Today’s dose of bullshit.

Thoughtography.

Is the exposure of film by thought alone, allegedly. Click above to understand.

“It’s just intrinsically fascinating,” said Stephen E. Braude, philosophy professor and chairman of the department at UMBC.

“My view is it’s easy to be a skeptic if you don’t bother to educate yourself about the details of the case,” he said.

He’s got that bit right. So click the quote below for a few more details, just in case you don’t believe it’s possible to expose film with your mind.

If I’m wrong, this could be the new future of photojournalism. No need to leave home! magic. We might encounter a few ethical problems however with exposing images with our minds. Tricky, it’s a bit of a grey (matter) area.

Sessions last as long as eight hours. Usually Serios becomes quite drunk, and is sometimes uncontrollable. Most of the time he is wild and erratic. He runs around the room, yells and curses and makes foolish demands to his audience to which many participants acquiesce. He may take off his clothes or sometimes just his shoes or shirt. He always appears to empty his pockets.

He violently distorts his face when attempting to obtain photographs; he becomes frenzied, snapping his fingers or feeling his pulse. He usually plays continually with one of the several gismos he uses.

Hmmm.

Discussion (1 Comment)

  1. Tom White says:

    Amazing. I was just researching this guy. Sorry, I mean charlatan. Mind you, I have a few negatives that came out all blurry and indistinct when I was trying to photograph something specific. Maybe it was my drunk mind projecting itself onto the film. Time to break open that box of expired film in the freezer and a bottle of whiskey and do some cold hard staring I think..

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