Artist	Song
Simon and Garfunkel	Bookends
Art Garfunkel	The Same Old Tears on a New Background
Paul Simon	Kodachrome
Joan Baez	Fountain of Sorrow
The Who	Pictures of Lily (30 Years Remix)
Rod Stewart	Every Picture Tells a Story
Steely Dan	Peg
Patti Smith Group	Space Monkey
Blondie	Picture This
The Pretenders	Back on the Chain Gang
The Vapors	Turning Japanese
A Flock of Seagulls	Wishing (I Had a Photograph of You)
J. Geils Band	Angel is the Centerfold
REM with Natalie Merchant	Photograph
Peter Gabriel with Laurie Anderson	This is the Picture (excellent birds)
The Verve Pipe	Photograph
Mission of Burma	This is Not a Photograph
The Cure	Pictures of You
Ringo Starr	Photograph
Lou Reed	Sad Song

Comment:

Somewhere in the middle of the winter of 1995, I walked into an overnight shift and announced with vatic certainty that the next ten years would be all about the portability of associational media. Tavis, the guy I was relieving, said that was very interesting, but he was too tired to discuss it. And he went home. Really, that is the only just and proper response to such a statement.
Even though that sentence sounds about as nonsensical as W's war aims, I did mean something by it. And these ads from HP with the Cure in the foreground remind me of it.
Photographs are very much like songs: we assign feelings to them and call those feelings forth later by viewing them. Our increasing abilty to commit those moments to digital memory makes for interesting changes in the way we remember things. For instance, if we happen to assign feelings to a photograph and a song at the same time and later contemporaneously experience that same combination, well, it sets up an associational feedback loop between Wernicke's area and Broca's which may result in dizziness, nosebleeds, vivid daydreams and an intense yearning for chocolate digestive biscuits. The dark kind.
Or it may cause you to purchase an expensive multimegapixel camera. I don't know, marketing was never my forte.
It's worth thinking about. But not too hard.

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