Exploitation Video
After posting this photo a week ago (Friday, January 20, 2006) I received the following message from someone I'll identify only by the initials J. Flo. :
"...you've got to take that picture of you in the vestlooking (sic) like a caveman off your blog immediately..disturbing and uncomfortable viewing.. I don'tnormally (sic) advocate censorship of any kind, but Iimplore (sic) you.."
I don't think the original photo was so troubling, especially when compared with my answer to the request. I've slightly blurred the image and added some static. Rather than soften the image, however, I think these effects make it more upsetting. To me it looks like a frame from one of those brutish, camcorder-shot exploitation videos from the internet (we've all seen them). One wants to shout, "Hey, where are the clown midgets and the dog collars?"
posted by John at 9:23 AM
1 Comments:
Received following comment: "The altered photo on your blog is a bit easier to look
at.. kind of like how Martin Scorsese tried to make
the gruesome massacre in "Taxi Driver" more palatable
by desaturating the colors of the film stock.. I think
the disturbing aspect of the original photo is the
glaring over-flashed depiction of the leather vest in
direct contact with your skin, combined with your
howling, hunched-shouldered expression.. maybe I'm
unconsciously repulsed by dead skin being worn
directly over bare skin which is evocative of cavemen
and their ilk... later, jflo"
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