this movie has gotta end

[jer64bear]

i don't take a lot of pictures. i should, but i usually end up breaking the camera. but i collect things. and i'm realizing the value of that. pictures capture a particular moment- often a forced smile, the same face. a staged event, but not the scene. objects require you to retell the story. relive the moment. it's similar to movies vs books...in

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[jer64bear]

Actually, by referencing 'staged events' and 'forced smiles', I was trying to relay that point- that cameras create a separation from the 'reality' of the scene, because of the forced recognition of the memory. For example, I have a bunch of pictures posing with my high school rock band...but the broken guitar pick I saved from one of our shows evokes a much stronger and more specific memory because of its natural contribution to the scene.

Besides particular objects, smells and songs often create similar effects...like the unique musty smell of my cottage basement, my father's shampoo when I was a child, listening to Death Cab's 'Steadier Footing', A Lighter Shade of Brown's 'Homies', The Grateful Dead's 'Uncle John's Band', etc. Reviewing posed pictures seems too passive. While I acknowledge the benefit of capturing appearances on film (to show other people, compare old fashion trends, etc), I find it more rewarding to relive (what I've named) 'fresh memories' (the first time you recall a past event since the initial event), because of its surprising and unique quality from not originally intending to record the moment (with cameras and such).

[moojew]

"I think he was referring more to the fact that a picture can't be taken without changing the scene; just having the camera present inherently changes the group dynamics. "

That was actually me. I forgot that I still had anonymous checked after having made fun of Mutter.

I know, I'm a horrible human being, but meh.