Phonar14 Video

- Phonar: photography narrative
- It's about habits and establishing them from the start
- Rapid fire production; thinking through doing
- Thinking from habits you already have
- Need passion & camera to be a photographer
- You become a slave to habits
- Systems have become someone's solution to a problem; you don't realize it until you think out of the system
- Systems don't want us to think for ourselves
- A photo is fixed in time, it ages
- There is a difference between an image and a photograph
- A photograph is bound by the experience rather than the evidence
- Everyone who has access to taking photos is a photographer
- Most photographers, if everyone is a photographer, keep their photos on social media (Facebook)
- We crop photos into rectangles because they're easier to ship around, but the actual photo is much bigger
- If you want to change the world you have to start describing it differently
- After we get out of the shackles of media, stories will change
- Nonlinear decentralized media environment: online & offline
- Transmedia: story is told from multiple platforms (ex-book, movie, video game, etc)
- When you're a trusted source you can tell your story so you know what you're talking about and people believe you and people can tell you their stories
- Connections lead to platforms and change you into something greater than a supplier; has the potential to be greater than just photography
- Something fixed in time has value
- Some images are to be believed but then questioned culturally
- When you not only read images but when you create images you should question them
- Photography has the ability to change the world
- When we think about ourselves beyond a supplier and as trusted collaborators it strengthens us and allows us to explore
Connections to Canterbury Tales
- It's a story that incorporates many stories and we need to look at the bigger picture
- Every story has a message if you look at it from different perspectives
- There's more depth to a story than just what happened; the experience is even greater
- The journey is a collaboration just like this world needs to be
- Keep in mind all different sides/perspectives