Response to Kino Eye

I feel that many of the things that Vertov spoke on about the advantages of recording video still apply today. Over time we have developed the technology to make the advantages he spoke of like being able to capture impressions in a manner completely different from the human eye rings more true today than when he wrote it. For example on a social media "story" site like SnapChat everyone can pull out their phone and record the same event from entirely different perspectives. What may look like a grand time from one persons point of view can look like an epic fail from anothers. Quotes like "we cannot improve the making of our eyes, but we can endlessly perfect the camera" are evident every year with manufactures competing to put the most high resolution cameras in their devices. I had a "Go Pro" camera in mind when he talked about capturing a boxing match from the viewpoint of the competitors. I enjoyed reading this excerpt of Kino Eye, it has a lot of similarities with the present.

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