HP Slimming Cameras

The new range of Hewlett-Packard cameras  will you make you look thinner if that's what you want. (via Metafilter)

There are cameras now that'll 'ghost' you so you can pose with the person who is taking your photo.

Cameras that'll detect when people are smiling, and then take the photo.

The Klan is working on a camera that'll make you less swarthy. 

Pass for white.

We live in the Post-Photographic Age.  If CONSUMER cameras can make adjustment's in real time then CONSUMERS will learn not to trust the image, still or moving.

Every photo becomes a painting. 

The intuited wisdom of poets becomes the common knowledge.

That we live in fiction.

I'm not here.

I don't exist.

Neither do you.

Comments

[Phil]

What? No....Here I am! Over here!

[Ryan]

Hey! ME TOO!!! We're over here!
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[Ryan]

Wow! that mess was supposed to be funny, sorry for post whoring but it was supposed to be a big SOS like they do on the beaches...OOPS!

[Rick Stone]

I don't know who you are, but my girlfriend thinks you're hot.

[Jenny]

Yeah, but in the first photo or the second?

[Devin Salinger]

Hey Jett. That was a very uplifting post. "I do not exist." I am not being an ass, i promise. Good use of public forum. Your words inspire me. Thank you.

[Jama]

Am I seeing things or are there subtle changes to the backround? Does reducing the amount of oranges on your countertop make you look slimmer? That's some diet, there. If all you plan on eating is oranges then yes, soon you will not exist.

[Jenny]

Yeah, also the cord on the left disappears in the 2nd pic,

[Thom Brown, III]

I've just finished working on a camera that changes your sex, race, age, height, and apparent intellect . . . Kodak bought the patent last week . . . It'll be a sensation . . .

[Thom Brown, III]

I've just finished working on a camera that changes your sex, race, age, height, and apparent intellect . . . Kodak bought the patent last week . . . It'll be a sensation . . .

[Thom Brown, III]

I've just finished working on a camera that changes your sex, race, age, height, and apparent intellect . . . Kodak bought the patent last week . . . It'll be a sensation . . .

[wcbhoy]

I just finished working on a web page that makes you post comments in triplicate . . . Thom Brown III bought the patent last week . . .

[Jama]

Sorry to post again but I've been thinking about this. First of all, I find it ironic that you make a statement about not existing while posting a photo of yourself. Second, what are you talking about here ie Post-Photographic age? I think it's true that as technology advances the ability to distort an image will become easier. But, is it really anything new? It seems to me that you are talking about pictoralist methodology, and photos were in fact more like paintings. That was in the early 20th century. Photographers have always had the ability to manipulate the image they create. It's just that now you don't need to spend hours in the dark room you just have to press a button or two.
The intuited wisdom of the poets is not common knowledge, Jett. Anyone can pick up a camera, not everyone can create a work of art. And what one person sees is not always what another sees, so even if your goal is "pure photography" (Pure photography is defined as possessing no qualities of technique, composition or idea, derivative of any other art form)you still have to contend with a person's individual filters that being their own world view and how they interpret what you are presenting to them. I'll stop here, this post is too long. But, you've got some good thoughts.

[Devin Salinger]

Ok, Jama. Nice words. Now take a picture of your arts degree...ass.

[Dave]

I used to spend hours in a dark room working on images, changing the tone, overlapping images, all sorts of things, it required an effort, and was definitely more of an art form.

I'll tend to agree with Jett in ways though, and add something.

The modern age of photoshopping, airbrushing images is being taken way too far, images (invariably women) are touched up to a point past perfection, where said image is impossible to reach in reality.

[Jama]

Wowza Devin. Was that totally necessary? My post was in no way trying to be high falootin. It's just something that I had been thinking about. The post was thought-provoking. My apologies, Jett, if you thought it was critcal. It seems to be my style. Damn. I'll show myself to the door...

[Devin Salinger]

Sorry Jama...I was in having a 'bad patch' when i wrote that. Please forgive me.

[jama]

We are all entitled to bad days. No big deal.

[Jett Loe]

Man Devin I was gonna have to say something - glad you apologised...we're all about the love here at LTA...

[Aorund Par]

Yeah, Technology is insane. Hell, even my Lapel Pin plays MP3s... Sorry, off-topic. Photography and what is and isn't considered art is a complicated concept...