photography magazine because they are not sold here. When i get one in my hands it’s, well, it’s just a huge deal. So where would i be without Burn? Screwed. But do i occasionally cheat with the real deal? mmm….yeah..

Rafal, it’s not JUST about seeing! A book or magazine at its best is a very sensual experience. I don’t go to a museum just to see art. Part of the pleasure is actually being at the museum and much thought (and cash) goes into museum design and architecture to enhance that pleasure. I don’t buy a photo book to just see the photos but to hear the spine crack every so slightly and know i am the very first person to open that book and discover the miracles within. To feel and smell the silky–or stiff–or crisp–paper, to know how that paper bends, how it turns, how it falls into place over the page before it, to see the text, what kind of font was used, to read the words, always properly edited and all spellings just right, yes, to sink into the couch with that book, to arrange it on a table at a cafe just right so my cappuccino doesn’t spill on it. I don’t have a laptop so having the pleasure to peruse Burn at a cafe is not something i have ever enjoyed. But books? Magazines? ALL the time!

Yes, Burn is the wave of the future but it is not the ultimate photography viewing experience to me. not by a long shot.

Ok, ’nuff about this..take care, Both

kat

I love magazines, just ask my wife, they get way out of hand. I also love Burn and spend to much time on it.
But I’m with you Kat. I love lounging on the couch with a magazine, or, my favourite, in a very hot 45 min bath. It just ain’t the same on a computer screen. I’ve never actually held a laptop on my lap, or my stomach. Besides, resolution on a computer screen sucks big time compared to print.