{"id":13571,"date":"2022-07-27T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/?p=13571"},"modified":"2025-04-07T15:58:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T15:58:14","slug":"mediastudies-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2022\/07\/27\/mediastudies-1\/","title":{"rendered":"mediastudies 1 \u2013 polaroids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(abandoned substack post) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>feel like the title of this post should be a quote about polaroid<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve always wanted to research and write a sprawling post about cameras, images, and I\u2019ve always thought I would spend years and years on it. Why? well\u2026 I\u2019ve always been interested in perception, how we perceive, how I am perceived. Could do a whole separate post about that, maybe try to weave some of that into here. Definitely doing a whole separate post about ads for sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I want to read a truly magnificent essay about how the proliferation of cameras in everybody\u2019s hands + digital means to share them, has reshaped our self-image, our social landscape, and even our material reality<br><br>Has anyone written this? Or do I have to do it? \ud83d\ude02<\/p>&mdash; Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1240158475218489349?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>tinseltown, picture palaces, cinemas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>john bergers ways of seeing<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s a 1972 documentary (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0pDE4VX_9Kk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">available on youtube!<\/a>)\u2013\u00a0 and a book<br>Camera changed what we see. Even changes paintings from before cameras<br>Reproducibility. Context<br>\u201cEverything around the image is a part of its meaning\u201d &#8211; confirms and consolidates<br>Images travel, meanings travel. Transmittable. Market value &#8211; a Leonardo sketch becomes like a relic in a shrine.<br>False mystery and false religiosity &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nudes of European painting<br>To be naked vs to be nude- to be seen by others\u00a0<br>Nakedness Is a sight for those who are dressed<br>Nakedness is created in The Eye of the beholder<br>Shame in relation to the spectator<br>Beauty contest<br>Photographs as advertisement for myself\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">polaroid camera:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">one of the ways you can think of the iPhone is as a fusion of the Sony Walkman (another product Steve Jobs admired) and the Polaroid camera. You can see the similarity in the ads, the focus on the simplicity and intuitiveness of the interface <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RigwqKbVDD\">pic.twitter.com\/RigwqKbVDD<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1189479813783801856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The media environment I was born into&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>my relationship with cameras \u2013 I remember my family developing rolls of film, having photo albums, baby pictures&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I remember the first few phones \u2013 we called them handphones in Singapore, I suppose you might call them cell phones \u2013 and the grainy pictures you could take with them&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>early days of facebook where people would upload dozens of chaotic photos of parties and so on<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GTA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When I saw this GTA V poster in real life, it blew my mind. This was in 2013 \u2013 selfies, Instagram, etc were just beginning to take off, and they hadn&#39;t quite become as &quot;normal&quot; as they are now. I think I wrote a lengthy note about this. sth abt next-level self-awareness\/gaze <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DUO6WGTr86\">pic.twitter.com\/DUO6WGTr86<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/960933227648073728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone with a smartphone can vlog<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\/\/ abandoned <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is decent enough to be turned into a substack post!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(abandoned substack post) feel like the title of this post should be a quote about polaroid I\u2019ve always wanted to research and write a sprawling post about cameras, images, and I\u2019ve always thought I would spend years and years on it. 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