dear heidi, part 5

tangents:

• one of the earliest motion picture cameras was a gun
• “the photographer loads his camera, aims it, fires…and makes a snapshot.” (pdf)
• today, we have the pistolcam
• “Still, there is something predatory in the act of taking a picture. To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as the camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a sublimated murder – a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.” – suze
• still, let us pray for soft murder, that all plots don’t lead to death
• old, but i never saw it: jason wahler plays russian roulette
• there goes my gun