fire hydrants
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On photographs not taken.
Most likely, you are being watched. If you spend any time in urban areas, you surely pass by numerous surveillance cameras each day. Recent advances in computational image analysis allow the movements of every person in a crowd to be tracked. Big Brother has hungry, hungry eyes. Worse, you’re probably collaborating with the invasion of…
4th Amendment, Barry Friedman, big brother, cell phones, cops, data mining, evidence, exclusionary rule, fire hydrants, Fourth Amendment, government search, GPS, incarceration, internet service providers, ISP, mass incarceration, photography, police, policing, Policing Without Permission, privacy, reasonable suspicion, search and seizure, smartphones, snooping, unreasonable search, Unwarranted
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On Boyhood (the film), specifically the eleven seconds between 2:34:11 and 2:34:22.
One quick remark before I launch into this essay: I typically type these while N is playing at the YMCA, so I had to take several screenshots of the film before coming here so I could consult them alongside my other notes. But Apple’s built-in screencapture won’t function if the DVD player is open; I’d…
Adele Exarchopoulos, appearance changes after ingesting psychedelics, Blue Is the Warmest Color, Boxtrolls, Boyhood, cinema, computer workarounds, criticism, Do No Harm, Family of the Year, film, fire hydrant photographs, fire hydrants, harms caused by U.S. drug policy, Hero, hydrants, iminent arrival of Gargantua, intentional lack of functionality, Jack Kerouack, losing good words, On the Road, philosophy of the present moment, photography, psilocin, psilocybin, puberty as a special effect, screencapture with DVD player open, special effects, sucks, The Dreamers, the loneliness of artistic pursuits, unintentionally homophobic language, unintentionally misogynistic language
Frank Brown Cloud 