Enough Science, How About Some Art?
Thursday, October 4th, 2012 11:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jesse_the_kFirst, the moving version
Sherlock (BBC) fandom, gen (no pairing) fanvid
Oh No!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97cqNZv3KTY&feature=plcp
An exceptionally appropriate song from Marina & The Diamonds, a zippy, beautifully edited gift from![[youtube.com profile]](https://youtube.com/favicon.ico)
skeletree
Now, the macro photo/caption version
A meditation on ebooks, print books, phones, and how we compulsively define our relationships with them is told completely through pictures on this Tumblr:
http://derpghost.tumblr.com/post/32216144476/book-inception
1. Photo: Young white woman holds book at chin level cover out. Her chin and mouth have a slight blue glow.
Caption: Tricking your parents into thinking you’re reading
Photo: Woman rotates book to one page spread, and a phone with bright screen is tucked in to the fold.
Caption: When you’re really just on the phone
2. Photo: young white woman holds a book at chin level, cover out, upside down
Caption: Actually reading
Photo: Same woman rotates book to show two pages held open with her thumb
Caption: Because reading is fucking fun.
3. Photo: young white man holding phone at chin level, eyes wide and wild.
Caption: Tricking your parents into thinking you’re on the phone. Photo: Same man with glasses, turning phone around to show even lines of text, black on white.
Caption: When you’re really just reading.
4. Photo: Side view of person (unknown gender) in a green-and-white-striped-hoodie, a dark brown hand holding a phone.
Caption: Tricking your parents into thinking you’re on the phone.
Photo: Front view of hoodied person, still holding phone, but the volume of the hood contains a large book, not a human face.
Caption: When you’re really just a book.
5. Photo: Gray hoodie, facing front, with the cover of a large edition of The Complete Sherlock Holmes filling the face portion.
Caption: Tricking your parents into thinking that you’re a book.
Photo: Closer in on book, spread open, to see a phone tucked in to the spread pages.
Caption: but really you’re just a phone.
6. Photo: Inflated dark hoodie with phone peeking out of the chin area.
Caption: Tricking your book into thinking you are a phone
Photo: Dark background with phone displaying photography of white male/female couple hugging.
Caption: but really you are your parents.
Sherlock (BBC) fandom, gen (no pairing) fanvid
Oh No!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97cqNZv3KTY&feature=plcp
An exceptionally appropriate song from Marina & The Diamonds, a zippy, beautifully edited gift from
Now, the macro photo/caption version
A meditation on ebooks, print books, phones, and how we compulsively define our relationships with them is told completely through pictures on this Tumblr:
http://derpghost.tumblr.com/post/32216144476/book-inception
1. Photo: Young white woman holds book at chin level cover out. Her chin and mouth have a slight blue glow.
Caption: Tricking your parents into thinking you’re reading
Photo: Woman rotates book to one page spread, and a phone with bright screen is tucked in to the fold.
Caption: When you’re really just on the phone
2. Photo: young white woman holds a book at chin level, cover out, upside down
Caption: Actually reading
Photo: Same woman rotates book to show two pages held open with her thumb
Caption: Because reading is fucking fun.
3. Photo: young white man holding phone at chin level, eyes wide and wild.
Caption: Tricking your parents into thinking you’re on the phone. Photo: Same man with glasses, turning phone around to show even lines of text, black on white.
Caption: When you’re really just reading.
4. Photo: Side view of person (unknown gender) in a green-and-white-striped-hoodie, a dark brown hand holding a phone.
Caption: Tricking your parents into thinking you’re on the phone.
Photo: Front view of hoodied person, still holding phone, but the volume of the hood contains a large book, not a human face.
Caption: When you’re really just a book.
5. Photo: Gray hoodie, facing front, with the cover of a large edition of The Complete Sherlock Holmes filling the face portion.
Caption: Tricking your parents into thinking that you’re a book.
Photo: Closer in on book, spread open, to see a phone tucked in to the spread pages.
Caption: but really you’re just a phone.
6. Photo: Inflated dark hoodie with phone peeking out of the chin area.
Caption: Tricking your book into thinking you are a phone
Photo: Dark background with phone displaying photography of white male/female couple hugging.
Caption: but really you are your parents.