There's a line in the newspaper today that makes my head feel oddly twisted.
I cannot get my mind around the idea of blatantly trying not to be seen.
ART You should stop taking pictures. Here's the first part of the argument:
Well. I take the pictures off my phone every day, toss the duds, and file the keepers with names that reflect what they show. So I don't have a wad of files with names like IMG_938439345434.jpg. Yes, you have to take yourself out of the moment to take a picture, but it's not as if reality is such a hard thing to reenter. Hold on, don't talk to me! I'm trying to reacclimatize myself to the actual world! We continue:
That's right: stop taking pictures, and start drawing. Because of Ruskin. It's complicated, so perhaps you should read the piece. But this is advice I have no intention of taking, because when I'm walking through another city with wife and child, they tend to get impatient when I fall behind to shoot an architectural detail; shouting "Hold up, I need to sharpen my pencil" would not go over well.
MEANWHILE IN ENGLAND The BBC is usually above stories like this, aren't they?
Seems more like a Daily Mail story. Hold on, what's this in the "Related Stories" sidebar?
It's an epidemic.
