26th February 2010, 11:45 AM
(This post was last modified: 26th February 2010, 11:48 AM by Unitof1.)
Grey Literature does not have be be Grey blocky set out in word with a few shots of a trench and an average quality location plan.
It wouldn’t be grey then
Hosty the future which should be now is digital and it probably should be video. As it happens I did Dorrels photo course. To have students trying to learn about digital through wet chemistry is frankly a waste of time. 9o% of digital is computers 90% of wet chemistry is dark rooms. In the good old past producing site reports/the record was a nightmare of established hierarchies of jobs which could probably trace their practises back to illuminating manuscripts in monasteries. Remember manual typewriters and carbon paper. Where we are at is the molas contact sheet, but without the paper, done in real time, by archaeologists that are at least university capable.
Unfortunately we have still got briefs requiring wet chemistry and that single requirement means that we have got to cart redundant equipment around site and the whole pantomime that goes with it. The wet film pic that I took of my beautiful drain is still in the camera. To make it available for general public consumption I have got to get it out of the camera, stand back I am a professional, put in the post wait for it to come back and then if I wanted you to have a look go and get a copy made put it in the post…which is pretty much
What your
Illustrator / GRaphic Designer (and if they do they are often paid way below),
a Site Draughtsman
a Photographer
were doing most of the time
And these practises comes down to wasting time and resources on site when what we should be doing is using the digital medias to their full
can I upload video to this site?
It wouldn’t be grey then
Hosty the future which should be now is digital and it probably should be video. As it happens I did Dorrels photo course. To have students trying to learn about digital through wet chemistry is frankly a waste of time. 9o% of digital is computers 90% of wet chemistry is dark rooms. In the good old past producing site reports/the record was a nightmare of established hierarchies of jobs which could probably trace their practises back to illuminating manuscripts in monasteries. Remember manual typewriters and carbon paper. Where we are at is the molas contact sheet, but without the paper, done in real time, by archaeologists that are at least university capable.
Unfortunately we have still got briefs requiring wet chemistry and that single requirement means that we have got to cart redundant equipment around site and the whole pantomime that goes with it. The wet film pic that I took of my beautiful drain is still in the camera. To make it available for general public consumption I have got to get it out of the camera, stand back I am a professional, put in the post wait for it to come back and then if I wanted you to have a look go and get a copy made put it in the post…which is pretty much
What your
Illustrator / GRaphic Designer (and if they do they are often paid way below),
a Site Draughtsman
a Photographer
were doing most of the time
And these practises comes down to wasting time and resources on site when what we should be doing is using the digital medias to their full
can I upload video to this site?