LMAO...
Norm
Dr E D F Williams wrote:
Chaos,
I can do better than this with one of those Auto-Haiku programs that were in
vogue in the MS DOS days and may still be around for all I know. But you're
plonked - I'm sorry.
Don
Dr E D F Williams
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Updated: March 30, 2002
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chaso DeChaso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: law and image
I've attemped to establish film as a medium having a
faithful connection to reality, the negative being not
unlike for example a person's shadow, which has a
sensical connection to the real, in contrast to
digital imaging, wherein there is a separation from
reality which occurs when the vestiges of the real are
transformed into anonymous data. The argument keeps
cropping up that since a photo can be altered it is
fiction anyway and nothing more to do with the real
than digital is. I am here arguing that if you use
the methodology that something can be altered and
therefore is nothing more than fiction than to be
consistent one must apply this method to seeing
itself: since optical illusions are possible and
distortions are always present in seeing, then seeing
must be regarded as a fiction (which is in a sense
technically true, but indeed only technically so,
since no one lives life disbelieving whatever he sees
as a matter of course.) Rules of evidence, if they
are to equate film and digital by this methodology
must therefore also equate seeing as pure fiction.
Since no one would argue this is so (no one would
disregard all sightings of a crime as possible
hallucination), I have undermined the methodology of
simply saying that film is as fictional as digital
because it can be altered.
Chaso
--- Dr E D F Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Chaos,
What on earth are you talking about?
Don
Dr E D F Williams
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Author's Web Site and Photo Gallery
Updated: March 30, 2002
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chaso DeChaso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 5:29 PM
Subject: Re: law and image
Right, they are all fiction. It's as simple as
that.
Also there are optical illusions, distortions,
uncertainties etc. in seeing so seeing is fiction
so I
wonder why having seen something occur is
evidence?
Of course they're all fiction, but it is my
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