January is the prescribed month for resolutions. OK, how about this one...? Since art imitates life, can our camera pros (print & video) resolve, for heaven's sake, to try something fresh and new...? They've been using the same warmed over shots and angles since forever!
Sports...? The same bared teeth and jutting index fingers. Celebrities...? The same glamor poses and caught-off-guard-at-the-beach fatty shots. Tragedies...? The same intrusive closeups of the victim's weeping family. Candidates...? The same carefully planned casual look. Advertising...? The same smiling faces grinning into the camera or romping lyrically across meadows.
If this seems cranky, look at it this way. Today's cameras -- large and little -- are everywhere everytime everyday. We're drowning in this stuff, every gene in our body titillated with images, every circuit in our brain stimulated by what someone with a camera has decided we should see. OK, if that's the deal, can they please please resolve to give our poor battered senses something different...
....say like they always do on those pretty Hallmark Cards?
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Although I love them to, those pretty Hallmark cards are just as planned and as rote as the poses of all the people you describe. I think we just enjoy the cards a little more!
ReplyDeleteDamn it, Cheryl, I suppose you're right. So much for my Hallmark Card delusions!!
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