{"id":9,"date":"2007-07-12T15:15:32","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T21:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/peanutbutter\/2007\/07\/12\/hello-moto\/"},"modified":"2007-07-12T15:25:09","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T21:25:09","slug":"hello-moto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/peanutbutter\/2007\/07\/12\/hello-moto\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Moto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">What does it mean to capture something with\u00c2\u00a0a cell phone camera? Instant gratification? Mobility? Convenience? Simplicity? Why am I so fascinated by such a simple camera? (although in theory not quite so simple because I am still baffled as to how digital photography works, I mean really, it is amazing).<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Perhaps I enjoy it so much because it is an instantaneous way to capture bits and pieces of moments in time which I can then upload onto my computer and then in turn upload them to a photo sharing\/storing website like Flickr so that my memories are preserved in case my brain starts to leak (which it most likely will as time goes by).<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">But what does it mean to me to have a camera readily at my finger tips?<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Do I take photos for purposes solely benefiting myself?<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Do I want to share them with others?<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>What does it mean by putting my photos out on the web for anyone to see?<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>When I started my Flickr account I was surprised when I got comments from people I had never heard of before because it meant people I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know were actually taking the time to look at and enjoy my photos.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Interesting.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Will there one day be a search engine for images? Kind of like Google, but also like Flickr \u00e2\u20ac\u02dccause you coupld upload a photo or image for query?<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>For example, tonight I took a photo of a painting of a man who I had no idea who it was.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>If I were to upload one of my photos onto a searchable database, then perhaps it would give me results with photos that are similar to it, which would help me identify the man in the painting.<span>\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>I suppose this is kind of similar to something Dr. C. was talking about in one of our past classes, how there was a program that can search for similar shapes in an image and find the similar shape groupings in other images. <\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">*George trying to stealth nap during class &#8230; naughty, naughty*<\/font>\u00c2\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" src=\"http:\/\/i44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f1\/Sarita-sar27\/SleepyGeorge-1.jpg\" alt=\"George\" height=\"453\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">*Escher Stairwell?&#8230;Interesting how things can see things from a different aspect when you turn your perspective upside down*<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f1\/Sarita-sar27\/n93200336_30270630_5498.jpg\" alt=\"Stairs\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">*Untitled painting of a man that hangs above the zerox machine&#8230;It kind of reminds me of Ben Franklin, but the clothes don&#8217;t seem to fit the era quite right*<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f1\/Sarita-sar27\/n93200336_30270633_5881.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i44.photobucket.com\/albums\/f1\/Sarita-sar27\/n93200336_30270630_5498.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does it mean to capture something with\u00c2\u00a0a cell phone camera? Instant gratification? Mobility? Convenience? Simplicity? Why am I so fascinated by such a simple camera? (although in theory not quite so simple because I am still baffled as to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/peanutbutter\/2007\/07\/12\/hello-moto\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/peanutbutter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/peanutbutter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/peanutbutter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/peanutbutter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/peanutbutter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/peanutbutter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/peanutbutter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/peanutbutter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/peanutbutter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}