A blinding flash..followed by a cacophonous symphony..Then a ~CLICK CLICK~ and another blinding flash..The process repeats!NO!! You are not front seat spectators at "the war on terror debacle"-now showing at Iraq (my opinion on that is another story). Welcome to a Generation 2.0 gathering!!
People who know me would expect me to be the last person to touch upon this otherwise frivolous subject.Once again, welcome to the photo-shoot culture..
When Alhazan (incidentally an iraqi) first conceptualized a camera..and Alexander Graham Bell(lets discredit the controversy over the invention of the telephone for now!) materialized the telephone. Neither predicted that their offsprings would one day be joined in a not-so-holy matrimony..THE CAMERA PHONE!!
Before i proceed let me clarify that..Yes!I do carry a camera phone!(Atleast thats what they told me it was!. I doubt the authenticity of both these claims). And i have nothing personal against it! I have never been candidly captured embarrassingly in anything but a good old nap on the books!!(Engineers you know what i mean!).
My only 'bone' with the device is the permanently attached phalange(for all those who did that afore mentioned embarrassing activity in biology classes..the finger bone) that tenses up and depresses under the following situations. The person is alone!The person is standing, sitting, looking up,down, to the left and right!...Person is not alone!!..All 'not alone persons are alive','not alive','inebriated','not inebriated' etc etc etc etc and etc...i cant possibly cover all cases but you get the point!..If not..Please leave this page!!
Ofcourse i could be completely in thinking that the purpose of a camera is to capture the moments!! But..for them to be captured they have to be created first! Which brings me back to generation 2.0. of which i am an extremely proud member!
Meet us at a get together(Im covering only our 'photo-maniac' qualities in this post). The people you see frantically emerging from a converging swarm of bellowing screamers are ones who have the menial task of clicking!..and the rest of us..well..the swarm!..
What bothers me is that in our desire to create one material still frame that will be embossed in our minds, we lose(not loose as many people seem to insist) invaluable time which may have actually created that magic!!
So please..less smiles for the cameras!! More for the times!!!
*CURTAIN CALL*-*APPLAUSE*
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1 comment:
so true!
nice blog!
i jus realized what all i've missed trying to pose 4 the cameras!!
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