Sarah Genner commented on a pic of mine on flickr very recently and I wanted to answer her implied comment question on one of hers when I found a true gem.

To me graffiti is an art from, and a valid one. Men have been decorating the walls of their caves for time immemorial. Still… today this is a rather controversial issue in some Swiss cities, and I have seen wonderful graffiti being defaced by the concept of white walls and lifelessness itself.

Among the handful of newspapers, read old paper media, that I have grown to appreciate over the years, the NZZ is among them. Although this publishing house’s venture into the internet has looked rather painful on occasions, I am quite refreshed with the sight of things like the NZZcampus.

The media is learning. Are the rest of the folks also learning?

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Terminology and other confusing matters:

Photograph: a very last century expression for something of an image made through the lens of some objective and inpregranted in some form of silver halide or otherwise photosensitve substrate.

Pic: what I call my lower quality digital images that I shoot rather casually and without much thought to either composition or… duh quality.

Pix: a term that I picked up from David when we exchange notes about his moblogging activity and that to me equates to the kind of spontaneous shots that are taken with mobile phones and that go along documenting one’s life and activity.

Mobloging: a mash of mobile+blogging that I use mostly to designate those commentless pix that are beamed up to the internet within minutes or seconds of being shot. Text is not excluded, but I rarely add text to my pix.

Note that this is how I use these words and it may differ from how others use it. I can not at this time find the motivation for checking such things out and trying to find the right term, so I am going with what is at hand and already in use.