https://www.quakerranter.org/note_to_self_put_the_camera_do/ A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Mon, 20 Feb 2012 03:29:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.quakerranter.org/note_to_self_put_the_camera_do/#comment-1342 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:59:56 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/?p=374#comment-1342 On the other hand, sometimes recording an experience for others takes priority over experiencing it yourself. Sort of a “designated driver” role. If nobody had ever sat through Elias Hick’s sermons taking them down in shorthand, we wouldn’t know much today about what he said, for instance. Or WIlliam Penn’s London trial for disturbing the peace.
There’s some discussion in my Yearly Meeting now about whether a camera should be banned from YM business sessions, along with sound-recording devices. No mention of distraction, there. Currently all the resistance has to do with worry that images and messages can’t be interpreted correctly by people who weren’t physically present.

]]> https://www.quakerranter.org/note_to_self_put_the_camera_do/#comment-1341 Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:02:18 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/?p=374#comment-1341 I’ve often wondered about people who are more intent on recording an experience than in participating in it. Some of them are members of my family. They don’t actually know what they’ve seen until they get home and can look at the video.

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