[MarkWar]

>With cameras around their necks and a mandate to photograph whatever intrigued them, they went off for two weeks to document life in South Africa from their perspective--that of 8- to 16-year-old urban Los Angeles kids.

Can't read. Can't write.

Can make photo documentaries.

Somewhere Steve Jobs is smiling.

Everywhere, home school parents are saying, "Thank God we got out!"

Mark W.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Manufacturing more LIBERAL think.

[daviddennis]

Steve Jobs isn't smiling that much, although I was amused by the comment.

In order to use computers even passably well, you have to be pretty good at reading and writing. You can't understand video editing software if you don't know how to read. And you can't produce a compelling film if you can't write the script.

Even still photography is a lot more than pressing a button, and to understand why and what it is, you need to be able to read.

D

David H Dennis is a hobby photographer and video producer/director/editor.