notes on weaving digital

note: importance of preserving the past traditions"The fabric they weave and wear is a fabric of memory, of communal identity, of their connection to the rest of humanity."/ technology is derived from weaving/technology is a disconnect from the past and avoids the natural world/ technology think tradition is a instrumental tool/  photoshop and photography are one in the same/

Gabrield Teshome is a cinema, theatre and film professor at ucla. He work closely with third world cinema. Third world cinema focuses on the truth and tradition of story telling. 

The article discusses the importances of perservving the past, implying that technologies has advance to the level where it could relinquish the traditions of the past such as weaving. Technology is also seen as unnatural and a way that it takes away the tactical form of hand crafting. Weaving seems very important to the author, stating that "The fabric they weave and wear is a fabric of memory, of communal identity, of their connection to the rest of humanity". Weaving is a spiritaul, mental and traditional aspect of a person and their family, passing the work through generations and passingon the skill to the laater generations.

He later imply that technolgy and the past are interrelated, in a way that, we can see spiritually, emotionally and tactically. Though the funtions of cropping painting, layering and other weaving terms are incorporated within photoshop and other digital programs. He also stated that photoshop is mentally related to weaving, in vocabulary and knowledge wise. Digital programs is used as an instrumental tool, meaning, if a person with no digital experience with photoshop was previously introduced and inacted with weaving they would already posses the skills to work with the tools of photoshop.


Can photoshop and actual weaving be considered the same? the tactics are different though the concept is the same. 
Is technology leading people to the unnatural or is it exposing some naturalness to those who can not see the natural, so is it a transporter of the natural? and is it really a disconnect from the past or does it provide us information of the past?