Lee Barry Composition Diary

1/20/2001 Bush inauguration. Watched a bit on TV. Interesting: At the moment of the oath, the first camera shot had water spots on the lens. (An omen?)  1/20/2007 Idea for photo shoot: Classroom, all students with ashes on their foreheads except one with a scared look on his face. [1/20/2026: An approximation with AI]   Article in NYT about face recognition. Cognitive scientists have found that subliminally learning something too well interferes with perceptions of reality. (Learning patterns, e.g. “This pattern is a face”, is a type of exformation of reality, such that the brain doesn’t have to process the patterns every time we see it. [Essentially a General Adversarial Network]  They do this thing on MySpace where you invite people to “add your page” then they send a “thanks for adding”. That’s all people seem to be doing these days: “adding” “friends” to lists. 1/20/2009  Obama inauguration. 2 million people make a pilgrimage to the National Mall to witness histo...