Wow. Do we have a cool library, or what?
Actually, my feelings about the new Rem Koolhaus-designed Seattle library are more mixed. It is a work of architecural extremes. Some bits are marvelous and witty. Some are butt-ugly. The colors are intense (red staircases, yellow escalators, puke-green mens room) except where they’re not (steel gray expanses, black ceilings, industrial railings). I don’t think I’d want to work there. It has a post-modern remoteness in the open spaces that is off-putting, the opposite of the cozy libraries where I spent my youth.
So the pile of unprocessed RAW images in the Inbox approaches a thousand, and I’m building a small library of textbooks to navigate these unknown waters. Real World Digital Photography by Eismann, Duggan and Grey has been my primary source, and I’m starting on Bruce Fraser’s Real World Camera Raw. It’s just that my eyes glaze over after about an hour and a half of reading one of these, and I need to go off for a bike ride to get my head clear. And pay attention to making a living on the side.
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