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Aw jeez, this is really depressing
by habitue 8y ago
Aw jeez, this is really depressing
- seba_dos1 8y agoHow about removing books from photos? ;)
- dymk 8y agoWould you think the same of an art project that removed, say, watches from people's wrists as they check the time? Or maybe hammers from the hands from people working in construction?
- rwc 8y agoNo, because these things don’t isolate us from each other. You have a number of couples in the photographs that are close physically yet miles and miles apart.
- matte_black 8y agoThis is nothing new. Couples have been physically together yet miles apart way before phones came around, and still are.
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- HumanDrivenDev 8y agoOh yes let's all remember 2005 when no one ever looked in the mirror and everyone in big city public transport held hands and sung folk songs on their morning commute.
- jazzyjackson 8y agoFor the record I have sung songs with a subway car full of people on Chicago's Red Line. Was not during commuting hours tho. Alcohol was probably a bigger factor than the presence of cell phones.
- berbec 8y agoThe N train was the "3am Disney Sing-a-Long" after the bar on my friend's ride home to Queens.
- dymk 8y agoAre you honestly saying that this (neat) art piece, which is of carefully curated shots taken over months, is general proof that phones are some fundamentally different mode of isolation, compared to any other tool that humans have had?
- l33tbro 8y agoI would actually be interested to hear you explain why, in terms of social isolation, phones are not a fundamentally different mode of isolation than any other human tool.
- dymk 8y agoThat's not how burden of proof works :) I'm not the one making the claim that phones isolate us differently.
- apocalypstyx 8y agoI sometimes wonder if it is the ubiquity of the phone that allows us to use it as a framework (or that it reveals in some egregious way we cannot ignore) a fundamental social state of modernism that has, in one form or another, been there since its inception. And that we an ignore this because, prior to the contemporary age, there remains so little detailed record if the lives of the, for lack of a better term, masses. Now everyone can comment on youtube videos no matter where they're at in the world or what else they may be doing at the moment. So that we are overwhelmed with our own banality, subsumed beneath a flood of images and messages that we are beginning to feel in some instinctual sense, can never approach in even the most rudimentary of ways, that which we have called communication.
- salmanarshad321 8y agoSocial media are designed to be as addictive as possible. Smartphones have replaced a great number of tools and devices. At the end of the day it's up to the individuals to not spend a lot of time on their phones, but, I can see it's hard for most people. At least around me (including myself). Another thing I've noted is the exhaustion experienced after spending a long time on your smartphone.
- gibolt 8y agoOne that removes cars, airplanes, and horses would be great
- matte_black 8y agoIt would be a cool web project to have photographs of scenes where you could dynamically choose what to remove from the scene.
- gus_massa 8y agoSomewhat related "Automatically “block” people in images using a pretrained neural network" https://github.com/minimaxir/person-blocker https://github.com/minimaxir/person-blocker (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16720233 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16720233 , 110 points, 8 months ago, 59 comments)
- sand500 8y agoWould love to see this picture with the phones and cameras removed: https://artsmetaphor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Mona-Lisa-x-e1458324247382.jpg https://artsmetaphor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Mona-Lis...
- ofrzeta 8y agoThis is depressing. What's the point of taking another smartphone picture of the Mona Lisa. So they can go home and show or post on some "social" website another smartphone pic of the Mona Lisa? I guess I just don't get it.
- 21 8y agoThat's exactly the point. It's called humble-brag.
- dymk 8y agoNow that's a depressing assumption, that people who want to share their neat experience is just humble-bragging.
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- sand500 8y agoAnother one of the same vein I've seen circulated: https://petapixel.com/2013/03/14/a-starry-sea-of-cameras-at-the-unveiling-of-pope-francis/ https://petapixel.com/2013/03/14/a-starry-sea-of-cameras-at-...
- swsieber 8y agoI think comparing the watch removal to the phone removal would really drive the point home - I don't think you see a lot of couples checking their watches at the same time. I think I get the point your making - a phone is a tool, and useful, like watches and hammers. But watches, hammers, and even books aren't designed to make you addicted to them. Lots of things on phones are. And lots of things on phones aren't... but the most addictive aspects are the most prevalent.
- stormbrew 8y ago> and even books If you've never gotten into a dopamine cycle with a good book (we usually just call this "a page turner" or "couldn't put it down") then I think that's kinda sad itself. Books are definitely designed to make you addicted to them in a similar way that apps and games often are.
- wink 8y agoI don't know, I just can't see this as a meaningful representation. Maybe I'm biased because I don't check my phone all the time - but you could get a snapshot of me in most of these situations. It would just not be an accurate depiction of how I live my life. It's like "hey I have a picture of you washing your hands, how many minutes per day do you spend in front of a sink?". Sure, everyone who goes to concerts knows those people who film every minute. But if you time it right you'll also see me taking a quick picture, that's a few seconds once or twice on a 3h concert.