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comment by insomniasexx
insomniasexx  ·  4545 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Man Caught on Video Defacing a Picasso in Houston Museum
This seems fake....right? Like dude just happens to have camera out, dude just runs over without saying anything after to get a perfect shot of the painting. Weird.




thenewgreen  ·  4544 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Also, as khaaan points out, the camera man suffers from a very real affliction Vertical Video Syndrome
insomniasexx  ·  4543 days ago  ·  link  ·  
We are having this exact same problem at work right. We have screens that are 16:9 but our customers are uploading iphone vertical videos. On a 2.3 inch screen, the video is only like .5 inches wide now. We're totally putting this video on the site for our new product.
mike  ·  4545 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I agree. The police should be focusing on the cameraman!
khaaan  ·  4544 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I disagree the camera man is a total amateur as he shots with a camera phone portrait style unless that's deliberate.

Not to mention i would have said something to the guy not the painting

thenewgreen  ·  4545 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Yeah, I don't buy it either. Let's just say that you happen to have a camera out and happen to be hanging out in the corner of the gallery room with the camera focused all the way across the room when a vandal is defacing a Picasso. Do you:

A: Immediately run up to the painting and focus in on it and then the description

B: Go after the vandal and tape them further

C: Go get a security guard

D: None of the above

E: Get out a pen and improve upon the vandals shoddy work