july

I had a Stone-masoning / stone carving teacher once (one semester) who told me about how he used to go to these stone masoninng conferences, and there were people who had the best tools and they'd parade around the tools they had, but didn't make anything. But they did have the tools and how that was cool for them.

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

gear is finite, eventually you can get “the best” or at least approach it, whereas the craft itself is an asymptote and can never truly be completed.

much easier for the human mind to grapple with the gear than the craft itself, which is infinite.

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Gains in gear is worldly pleasure
Gains in craft is an otherworldly experience

photography is an easy example to visualize this:

there are only a few brands of professional cameras and lenses, maybe 5 or 6. and a couple lines of products within each. so < 100 cameras and < 1000 lenses to choose from.

whereas what you photograph with that gear is quite literally infinite, or for practical purposes only limited to what is physically accessible or visible from Earth (for now).

so thinking deeply about what to photograph is orders of magnitude more difficult a question to answer, than e.g. which lens or camera to choose. the latter is easily mastered whereas the former can never be mastered.