Constant Agitation is my place to ruminate about life’s details and to show off some photography.
The phrase comes from directions for developing light sensitive film or paper. When photographers used to spend vast amounts of time squirreled away in a darkroom, a sheet of exposed photo paper would be slid into a tray of developer and the image would start to emerge. Constant agitation was required to keep the fluid active and moving over the surface of the paper to prevent streaks and insure the thorough emergence of the luscious silvery goodness that was silver halide photography.
Constant agitation is also that burning irritation that comes from rubbing up against life.
Asides
May 26, 2023, Electron Microscope image of a cow.
Image of a tiny bovine finally captured with advanced imaging technology.
Such a deliberate path, such a clear idea of where the bird was going.
A clear, beautiful day on the beach of Greenwich Point Park.
As spotted by my brother as we were driving along a local back-road, while we were waiting for the power to come back on at the house. He sees things I do not.
Thoughtful Agitations
Science fiction is an existential metaphor that allows us to tell stories about the human condition. Isaac Asimov once said, “Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinded critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction, its essence, has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all.”
Grell, from Stargate SG-1, episode 200
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People are social creatures. We want companionship, love, touch. We surround ourselves with loved ones during major life events, and death is the ultimate life event.
Ken Budd
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[Journalism is] the work of finding truths about a place and the people who live there — a neighborhood, a city, a nation, a planet — and sharing those discoveries with transparency and accountability. Simple as that.
David Von Drehle