Today is a short entry. I've been thinking about 21st century space quite a bit of late - especially now that iphone technology is invading the psyche. You'll soon be able to be mobile while interacting with a digital projection of someone in China (for example) in real (ie. wired) time. It is the first real user application for a mobile web - a more personal extension of one's digital experience. What will that sort of spatial folding do to our visual senses? I have a few theories as you've already read (or not...). Anyway, I wanted to show you what a camera did to space at the very beginning of lens proliferation in the 19th century. Artists were intrigued by the lens and its ready realism, but they were also trying to come to terms with the flatness that this monovision creates of distances and peripheries. This is one of my favorites. "Bonjour Monsieur Courbet" flattens out that landscape, the dog, and a teeny weeny carriage in the "distance." Not to mention what it does to his beard, the cast shadows, and the fact that if Courbet stood next to those guys he'd be a foot taller than them - which is really part of the point for the ego maniacally obsessed Monsieur Courbet. This was a new and radical type of painting in its day, and one determined to find a new way of seeing.