Valar Morghulis[1]
MidgePhoto said, 1700508938
Döstädning [1]seems to be a live topic in newspapers etc. Strictly I gather it relates to physical objects, but I suppose by extension it may include informational objects.
[1] Swedish, "death cleaning", decluttering and organising so the successors are not left with excessive piles of crap.
indemnity said, 1700521881
MidgePhoto said
Döstädning [1]seems to be a live topic in newspapers etc. Strictly I gather it relates to physical objects, but I suppose by extension it may include informational objects.
[1] Swedish, "death cleaning", decluttering and organising so the successors are not left with excessive piles of crap.
I think I might be better remembered for leaving a heap of money than a heap of photos.....I'd be content leaving neither.
MidgePhoto said, 1705787619
From thd Australian version of The Guardian today: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/jan/21/digital-afterlife-how-to-deal-with-social-media-accounts-when-someone-dies
(Well, arguably tomorrow, dateline and all that)
MidgePhoto said, 1708176627
indemnity said
MidgePhoto said
Döstädning [1]seems to be a live topic in newspapers etc. Strictly I gather it relates to physical objects, but I suppose by extension it may include informational objects.
[1] Swedish, "death cleaning", decluttering and organising so the successors are not left with excessive piles of crap.
I think I might be better remembered for leaving a heap of money than a heap of photos.....I'd be content leaving neither.
Lee Miller - model and photographer, mistress of Man Ray, Vogue's war correspondent, famously photographed in the recently late Mr Hitler's bath - left a heap of photographs.
Many years later, these have turned into at least a decent pile, if not a massive heap, of money.
The future arises out of what is possible today.
indemnity said, 1708178549
MidgePhoto said
indemnity said
MidgePhoto said
Döstädning [1]seems to be a live topic in newspapers etc. Strictly I gather it relates to physical objects, but I suppose by extension it may include informational objects.
[1] Swedish, "death cleaning", decluttering and organising so the successors are not left with excessive piles of crap.
I think I might be better remembered for leaving a heap of money than a heap of photos.....I'd be content leaving neither.
Lee Miller - model and photographer, mistress of Man Ray, Vogue's war correspondent, famously photographed in the recently late Mr Hitler's bath - left a heap of photographs.Many years later, these have turned into at least a decent pile, if not a massive heap, of money.
The future arises out of what is possible today.
Not sure how she's going to spend that.
MidgePhoto said, 1708179029
indemnity said
MidgePhoto said
indemnity said
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I think I might be better remembered for leaving a heap of money than a heap of photos.....I'd be content leaving neither.
Lee Miller - model and photographer, mistress of Man Ray, Vogue's war correspondent, famously photographed in the recently late Mr Hitler's bath - left a heap of photographs.Many years later, these have turned into at least a decent pile, if not a massive heap, of money.
The future arises out of what is possible today.
Not sure how she's going to spend that.
Well, leaving aside net present value and the possibility of investors buying large numbers of collections of no obvious great merit while the artists are alive, for not very much, which I suppose might be a business model suitable for Dragons wishing to assuage their hoarding instinct ...
She turns out to have provided for her descendants, which it quite pleases us to attempt to do in moderation, and for the society she lived in, which also motivates some of us.
At the Omega Point, when the whole of human civilisation, and history is reassembled in simulation in the mass of computronium the universe becomes, perhaps she'll get credit.
But meanwhile, she is remembered for what she left. Convertible to the money as specified.
indemnity said, 1708181303
MidgePhoto that's fab, however, if we're both looking at the same ports and recent images on here, I doubt very much if anybody will be faced with such a dilemma on their passing, unless tits and arse is a future currency. ;)
MidgePhoto said, 1708730800
MidgePhoto said, 1709736814
Morph01 said
I think I'll become a Zoroastrian. ;)
What is the take on photographic legacies as ascribed to Zoroaster, please?
Huw said, 1709738226
What normally happens to beautifully framed prints and paintings after the person who made them dies?
They get sold for a fraction of the frame costs, and some smart person buys them and puts his/her own art into the frames.
The original pictures go in the bin....
"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."
jamesreme said, 1709753052
"What is the take on photographic legacies as ascribed to Zoroaster, please?"
We couldn't give a monkeys. We'll be dead.
Morph01 said, 1709799255
Morph01 said
I think I'll become a Zoroastrian. ;)
The theory is that all possessions are destroyed. However, that didn't happen with Freddy Mercury's songbook, not sure about his other possessions. In any case, I'm not famous enough that my photos (with a few landscape exceptions for historical purposes) have any more than intrinsic value, so I'd rather they were dumped.
MidgePhoto said, 1734789579
One of The Economist's (a newspaper) Xmas picks for best books of 2024
The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care. By Carl Ohman. University of Chicago Press; 200 pages; $22.50 and £18
According to their review it covers the wider area not just pictures.