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Re: Nature recordists group

Subject: Re: Nature recordists group
From: "Jim Morgan" fundador_four
Date: Mon Jan 16, 2012 11:39 am ((PST))
So am I

Jim Morgan

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Wil Hershberger <
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> I am with you on this Martyn.
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> Wil Hershberger
> Nature Images and Sounds, LLC
> Hedgesville, WV
> The Songs of Insects
> My Blog
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> On Jan 16, 2012, at 1:09 PM, Martyn Stewart wrote:
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> > Let me apologize for my knee jerk response to Bill Rankin's departure. =
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> should NOT have used the words I did... I feel deeply sad in Bill's
> departure.
> > I am dead set however in filtering out postings like the example shown.
> For those who do not approve of my methods, there are other places to for=
m
> groups....
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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 thi=
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> crap enters the group I will put it on moderation and those people can pi=
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> 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
> subscribe
> >>> to the group. I have seen a lot of different and interesting people
> come and go.
> >>>
> >>> However when you let pretentious bull shit artists take over and
>  dominate the group with stuff like
> >>> this :
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> >>> Louie,
> >>> "...the dynamically sublime confronts the subject with the sheer powe=
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> of
> >>> nature rather than its magnitude. Experiencing nature's power as
> fearful
> >>>> without actually falling prey to fear, the subject discovers its
> >>> superiority to nature =E0 its freedom. That is, the subject is recall=
ed
> to
> >>> its supersensible >destiny as a moral being precisely by being expose=
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> >>> its sensory vulnerability. The determination of the self by exterior
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> >>> gives way to its >determination from within, heteronomy to autonomy.
> With
> >>> the dynamically sublime, in particular, philosophy seeks to master
> terror =E0
> >>> the menace that >Derrida locates at the limits of philosophical
> mastery." T
> >>> This academic text explains my understanding of sublime in Kant. It i=
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> >>> to embelish nature this is the beautiful not the sublime.To discover
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> >>> own >freedom, to make the way from heteronomy to autonomy and finaly =
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> >>> "master terror", I think the way is in nature because it is in sublim=
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> >>> Derrida >explains.
> >>> regards,
> >>> Jos=C8
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> >> I no longer feel that this sort of crap has any relevance to wildlife
> sound
> >> recording  but then again my views are probably politically incorrect.=
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> >> come from the crusty old "Walter Knapp" school of wildlife recording.
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> >> Martyn
> >> *************************************
> >> Martyn Stewart
> >> www.naturesound.org
> >> www.soundofcritters.com
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> >> Redmond  WA
> >> 425-898-0462
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> >> 47.65420118705451
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> >> Make every garden a wildlife habitat
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> >> Listen to the Birds and the Bees at
> >> http://naturesound.libsyn.org/
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> > "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
> > sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Kraus=
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> > Yahoo! Groups Links
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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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