Smart phones, sometimes, just make people stupid.
A gateway to parallel realities, they can subtract us from the places we are, distance us from the people we are close to and even from whom we are.
But the device became an incredible tool to capture what is around. With more and more technological capacity and advanced software, it now replaces video/photography cameras and sound recorders. Some see it as the ultimate utensil to produce artistic photos, collages, movies, songs or podcasts.
If generally the architect used hand sketches or photo cameras to get a grip to sights and places, these ‘’pocket cameras’’, enable a quick shot that grasp the points of interest in different ways.
Induced by the immediacy of the snapshot and distant from the pressures of setting a drawing or prepare the best shot, the result can be very suggestive.
Being able to be ‘’quick on the trigger’’ encourages spontaneity and the artistic-reporter within any architect comes out naturally, freely, released of guilt.
No doubt, this immediate process lacks the concentration and commitment of the hand sketch or the photo shooting for the assimilation of what is around us. But the habitually portrayed subjects are also different.
Materials, textures, reflections, building details, atmospheres…all can be conveyed through these fast pics and they will speak for themselves.
Flashes of existing things. Not more, not less.
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