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nfotxnIt struck me today that I regard talking to somebody using a computer to be about as tactful as talking to somebody who's presently talking on the phone as well. I was gaming with some friends and had my camera nearby. I took a few shots are realized that I was no longer present in the moment with everyone else. Even by virtue of carrying my camera around with me I am trying to stay connected here. I know from experience this only adds to the already crushing sense of isolation we experience in our modern lives. Our social lives are connected without a single OSI layer at their most natural. Depending on them in any capacity is of course a little toxic. All the bandwidth in the world can only transmit such a mild impression of anything of value.
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It's no secret that our economy is diversifying in things like intelletual property. Now the little problem is that we don't really have an sort of system to value IP hierarchially like we do for material goods. If we want to established an IP marketplace in culture we need to know the intrinsic value, the dollars and cents, of cultural goods like movies, music, literature, news media etc. First we need to classify IP more closely which I think includes an important temporal factor. The term at which the value of artistic performance (music, drama) and news media (video, images, dialog) is determined is immediate.It matures immediately into it's highest value not the moment it's created but the moment it's shared. The exception being moments of exceptional cultural worth.
The big problem is that the most effective economies need to be atomized to the nth degree for maximum effectiveness. As best we know is that as atomization approaches n the possibility for increased efficiency of the system becomes more favourable. But how do we atomize intellectual property further? What is an idea, song, image or diatribe exchanged for traditionally in culture? They translated into two things I can think of: emotions or other ideas. Which to me is an iron cultural roadblock. Who wants to be charged to think or feel?
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It's no secret that our economy is diversifying in things like intelletual property. Now the little problem is that we don't really have an sort of system to value IP hierarchially like we do for material goods. If we want to established an IP marketplace in culture we need to know the intrinsic value, the dollars and cents, of cultural goods like movies, music, literature, news media etc. First we need to classify IP more closely which I think includes an important temporal factor. The term at which the value of artistic performance (music, drama) and news media (video, images, dialog) is determined is immediate.It matures immediately into it's highest value not the moment it's created but the moment it's shared. The exception being moments of exceptional cultural worth.
The big problem is that the most effective economies need to be atomized to the nth degree for maximum effectiveness. As best we know is that as atomization approaches n the possibility for increased efficiency of the system becomes more favourable. But how do we atomize intellectual property further? What is an idea, song, image or diatribe exchanged for traditionally in culture? They translated into two things I can think of: emotions or other ideas. Which to me is an iron cultural roadblock. Who wants to be charged to think or feel?
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Date: 2004-05-02 10:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-03 11:00 am (UTC)That "not being present in the moment with everyone else" thing while taking pictures of friends is a bitch, ain't it? I think I've mised out on some of the best opportunities for pictures by not being able to give that up. I've also missed out on some good times with friends, but gained some killer shots.
Where to draw the line?
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Date: 2004-05-03 12:09 pm (UTC)When I first got my hands on digital cameras, which make it even easier to shoot constantly, I felt like I was missing out on a lot of the goings-on at events where I would bring the camera, usually car shows that double as get-togethers with friends made at these events.
I've slacked off on shooting constantly, and feel a little more connected...but then after the fact, I don't have as many pictures to stimulate memory.
Huh.
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Date: 2004-05-14 01:52 am (UTC)Along the lines of being present/not-present/too-present in the negotiating of information technology there are some interesting books that you’ve probably read or at least heard of. Here’s a quote from the beginning of J.G. Ballard’s edge-of-the-postmodern text Empire of the Sun which details Jim, the main character’s, interaction with the outside world through the lens of the car window of his parents’ Packard:
“Jim waited in the front seat of the Packard while his parents changed and their suitcases were loaded into the trunk. When they set off through the gates he looked down at the motionless figure of the beggar on his frayed mat. He could see the pattern of the Packard’s Firestone tyres in the old man’s left foot. Leaves and shreds of newspaper covered his head, and already he was becoming part of the formless rubbish from which he had emerged”
Also, I think the torture/assimilation scenes in Orwell’s 1984 might be interesting in thinking about your camera dilemma, particularly the moments in which Winston is faced with the face-cage of man eating rats. Creepy.
Cheers,
Darcy