Rio McThorne - An Anachronistic Anagram » Gear http://riomcthorne.com A Photo Blog for Erich Valo Photography Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:49:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 The Paparazzi Arms Race Escalates http://riomcthorne.com/2009/09/the-paparazzi-arms-race-escalates/ http://riomcthorne.com/2009/09/the-paparazzi-arms-race-escalates/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:07:20 +0000 Erich http://riomcthorne.com/?p=1256 LairWhile American designer Adam Harvey theorized ways an anti-photography A-bomb could be designed, leave it to the Russkies to actually build it. Roman Abramovich; Russian investment banker, Chelsea Football Club owner and potential super-villain, has equipped his secret aquatic lair yacht with a laser aided anti-photo defense shield. Evidently his sci-fi privacy bubble is enabled by infrared lasers which lock onto the energy signature of the CCD in a digital camera and fire an interrupting bolt of light to negate the camera’s ability to record images. I for one want to see it work. I want to try to take a digital photo of his floating hidout yacht and see a blank image on my LCD in review and then I want to see the smug look on his face disappear when I pull out my Hasselblad 501cm which is completely invisible to his 21st century photo defense shield. Nice try Abramovich. If you need any convincing that Abramovich is anything but a James Bond Super Villain here’s a few more amenities that his yacht, The Eclipse, has included on it: two helipads, an aquarium (probably filled with sharks) and a two person escape submarine.

EscapeSub

]]> http://riomcthorne.com/2009/09/the-paparazzi-arms-race-escalates/feed/ 0 The Paparazzi Arms Race Has Begun http://riomcthorne.com/2009/07/the-paparazzi-arms-race-has-begun/ http://riomcthorne.com/2009/07/the-paparazzi-arms-race-has-begun/#comments Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:12:30 +0000 Erich http://riomcthorne.com/?p=998 Anti-Paparazzi

Adam Harvey is a designer and technologist working at the intersection of emerging media arts, photography and computer programing, or at least that’s how he describes himself, and he has just ignited the paparazzi arms race. His supposed product, the Anti-Paparazzi Clutch Bag, is a purse armed with a strobe and a white light slave. When it senses a paparazzi’s flash the purse fires it’s own flash back to blind the lens, like some Dr. Strangelove Doomsday Machine.

If celebrities adopt this defense to keep the public from seeing they’re just like us (They get the mail! They go grocery shopping!) the paparazzi’s only response will be to use stronger, brighter strobes to overpower the defense flash. Next the celebrities will have to adopt the Anti-Paparazzi Backpack Accessory to carry the lead/acid 12v batteries to power their stronger more powerful defense strobes. There’s no détente in sight, the only inevitable end to this is the paparazzi apocalypse. Is that the legacy you want to leave behind for the next generation, Adam Harvey? Is it?!

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120 transparencies in 3-D.

Who is going to lend me theirs?

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We have the science to prove it.

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