From: Tripod Depot (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Dec 03 2005 - 08:59:02 PST
Brian Fry, 12/03/05, on 'Movies and "Market Capitalism"':
> Anna writes:
> "I also don't see how you can talk about people making their personal
> artwork and films as MARKET CAPITALISM."
>
> Well, I buy my camera on eBay. And get my projector from the thrift store.
> And film from the Kodak store. And process it at the film lab that charges
> me $12 a roll. Prints for $.30 a foot. And then I give it to the FMC (or
> Peripheral Produce), which rents or sells it and gives me a cut. Sure looks
> like "market capitalism" to me. I've got money, and I can spend it how I
> like, and maybe even turn a profit. Including on making personal artworks
> and films. Or on video games. My pick. Not that I'm exactly clear as to
> why that's supposed to be a criticism.
A criticism? Hardly. More like an epithet akin to "heresy", "godless materialism", "immoralism", "elitism"(!), "man by man, etc.", "meritocracy", "ochlocracy", "impressionism" (mais oui), "cynicism" (already), "evil, etc." et ad nauseam.
One would rather say "matter-of-factism". And here we come to your "my pick".
Well, rEally yours? Then what of
camera on eBay
projector from the thrift store
$12 a roll
$.30 a foot
give it to the FMC
maybe even turn a profit
As a chestnut has it "in the limitation one knows a Master". A possibility, ONE possibility... Provided that your camera profit is good for 6 days a week. The "side-track" will then be left for Sunday.
Tripod Depot
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