From Gizmodo I learned about five videos taken by cinemographer Ed Lachman with a Motorola V710 camera phone to document how people use their phone.
The quality of the videos and the way they are filmed are pretty interesting. As for the actual content, well, that's another matter. If you want to see what a cinematographer can do with a camera phone, the videos might be worth watching.
But if you think you're going to see videos with interesting stories or interesting people, think again. Gizmodo summarizes the videos and I provide the "translation" (since I watched them, too) for these brief vignettes of the, uh, banality of human existence.
Perhaps I'm being too hard on the content. Motorola says the videos reveal "the unexpected, poignant and funny ways cell phones affect all of our lives." You decide.
Summary of the videos
• "Hot asian girls can be shallow." [Translation: Girl (woman) uses phone to communicate with boyfriend.]
• "Bears hate your ringtone, as well." [Translation: Phone ringtone chases away bear.]
• "Dogs are awful at voicemail." [Translation: Rotweiller bites cellular phone and leave barking "voice mail."]
• "Some people like cake." [Translation: Southern woman leaves cellular phone in taxi and finds a new boyfriend when she calls the phone and he answers.]
• "Socially unstable people usually marry within one week of writing a sad song." [Woman receives misdirected messages from another woman trying to woo back her boyfriend, counsels woman and woman and boyfriend get back together.]
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