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Episode #68 – This Podcast is Being Recorded…

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Bob LeDrew said in June 10th, 2009 at 4:24 pm

Jay, I think you’re asking good questions, but I think the Raitt situation is not the best analogy. But I wanna get to the question that I think you’re asking — is the ubiquity of image making making us numb to it and its effects?

And I think it is. I think we are getting numbed to the effects of still or moving images, except when they suddenly jump out of the sea of images we’re confronted with. We can now be bombarded with images — both ones we create and ones we consume at a rate nobody could have predicted. Flickr, facebook, youtube, twitpic, on and on.

But I think they become visual static. I think we become inured to the endless flow unless they’re showstoppers. That’s why, I think, I like the Boston Globe’s “Big Picture” feature. These large and mostly amazing images are able to stop me, to make me look intently.

Most facebook shots? click click click, a thousand times an hour.

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Jay said in June 10th, 2009 at 4:35 pm

Thanks Bob, yes I think this is part of what I was getting at, but it was also the numbness of _being_ recorded, as well as being exposed to recordings. Its kind of sides of the same coin. Remember when audio/video recording was rare enough that some people would hear a recording of their voice and say “do I really sound like that?” I have a feeling, at least in our part of the world, that is phrase that’s rarely spoken these days, and certainly not by younger people.

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