I just had this liminal feeling of having written and posted something but really haven't touched this spot in a while. Still feeling the residual appeal of that revolutionary topic I wrote about.
It'll come back in that liminal space. I just hope it crosses the boundary into my conscious.
So what can I write about that will not disappoint my dream? Hm. I'll try.
Every day I time freeze moments in Instagrams, or Paths, and fumble around with my home button attempting to create the next radical shot that will in all the Hefe/Valencia/X-Pro II filters change someone's life. We do it all the time, so new-age, so subconsciously, that when I look around at couples in a restaurant, they are either precariously balancing that sleek biscuit of an iPhone above the steaming carbonara tippled with jungle mushrooms, foie gras, and truffle oil, or laughing at the latest 9gag-like comment on their FaceBook picture. And then they share that transient 9gag joke with their partner, who in a mutual show of 2012 love, pass their phones over so they each get a good laugh. Of their friend's ingenious thought. While at dinner with each other.
Now, if I were the chef, would I be glad that my dish of trial and error over nights and days of wasted food and harsh critiques, be relegated to a mass of pixels underneath a cover of filters and app stickers that turns the colour of my cream from cream to green, and mushrooms to rabbit heads?!
Sometimes, in the midst of having dinner, I will consciously and deliberately set my phone down. "This is not how I want our communication to be like," I will think. And then look up and see everyone else engaged in the screen that lights up their eyes, literally. I slowly, and again purposefully, pick my fork up, twirl a strand of my pasta slowly, and focus on my cream that is cream and mushrooms that are mushrooms, waiting patiently for the matrix to be plugged out of everyone and reality to fizzle to life like an old satellite TV. Sometimes, I pick my phone back up, because maybe I will have nothing to say without it.
Date Instagram or FaceBook, they make you laugh more than anyone else can.
Sigh.
2 comments:
Great to hear you posting again. I wish i could just steal this post and put it on my blog cuz you write so well!
And yes, I find it strange how obsessed we are over taking pictures of our food. Much to the point I deliberately take bad shots and post it on facebook but no one really gets the joke which makes me sadder.
Hey Justin! Heartwarming to know you still check back from time to time:)
I think it's funny from a critical distance,but because it hits so close to Instagram,it hurts.
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