Wishlist books

[zenie]

In terms of photographic books... yup!!!!1 it is HUGE!

In terms of dimensions/size is is about 12" album size and about as thick as a small packet of matches.

I almost paid £150 for it a few years back but ...shit happened etc etc etc.

In terms of my Own photographic lifetime and spiritual quest therein (HA!HA!HA!) those 3 books are my ALL.


*there is another book that I am soooooooooooo frustrated to not know the name of ...all I can remember of it is that it had a close up shot of a pheasent eye and surround feathers on the cover.

...and Jerry Ulsemann's Sonambulist is a pretty biggun to see too....but I keep away from that'en coz it makes me weep.

Well, you know I think *highly* of your creative opinions so I will take a look.

This isnt even my thread and I've commandeered it sorry Chorlton

 

[Firky]

No, not actually.
Sorry I'm going to pull you up on this one. I know you love a good blag firky, but is it really worth it sometimes?
All that sneaking around at work trying not to get nabbed printing off a 700 page manual.
Not to mention that it's another royalty that Martin Evening won't see For his hard work. I don't know him personally, but we're in the same business and I do know that the work that he puts into those books would put most people to shame.
I mean it's £18.50 FFS. If it were £70 I might hear you, but £18.50?

Sneaking around work? I'd just print it off, I was after all we'd be sent ink and paper for nowt and it isn't as though I'd print of 700 pages, merely the pages that interested me. A taster if you will.

Not that I have to justify myself to the likes of you, but all the same; having spent hundreds if not thousand of pounds on very specailist books from English Law, Philosophy of Religion to Graphic Design books, I think I have paid more than most when it comes to books. Probably spent more on Graphic Design books than any other book: The History of Graphic Design by Meggs, Versus X by Lars Harmsen, The Struggle for Utopia (excellent) by Rodchenko, The End of Print (quite apt!) by David Carson, Dictionary of Graphic Design by Isabella Livingston and of course, Stop Stealing Sheep and find out How Type Works by Spiekermann are just a handful of the books I liked enough to keep on the bookshelf to the left of me as I type. I have spent LOADS on design books - ones that actually teach you something rather than a paint by numbers Photoshop manuals.

Just like music, if I like what I hear, I'll buy it - I do the same with books. I will also give the books away to people when I am finished with them. Which is exactly what I did when I finished uni, I gave them all to the British Heart Foundation as well as simply giving them away to people who I know would benefit or like them. Or are you against that as well?

Now run along and stop downloading MP3s, capitalist jobworth!

You need to grow up sometimes firky, really.

Piss off!

 

[Pie 1]

capitalist jobworth!

lol!

 

[zenie]

Sneaking around work? I'd just print it off, I was after all we'd be sent ink and paper for nowt and it isn't as though I'd print of 700 pages, merely the pages that interested me. A taster if you will.

Not that I have to justify myself to the likes of you, but all the same; having spent hundreds if not thousand of pounds on very specailist books from English Law, Philosophy of Religion to Graphic Design books, I think I have paid more than most when it comes to books. Probably spent more on Graphic Design books than any other book: The History of Graphic Design by Meggs, Versus X by Lars Harmsen, The Struggle for Utopia (excellent) by Rodchenko, The End of Print (quite apt!) by David Carson, Dictionary of Graphic Design by Isabella Livingston and of course, Stop Stealing Sheep and find out How Type Works by Spiekermann are just a handful of the books I liked enough to keep on the bookshelf to the left of me as I type. I have spent LOADS on design books - ones that actually teach you something rather than a paint by numbers Photoshop manuals.

Just like music, if I like what I hear, I'll buy it - I do the same with books. I will also give the books away to people when I am finished with them. Which is exactly what I did when I finished uni, I gave them all to the British Heart Foundation as well as simply giving them away to people who I know would benefit or like them. Or are you against that as well?

Now run along and stop downloading MP3s, capitalist jobworth!



Piss off!

Oh jesus

 

[pengaleng]

go easy, the boys just found out his roots are jewish .... pmsl

 

[Firky]

Oh jesus

Come on the, Zenie - do enlighten me, and see if we can exceed 3 lines.

 

[zenie]

Come on the, Zenie - do enlighten me, and see if we can exceed 3 lines.

Why are you so angry with everyone?

 

[Firky]

because life's a big steaming pile of shit then you die!

 

[zenie]

because life's a big steaming pile of shit then you die!

OK

This isn’t the time or place for this conversation….

 

[pengaleng]

OK

This isn’t the time or place for this conversation….

who made you boss of the world then eh? jeebus?

 

[zenie]

who made you boss of the world then eh? jeebus?

So you want to disrupt chorlton's thread which was actually going alright with talk of how life is so shit and unfair do you??

errr..right ok...

 

[pengaleng]

So you want to disrupt chorlton's thread which was actually going alright with talk of how life is so shit and unfair do you??

errr..right ok...

couldn't give a fuck tbh, firky is a wanker.

 

[zenie]

couldn't give a fuck tbh, firky is a wanker.

That hasnt anything to do with Chorlton and his happy thread

 

[Pie 1]

Is she [tp] as charming in real life too

 

[pengaleng]

That hasnt anything to do with Chorlton and his happy thread

oohh!! oohh!! happy happy joy joy!!!

:|

 

[boskysquelch]

I had to promise not to fuck someone I'm desperately in luuuuuuuuuuurve with last night...even if she pleaded with me on bended knee...and she's jus NOW invited me round fer dinner. That steaming shite fer ye!!!!1

 

[pengaleng]

Is she [tp] as charming in real life too

'she' wouldn't know.

 

[zenie]

I had to promise not to fuck someone I'm desperately in luuuuuuuuuuurve with last night...even if she pleaded with me on bended knee...and she's jus NOW invited me round fer dinner. That steaming shite fer ye!!!!1

What did you do that for silly??

When is the book coming?

 

[pengaleng]

I had to promise not to fuck someone I'm desperately in luuuuuuuuuuurve with last night...even if she pleaded with me on bended knee...and she's jus NOW invited me round fer dinner. That steaming shite fer ye!!!!1

talk about setting yourself up to fail...

 

[boskysquelch]

talk about setting yourself up to fail...

 

[pengaleng]

((((squelch))))

I'll speak to you tomorrow init, see how yer willpower held up

 

[boskysquelch]

see how yer willpower held up

Nah this is HER over meh!!..big time..a no go whatever happens..she says...fact is she will ask and now that she's told me not to I won't be able to....grrrrr



she kills meh


btw I said the next time you ring up and if I'm with her you and her are going to have wordz...PMSLROFLMFAO!!!!...well I thought it was funeh...she dint...then got mega pissedorf coz I mentioned her bestest friend had a good crotch n belly after she'd already pointed out her tits...wimmin eh?

 

[pengaleng]

btw I said the next time you ring up and if I'm with her you and her are going to have wordz...PMSLROFLMFAO!!!!...well I thought it was funeh...she dint...then got mega pissedorf coz I mentioned her bestest friend had a good crotch n belly after she'd already pointed out her tits...wimmin eh?

and you wonder why she doesn't want you to fuck her...

 

[Stanley Edwards]

Why don't you wanabee exhibitionists do this stuff by email?

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Any book by Thomas Struth that I don't already have is always on my wish list. Don't have a copy of the Dandelion Room yet.

People have mentioned photographers here that are so obviously influenced by Struth. IMO he is the most influential of our generation, and yet few people in Europe no about his work.

 

[boskysquelch]

Why don't you wanabee exhibitionists do this stuff by email?

because then we wouldn't be able to wind_up wanabbe Artists like yow!

Never heard of Struth...therefore he must be shite.

 

[boskysquelch]

and you wonder why she doesn't want you to fuck her...

I made her soup and came home.

 

[boskysquelch]

yay!

got meh boook...pronto & in top condition tooo...the pickees are booootiful...and even more remarkable that I dared remember

 

[zenie]

yay!

got meh boook...pronto & in top condition tooo...the pickees are booootiful...and even more remarkable that I dared remember

Already??

Where the fuck from?!!

Biddlybee is 'borrowing' me a copy today - I best not be dissapointed squelch!

 

[pengaleng]

yay!

got meh boook...pronto & in top condition tooo...the pickees are booootiful...and even more remarkable that I dared remember

now go out and take some sodding pictures you waste of space

 

[boskysquelch]

Where the fuck from?!!

Clacton-On-Sea ...as it happens...and the dood sent it First Class...and at twice the price of the postage I paid...tops!!!1

@teeps..it's grey and flat n drizzly...already getting dark...but I'll do summit.


now all I need to be able to do is find the pheasent-eye book.

Pity I lost my other good books to a twat last year when I was looking for somewhere to live..notably

Flora Photgraphica (from the Serpentine Exhibtion of the same name, from back in the 90s) and Obsession by Bob Carlos-Clarke(signed/first edition circa '81)