VLVL2 (13) 3: Round wire rims with ND-I filters for lenses

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy

> In a message dated 2/11/04 11:43:05 AM, vmaeder at cycn-phx.com writes:
> 
> << How else is this small yet astonishing detail symbolic of Ms.
> Gates'
> character?  What of the fact that ND filters do not affect colors yet
> reduce
> brightness?  What of the fact that the normal limitations of the lens
> (here
> Ms. Gates' vision) in achieving certain depths of field are overcome
> by the
> very same filters she is wearing?  

In a camera (and perhaps in the human eye as well, I suppose) a smaller
lens aperture gives you greater depth of field. ND filters reduce the
depth of field in an image by decreasing the amount of light reaching
the film and forcing the use of a larger lens aperture. So by analogy
the wearing of ND filters as eyeglass lenses would reduce the depth of
field rather than increase it. One might almost think of the ND lenses
as blinders of a sort.

Is this another of P's cybernetic conceits? Perhaps a Christopher
Isherwood/Sally Bowles reference? (see "I am a Camera") I also remember
an early Russian silent film of the revolutionary agit-prop sort,
called "I am a Camera" (in Russian of course) but can't find it on the
www so maybe I'm mistaken.

Perhaps ND filter lenses would let the pupils dilate, ever so slightly,
simulating (not stimulating) sexual attraction and making the wearer
just slightly more interesting to look at? I think I'll get me a pair,
Lord knows I need the help...

Mark
lurking under the floorboards with my damsons and my prunes


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