re Watching the World Cup. Have you noticed that when a crown member sees his/ her image on the giant screen inside the stadium they don't wave at the camera (or its implied position) but directly at the screen - as if it's a giant mirror.
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I can see the temptation to give this a Debord and/or Baudrillard twist, but the truth of the matter may be quite banal: as a non-film-maker, you may not know where the camera is. It involves a piece of quite canny triangulation to interpret an image of yourself and then deduce from there where the camera that is shooting you is situated.
yea, that's what I thought tbh. canny triangulation and watching football aren't always entirely compatible, in my experience anyways.
I once saw a famous composer draw a diagram on his laptop while it was projecting to a screen overhead, as part of a seminar he gave. When he wanted to change the orientation of the projected image (from portrait to landscape), he tried physically moving the laptop around, rather than manipulating the electronic image on the laptop.
Perhaps most of us have trouble forming accurate mental models of projected images, even when not of ourselves.
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