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“Hey, move out of the way! Your shadows are in my photo! I just want those tracks, not shadows.”
“Actually, no, stay. I like it like that, with you in there.” |
I'm Jill Walker Rettberg, author and professor of Digital Culture at the University of Bergen in Norway. I co-direct the Center for Digital Narrative, a 10-year Norwegian Centre of Research Excellence, and I lead the ERC project Machine Vision in Everyday Life. This site started as my blog in October 2000.
vika
Is that an old person with a cane? Ooh, this game is fun.
I don’t have a digital, or in fact any functional camera. I cannot *wait* ’til E. moves (soon!) and I can snag his occasionally.
Jill
Hihi – mum wouldn’t like to be called “an old person with a cane” – no, no, she’s a hip woman in her prime with a hip, deluxe mountaineering walking stick. See, she treks the globe a few times a year, climbs Kilimanjaro, treks across Alaska, does Peru, hikes through Upper Mustang (Nepal, you geographic ignoramuses) or Khazbekistan, that sort of thing. Do that kind of stuff enough and you quickly learn that professional stick accessories are not only necessary but incredibly cool.
So upgrade your stick vocab, Vika!
Cameras are fun. Really. Especially digital ones, and especially when you have a blog to post em to.
Hurry on E.!
vika
Hee! My profound apologies to your mum. The shadows look like this might as well be high up in Tibet. A stately, slow monk making his way along a road, and a young disciple respectfully bowing in greeting.
I am new and improved, now with stick 2.0!
Jill
Mum probably wouldn’t mind the disciple bit 😉
Actually the photo’s just from round the corner. Well, up on Ulriken. Not far.
🙂