Comments on: Lottery winners, the camera, and the mirror

By: douglas

douglas — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

Steve, there’s a difference between caring about how one looks and vanity, but I guess from where you stand, it’s all to one side of the spectrum…that’s called a perspective problem.

Video blogging? No thanks. How do you ‘preview’ video blogging?

By: Assistant Village Idiot

Assistant Village Idiot — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

I have previously made the argument that the Renaissance got its liftoff in Northern Italy in the late 13th C, because of the great improvement in Venetian mirrors. Not only could the wealthy and educated see themselves more clearly -- and often, but thousand of people in the glass trade got to see themelves at least infrequently.

We literally saw ourselves in a new way.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. When did you last hear of a clerk giving his life for the company? Perhaps your deficiency rests in the false assumption that you can order men to think and cooperate. This has been a failure of everything from religions to general staffs throughout history. General staffs have a long record of destroying their own nations. As to religions, I recommend a rereading of Thomas Aquinas. As to you of CHOAM, what nonsense you believe! Men must want to do things out of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness -- they cannot work and their civilization collapses.
-A letter to CHOAM, Attributed to The Preacher

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

Steve-"I generally ignore my appearance because I know in 100 years I'm going to look just terrible."
That's cute, but incredibly selfish.

One man's unselfishness is another man's vanity. - Steve

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

Just as an aside…In college we tried to improve our interviewing skills by teaming up with a classmate and going through a set of interview questions, then we would review the tape in class. When my firend and I came to the question about special skills we decided to have the interviewee say yes and then stop the videotape and have him step out of the picture then turn on the tape and announce that he could make himself invisible. We got pretty good laughs and even made a boring day interesting for some.

By: douglas

douglas — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

Oh, and Neo, that was one beautifully crafted post.

By: douglas

douglas — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

Steve-“I generally ignore my appearance because I know in 100 years I’m going to look just terrible.”
That’s cute, but incredibly selfish. When you go out in public, people have to look at you, and what do you communicate to them? ‘I don’t give a rats ass about you, I’M saving my energy for things more important to ME.’ Appeatance matters in the social discourse- well except here. It’s akin to saying ‘I don’t care to use proper grammar when I speak in public, because it doesn’t really say anything about me and it’s too much trouble.

By: jng

jng — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

Am I just an image?

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

Those civil war photoees have a right to be stiff, since presumably they need to stand still for a minute for the exposure to set.

I'd be stiff too if I had to stand in front of a camera and do the freeze.

By: camojack

camojack — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

Having worked on a dozen movies and a number of commercials, cameras are just one more thing to which I've grown accustomed.

Me, and millions of others...