Oh, Photography.

   The entire time I read Chapters 7-9 (mostly Chapter 8) in McCloud's book, I kept thinking, "Well, yeah -- the same goes for photos!" Lucky for me, Doug had my back on this one. Wolf's article articulated some of my thoughts on photography, including the fact that it is fucking awesome. Seriously. I know we are all in this weird hipster phase of Instagram (I have one too -- no shame,) and that there is an entire culture of people (including myself -- apparently, I am a bandwagon-er) who have resorted to tintypes, daguerrotypes, color film and old dark room processes. I think it's fantastic. Mostly, because of the lost art of dark room photography. And, more specifically, alternative and experimental processing. If you don't know what those are, I advise you to take a look at this. Chris Anderson, a photography professor at MSU (who is currently on sabbatical, unfortunately) is the goddess of alternative processes.

   I digress. I knew that would happen as soon as I got the chance to talk about photo. Stick with me.

   Alright -- so, we know this trend is going on. Kind of like McCloud was talking about how people become so consumed with the idea of what color can do in comics, that they forget about the importance of black lines. People are all INSTAGRAM, and the hard cores are all SAVE THE PROCESS. And I'm like, "Save it all, dude."

   Point being, there is some really fucking cool stuff happening with technology right now. Like Wolf was discussing about the capabilities of cameras in photographing particles for physics (Ahem, my Science News Brief on the God Particle. So cool!) we are constantly pushing the limits of what we can capture on a monitor screen. Cameras are already smarter than we are -- our eyes instinctively tint colors for us based on lighting temperature. Cameras don't do this, unless you tell them to (this is why pictures under fluorescents look blue, etc.) and have the ability to pick up color and details that our eyes can't. 

   Technology is exploding, and with it, the amount of imagery a camera can produce is getting absolutely insane. Check out these videos below, and see where photography has been heading the last seven years or so. These are called Building Projection Mappings. They are created by a series of extremely high-definition images of the building itself, stitched together to create a life-size replica of the building, which is projected on the building itself. Over these images play a video, or series of images that, with enough projectors, and trust me, you need a lot of projectors, will enable your audience to think that the video is being played directly on the building itself, molding around its edges and corners, when in actuality, it is a video of the building being projected on the building. I know... Inception. I think it's pretty kick ass, too.