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Toward a Phenomenology of the Phone

by nickwritesit on 11/1/24, 5:53 PM with 1 comments

• by PaulHoule on 11/1/24, 6:33 PM

  Not sure it’s a problem. When I was getting trained to make video in the 1990 there was a counter narrative that the landscape orientation was anti-human, made people look fat, etc.

  I wanted to make a video that exhorted people to “turn their TV on the side” but it was not practical for a huge CRT. Little did I know how mainstream portrait video would become years later.