Unfortunately I've not been feeling well, so I'm going to have to take a few days off. (Ctein is off this week too.) TOP will return in a few days. Sorry for the interruption in service; we shall return.
—Mike, TOP Household Staff
P.S. I have seen the Globe and Mail article that mentions us, so no need to send me more tips about it and links to it. Thanks though!
Take care and get well soon.
Posted by: Animesh Ray | Tuesday, 25 June 2013 at 04:16 PM
The piece in Globe and Mail is utterly stupid. Sorry, Mike.
Posted by: Yger | Tuesday, 25 June 2013 at 09:14 PM
Stupid article stating the dilema about the ubiquitous digital snap. Sort of along the lines pictures have to tell a story else they are shot only for selfindulgence (a more civilized term then the word masturbation used in the article) played out in 6 billionfold on Facebook each month.
So a picture only obtains value if it is part of a photographic essay (like Mary Allen Mark did) and does not have a value on it's own. And that should be shot analog.
That is like saying the Demoiselle 'd Avignon has no value because it does not tell a story about prostitution. Or devaluating Ansel Adams shots of the great outdoors because they didn't tell a story about illegal logging.
In short the average shortsighted, soundbite filled noncense you can expect from an avarage journalist.
What he observes correctly though, is that most of the photo's you see today are utter crap guilded by camera technology that more or less makes the worst P&S better then a Nikon of the 80th. Well in that he's absolutely right and most of the papers contribute to that (and profit on that) by being adorned by absolutely inferiour photostock plucked from the Internet.
So instead of ranting to the public he should rant to his editor in chief and exept the pink slip and stop boring his readers (and stop bothering Ms. Mark).
Greets, Ed.
P.S. My blog will be dead at juli 5th. So will be my commercial website.
Posted by: Ed | Wednesday, 26 June 2013 at 01:58 AM
Take it easy Mike. Get well soon.
Posted by: yip | Wednesday, 26 June 2013 at 02:14 AM
Wish you a good recover, ciao
robert
Posted by: robert quiet photographer | Wednesday, 26 June 2013 at 06:25 AM
Take the time you need. Be well.
Posted by: Burdette | Wednesday, 26 June 2013 at 09:57 AM
Get well soon Mike.
Posted by: Patrick Dodds | Thursday, 27 June 2013 at 04:50 AM
I feel your pain, I've been sick for two days with a stomach flue. I hope that you get better soon.
Gord
Posted by: Gord Millar | Thursday, 27 June 2013 at 08:35 AM
Hope you are okay. Don't push yourself.
Posted by: Thomas Hill | Thursday, 27 June 2013 at 03:05 PM
Get well soon Mike.
Best wishes.
Posted by: Marcelo Guarini | Thursday, 27 June 2013 at 05:20 PM
Hopefully not a fall out of reading http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2013/06/weirdest-book-review.html
Get well soon, I miss your posts.
Posted by: Guy Platt | Friday, 28 June 2013 at 01:37 AM
Hey man, are you OK???
Posted by: Yger | Friday, 28 June 2013 at 03:42 AM
Hope you get to take it easy and feel much better soon.
Posted by: William Furniss | Friday, 28 June 2013 at 07:04 AM
Hmm. Thinking about MJ and hoping he's feeling better today??
Posted by: David | Friday, 28 June 2013 at 09:16 AM