Response to Jonathan Beller, by “Pay Attention”
I thought it was interesting that there is a company that gathers information on how much time people are paying attention to a website or how to sell attention to secondary markets. It seems as if anything could be sold. It is kind of scary to believe that our lives are being tracked every second. In today’s world, it seems like it so easy to get someone’s attention but at the same time it’s so hard to make it an effective attention span. Usually people are disrupted with so much advertising pollution and sometimes we become oblivious to it, especially if we live in a big city life New York City. Also we are constantly being interrupted by notifications on our phones and portable devices. So, I see why companies would pay for these kind of “Attention Services”.
Response to A matter of Time by T.J. Demos
This reading made me think of my Film Photography course I am taking this semester. I am a New Yorker. I’ve been raised in the city since I was 6 months old. I know this city is fast paced and everything around us is fast. Time goes by very fast. When I am taking pictures for my photography class, I actually have to stop and think about what am I going to take a picture of. But it’s not only just a picture of an object that I am taking a picture of but also a moment in time. Last week, for my assignment, I had to take pictures of fives different objects using different exposure settings. I decided to take a pictures of the clock tower. During that time, the sun was coming down, and my camera kept reading different light meter setting, so I continuously had to adjust to those settings. It made me reflect that every moment is just time. Every picture or video is just a moment in time. A picture can have a different meaning now, then it had some years ago or the meaning it can have some year after it was taken.