peggancie

makes me a little wet.

Because there is a leak in the roof directly above my computer chair!

I adore them a little too much...

words and ideas are very realistic which is a good thing to have in a situation like this, well in pretty much every situation i get myself into. You people are good as you bring Peg's floaty head back down to earth.

I believe what i said, its just that your not wrong.

If it comforts you at all my woop or three wasnt a blind eye to just being a zombie to whatever Patti said. I thought about it - very quickly but i thought and i only woop when i agree. And i have remembered, as i remember now.

The answer to your most probably hypothetical question is, i think they acheive greater awareness, even if we have news, the more we're told, the more we will remember, bit like revision, maybe.

And you didnt rip apart my views, there still here. Instead you just made me think more broadly about the situation, which is a good thing in my book.

I didnt mention technical ability at all. I agree that technically they dont have to be good, look at Robert Frank, he was like - feck the 'not photographing into the sun rule', had a go at it and has captured some of the most atmospheric photographs in the history of photography.

But i'm sorry but i believe you're very wrong about it makes no difference about the photographer, if they know the person or not. Mapplehthorpes photography of Patti will always have more depth and meaning compared to the photographers down the front because he was Documenting. They wer'nt Documenting, they were simply reporting, taking a purely factual photograph of - yes shes was performing on stage at Latitude, here she is guys. Where Documenting, you spend a much longer amount of time with your subject, whether this be a person, social group or landscape. You get to know them/it inside out and understand them more then just a, for this situation a performer, Mapplethorpe done this.

stomach turn, because your right. You really are.

I still believe what i said, and think in some ways i'm right too even though you have made me see i havent taken many things into consideration.

Its not as if i dont want to photograph performs but on my huge 'want to/have to do' list i want to photograph a performer in their every day to day life just like Eve Arnold who become a friend to Marilyn Monroe and photographed her in a very personal yet dignified manner http://www.magnumphotos.com/c/htm/TreePf_MAG.aspx?Stat=Photographers_Portfolio&E=29YL53IQ59I
I understand what you mean about that we need photographs 'The capturing and reporting of their art' is a lovely way to put it, but if i had to buy a photograph out of one which they were taking of her on stage or from Robert Mapplethorpes collection of his dear friend Patti Smith, such as the famous one of her on the cover of 'Horses' then of course i would buy his photography as it has greater depth.
Its just them photographers are limiting themselves surely. Anyone of the fans could have got a shot just as good as one of them photographers, i in fact saw a girl just doing that behind the bars. Maybe what i'm getting at now is pretty irrelevant but basically them photos which them photographers get are just boring.

peace -

of what your saying slipped into my mind, but i couldnt help but agree with her.

I did think about how shes a musician and how can she judge them because shes just as bad, but then i thought no! because shes spreading the word, and its frustrating her because they also have the power to spread the word too but in an even more powerful way.

I'm a photography student and am about to go do a Documentary Photography degree in Newport, so i take photography very seriously. If any one makes me cringe and then i'm afraid to say yes it is them photographers who were down the front, photographers that take the same boring pictures of performers on stage. If they realised how powerful the tool they had in their hands is and then i'm sure they wouldnt be standing there photographing musicians as i'm sure as hell aint gonna be.
And they ARE a form of Paparazzi because they are taking photographs of a famous person. I dont know how you couldnt call them paparazzi to be honest.

I understand where your coming from but when you start thinking about it all and looking at the whole picture i think she was right, very right in what she said.

i dont think she meant it as aggressively as it could have been received because i think she was just like - what are you doing, you could be making so much more of yourself as a photographer. She could have made such an impact on them, that their going to change their lives and make the most of their profession or maybe they would rather carry on taking the same shots which we have all seen before.

with culture it awakened my senses and taught me to embrace life in so many more ways then i already do.

Regina i believe deserves more then an 8, she would get a 10 from me, but its good we all think differently.
If you were there at the beginning of her set you may have heard a mad little child shout from the audience to her - 'I love you,' which she replied in her sweet sweet New York voice, 'I love you too.'
This was me! Regina has told me that she loves me too. Regina and Peggancie share the love.

I stood in the company of some kind strangers, a plastic bottle filled with wine and tears uncontrollably trickling down my cheeks for Patti Smith. How she and her dear friend as she called Lenny Kaye could hold a stage of that size is beyond my knowledge, the energy her presents generates is more then the amplifiers themselves and much more then the smoke machines which she was so unimpressed with. Its one of my favourite things when seeing artists fully in control of their performance. I couldnt have agreed more with her telling the paparazzi that they have got their photos of her now and should go take photographs of the suffering children in Lebanon.
Then on the sunday despite the pulsing sun which made me feel as i was about to keel over, everyone were determined to hear every word she spoke, she certainly is worth it.

I'm surprised what you say about David Jay's poetry set, i felt i understood his poetry first time round more so then some others. He made me think that a poet would be a good choice to marry.

Antony and the Johnsons are a 10 without a doubt, i really want to see him again though as my friends dragged (dramatised) me away as i would have got lost and our phones had run out of battery. I did have a half day dream/night dream though the night before about him performing and this was somewhat a beautiful performance in my mind to, then i woke up that morning to find some bastards had come into our tent when we were asleep, YES asleep and got our bags tipped the contents out and took our money, their was a lot of us too. I'm glad it just was money but if i find the shit heads they will no longer have any ball's or maybe breasts! I was so angry, as were my friends. We found it quite funny though about 10 mins later.

This festival was something i will never forget and i'm now going to try and go every year.

much love x x

ps this is so feckin' long and i have only mentioned 4 acts, i'm sorry for this, i could go on forever but i have already started to bore...

I am going, it seems as though not many others are as i did put a post out about it.

But it is kinda near my 'hood', 'Yard'....dog kennel, so there are lots of us Norfolk/ Suffolk folk going a long!

Everyone should be there! Its the first one too and so it will be something to tell the grandkids!

love x x