Comments on: Goldsmiths: The … uh, Eighth Week? http://justinpickard.net/2009/11/goldsmiths-the-uh-eighth-week/ « Nostalgia for the Future » Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:39:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Lee Maguire http://justinpickard.net/2009/11/goldsmiths-the-uh-eighth-week/comment-page-1/#comment-2156 Lee Maguire Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:24:54 +0000 http://justinpickard.net/?p=2048#comment-2156 <i>When photos can be faked, the best measure of veracity is through plurality – if an Event (with-a-capital-E) occurs, there will be multiple photos, from the camera phones of participants and observers (participant observation?).</i> Best early technological example of this is CNN's <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/44.president/inauguration/themoment/" rel="nofollow">The Moment</a> stitching together observer POVs into a single coniguous, explorable image. In the future everything will be famous for Photosynth. When photos can be faked, the best measure of veracity is through plurality – if an Event (with-a-capital-E) occurs, there will be multiple photos, from the camera phones of participants and observers (participant observation?).

Best early technological example of this is CNN’s The Moment stitching together observer POVs into a single coniguous, explorable image.

In the future everything will be famous for Photosynth.

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