IT'S THE MOST FUN YOU
CAN HAVE
WITH YOUR CLOTHES ON...
From
the Scottish Photographic Federation`s magazine, with thanks to Editor Ian
Lang for allowing its use.
Following
the arrival of the terrific news that Maurice Dobson is picking up the gauntlet
and continuing the series of
Audio-Visual Workshops/Performance days, call them what you will. I
thought I might bring you a little something from
the pages of "Back Projection"
..... but most thanks to the man
who first seized the oriflamme in the 1940`s and carried it
high on our behalf ever since: good friend, good critic, support and
inspiration to all who know him -
Michael Ticker FRPS FRSA.
A-V or not A-V, that is the question:
Whether `tis nobler in the end to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrages
boredom,
Or to take arms against a sea of visuals,
And by opposing mend them?
To
try,to keep the mis-takes
And
the thousand nature shots
That
flash is heir to: Oh, a conflagration`s
Devoutly to be wished.
To
cry, to weep, to sleep: perchance to scream.
Ay, there`s the club who`s members
in a
Dark
seance inflict upon a weary throng
A
sleep of death that urges us to
Shuffle
from this awful toil.
For
who can bear the quips; the scorns of time;
The projector`s wrongs; the long
delays;
The
pangs of un-prized ones lamenting
The jury`s insolence of office who merit
To
the unworthy give?
And
un-discerning countries from whose bournes
Most travellers return with skills
unsung,
makes us rather bear those fools we have
Than
fly to others that we know naught of.
Thus A-V doth make cowards of us all
Who
lack ideas and bright imagination.
And enterprizes of mere slick technique
Are sicklied o`er with my recurring
doubts
And lose the name of entertainment.
Michael Tickner.