"With bated breath, and whispring humblenesse." ~Shakespeare

I love taking pictures, and as much as I love my DSLR, sometimes it's just not feasible to carry it around every day and everywhere, so I've been meaning to get a decent camera phone, so I could take quick walk-away snaps and stealthy ones on trains as such   Unfortunately, I'm not too tech savvy, and was forever confused as to which one I should purchase after my last phone with a camera got lost.  Yes, I still use an ancient one that doesn't come with one, abominally backdated, I know!

In any case, I'm going to be picking up a new one tonight, the motorolla zine.  As I've said already, I'm not too tech savvy, but I want to give this camera phone a try as it did get a pretty decent review, what with 5 mp and all.

In any case, I stumbled on Joel Grey, the actor/camera phone enthusiast while skimming through the New Yorker, he just launched a book on it and has done a couple of exhibitions.  He says that "one of the things that I liked a lot was that, depending on the light, it does its own thing,” Grey said. “You don’t get exactly the right color, but sometimes it’s more interesting.”  Well, that is one of the very things that interests me about phone cameras, its got interesting flaws to flaunt.

Smell of books

This is just sad.

 

A couple of weeks ago, I came across this site (image above) at the local Borders, and it made me somewhat irrationally depressed perhaps.  Why? Simply because I love books, my love for books is both superficial and profoundly genuine.  I love looking at library shelves filled with large volumes of books, I love their smell, yes I do still sniff them out whenever I can.  I love analyzing the book covers because as the superficial do, I judge a book by it more often than not.  I love 'living' in fiction, I like to escape inside it.  Essentially, I love to feel the texture of the pages as much as I love the feel of the story and its characters. 

Consequently, I do not find the rise of the revolutionary 'kindle' to be happy tiding for the likes of me.  In any case, I was amused to find an interesting post by a post in New Yorker, which discussed the 'Social Dilemma of E-Reading.'  It's been said that "once everyone is reading online, individuals will no longer have to struggle with a text alone."  When you stumble across a difficult passage, there would be links to notes by other readers for clarification.  It's basically going to look something akin to the Wiki I surmise.  Not surprisingly, one of the things I sometimes I resent about online reading, particularly wiki articles is that the temptation to digress is overpowering.  Every sentence is comprised of at least four 3 dollar words/terms that you have the urge to look up.  This isn't necessarily bad and I shouldn't ever complain about a knowledge bank, but personally I find this distracting.  However, as far as an encyclopedia is concerned, I can easily tolerate it because that's its main function.  But all books? Nuh uh, I want my pages to flow without as much interruption as possible.  I also think it will stop making people from thinking/analyzing and try to decipher the puzzle on their own, basically it'll be almost like a calculator.  I hate math, I hate calculators and I should shut up now....but unfortunately, I love literature and I love books and I had to say it :-)

P.S. And I agree with the New Yorker post, I find books sexy, and wouldn't ever date a guy who carries a kindle around instead lol.

I think I am making a comeback to mindsay, simply because I have completely forgotten how to write and express myself.