Comments on: Nature Has No Human Face http://anadder.com/nature-has-no-human-face Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:28:52 +1000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: michael http://anadder.com/nature-has-no-human-face/comment-page-1#comment-5865 michael Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:46:13 +0000 http://anadder.com/?p=382#comment-5865 Hmmm, that's next week's topic. Although there's another good reason for the photo to have been blurred -- it's bug porn! And they definitely didn't consent to being filmed whilst having sex. Also I prefer the darkened room approach to nature documentaries, eg. a Great White shark sitting in the chair of a dark office -- its voice digitally altered so nobody could exact their terrible vengeance. Hmmm, that’s next week’s topic.

Although there’s another good reason for the photo to have been blurred — it’s bug porn! And they definitely didn’t consent to being filmed whilst having sex.

Also I prefer the darkened room approach to nature documentaries, eg. a Great White shark sitting in the chair of a dark office — its voice digitally altered so nobody could exact their terrible vengeance.

]]> By: Simon http://anadder.com/nature-has-no-human-face/comment-page-1#comment-5854 Simon Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:43:59 +0000 http://anadder.com/?p=382#comment-5854 It took me up to about halfway through this post before I realised that it wasn't what I thought it would be. I expected - from the title, the trancribed conversation, and most especially the photo - that it would be a treatise on the strangeness of the media's requirement to 'blur' sensitive people's faces (or interview them in darkened rooms) in the interests of privacy / confidentiality, and the arrogant manner in which we don't extend this courtesy to animals we photograph / film. I thought your photo had deliberately blurred out the faces of the bugs as an illustration of what you think all nature documentaries should do (as a mark of respect for the privacy of animals - in the absence of clear communication from any them that they consent to be photographed or filmed unblurred). It took me up to about halfway through this post before I realised that it wasn’t what I thought it would be. I expected – from the title, the trancribed conversation, and most especially the photo – that it would be a treatise on the strangeness of the media’s requirement to ‘blur’ sensitive people’s faces (or interview them in darkened rooms) in the interests of privacy / confidentiality, and the arrogant manner in which we don’t extend this courtesy to animals we photograph / film.

I thought your photo had deliberately blurred out the faces of the bugs as an illustration of what you think all nature documentaries should do (as a mark of respect for the privacy of animals – in the absence of clear communication from any them that they consent to be photographed or filmed unblurred).

]]> By: michael http://anadder.com/nature-has-no-human-face/comment-page-1#comment-5451 michael Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:01:23 +0000 http://anadder.com/?p=382#comment-5451 George -- I was basing this on a book I read but I couldn't find the reference at the time. I have it now -- it's Stephen Budiansky's Covenant of the Wild, p. 147-150 about his experiences in farming and a few other examples. George — I was basing this on a book I read but I couldn’t find the reference at the time. I have it now — it’s Stephen Budiansky’s Covenant of the Wild, p. 147-150 about his experiences in farming and a few other examples.

]]> By: michael http://anadder.com/nature-has-no-human-face/comment-page-1#comment-5411 michael Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:00:52 +0000 http://anadder.com/?p=382#comment-5411 i'm not sure how. do you mean because i said "would rather"? i’m not sure how. do you mean because i said “would rather”?

]]> By: George (of the Jungle) http://anadder.com/nature-has-no-human-face/comment-page-1#comment-5380 George (of the Jungle) Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:32:52 +0000 http://anadder.com/?p=382#comment-5380 "many species would rather be fed and sheltered in a metal cage than hunt their own food" this is a more telling piece of anthropomorphism than that you are trying to refute “many species would rather be fed and sheltered in a metal cage than hunt their own food”

this is a more telling piece of anthropomorphism than that you are trying to refute

]]> By: Alan http://anadder.com/nature-has-no-human-face/comment-page-1#comment-5291 Alan Mon, 02 Mar 2009 07:16:25 +0000 http://anadder.com/?p=382#comment-5291 Man, you have to teach me how to speak with hyperlinks like that. Man, you have to teach me how to speak with hyperlinks like that.

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