Confused Cell Lady Observation

This marks my first sharing post of my "long stills" or "mini videos." Under the video I would like to talk about this for a second. I'm excited about sharing these observational moments in time.


"Confused Cell Lady Observation" by Deena Oh

Video: Taken at the Dallas Texas airport
Sound: Taken at Tryst, a coffeeshopslashbar, in Washington DC






I think that flickr introducing less-than-90-second video is brilliant. Everyone's still camera has video on it now.

These long pictures blend the brevity ("brevity is the soul of wit") with the motion of video. Motion pictures. The photographer's favorite concept should state the singularity of the moment. Video loses that, but gains precious time. The breaking time down into these nuggets is perfect for us when we are being attention deficit multi-tasking internet readers. Youtube of course approaches this, you could argue it created this, and sometimes it accomplishes this-- but you have to go through so much trash and looooooong unedited crap that remains interesting only if it is you or your buddy. A 90 second cut off causes you to choose more carefully what time you want to keep-- what moment to show. This being said, of course there are very uninteresting flickr mini vids, but at least it can never waste too much of your time.


But careful everyone: those 90 seconds, like that $3 coffee, adds up.


Hans quoted someone saying "humor is a waste of time." Then he explained that it sounds much better if taken out of context, but in context he's simply referring to wasting your time scavenging for internet humor.


What about wasting your time scavenging for beauty?


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