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Date: Mon Jan 16, 2012 10:43 am ((PST))
I am with you on this Martyn.
Wil Hershberger
Nature Images and Sounds, LLC
Hedgesville, WV
The Songs of Insects
My Blog
On Jan 16, 2012, at 1:09 PM, Martyn Stewart wrote:
> Let me apologize for my knee jerk response to Bill Rankin's departure. I =
should NOT have used the words I did... I feel deeply sad in Bill's departu=
re.
> I am dead set however in filtering out postings like the example shown. F=
or those who do not approve of my methods, there are other places to form g=
roups....
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> On Jan 16, 2012, at 8:38 AM, Martyn Stewart wrote:
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>> I will not let this group turn into anything else other than what it was=
set up to be...
>> When someone like Bill Rankin leaves because of postings like this then=
this is when i will step in and filter out the crap...
>> We have lost some amazing recordists here only to be replaced by artists=
that I consider pretentious.
>> I'll get a lot of stick for this but I do not care, If any more of this =
crap enters the group I will put it on moderation and those people can piss=
off and form their own group..
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>>> Yes I think I was one of the first 20 or so nature recordists to subscr=
ibe
>>> to the group. I have seen a lot of different and interesting people com=
e and go.
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>>> However when you let pretentious bull shit artists take over and domin=
ate the group with stuff like
>>> this :
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>>> Louie,
>>> "...the dynamically sublime confronts the subject with the sheer power =
of
>>> nature rather than its magnitude. Experiencing nature's power as fearfu=
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>>>> without actually falling prey to fear, the subject discovers its
>>> superiority to nature =88 its freedom. That is, the subject is recalled=
to
>>> its supersensible >destiny as a moral being precisely by being exposed =
to
>>> its sensory vulnerability. The determination of the self by exterior fo=
rces
>>> gives way to its >determination from within, heteronomy to autonomy. Wi=
th
>>> the dynamically sublime, in particular, philosophy seeks to master terr=
or =88
>>> the menace that >Derrida locates at the limits of philosophical mastery=
." T
>>> This academic text explains my understanding of sublime in Kant. It is =
not
>>> to embelish nature this is the beautiful not the sublime.To discover ou=
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>>> own >freedom, to make the way from heteronomy to autonomy and finaly to
>>> "master terror", I think the way is in nature because it is in sublime =
as
>>> Derrida >explains.
>>> regards,
>>> Jos=E9
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>> I no longer feel that this sort of crap has any relevance to wildlife so=
und
>> recording but then again my views are probably politically incorrect. I
>> come from the crusty old "Walter Knapp" school of wildlife recording.
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>> Martyn
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> sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause.
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"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause.
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