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With your consent, a camera crew films your waking hours* for 60 days, how many days into it before you might be able to fully ignore them?

*With the exception of utterly personal and obviously private moments.


The idea of ignoring them is that there is not supposed to be any interaction between you and them, you’re expected to carry on your normal routine as if they are not even there.
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Posted - March 11, 2023

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  • 23659
    Hi Honey Dew,
    I was unsure of which song you meant, so here are the song lyrics to both songs.  
    They both work as poetry to me, too. But I admit I'm incredibly biased when it comes to Anderson and Jones.  :)


    "O Superman"     Laurie Anderson

    O Superman. O judge. O Mom and Dad. Mom and Dad.
    O Superman. O judge. O Mom and Dad. Mom and Dad.
    Hi. I'm not home right now. But if you want to leave a
    message, just start talking at the sound of the tone.
    Hello? This is your Mother. Are you there? Are you
    coming home?
    Hello? Is anybody home? Well, you don't know me,
    but I know you.
    And I've got a message to give to you.
    Here come the planes.
    So you better get ready. Ready to go. You can come
    as you are, but pay as you go. Pay as you go.

    And I said: OK. Who is this really? And the voice said:
    This is the hand, the hand that takes. This is the
    hand, the hand that takes.
    This is the hand, the hand that takes.
    Here come the planes.
    They're American planes. Made in America.
    Smoking or non-smoking?
    And the voice said: Neither snow nor rain nor gloom
    of night shall stay these couriers from the swift
    completion of their appointed rounds.

    'Cause when love is gone, there's always justice.
    And when justive is gone, there's always force.
    And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi Mom!

    So hold me, Mom, in your long arms. So hold me,
    Mom, in your long arms.
    In your automatic arms. Your electronic arms.
    In your arms.
    So hold me, Mom, in your long arms.
    Your petrochemical arms. Your military arms.
    In your electronic arms.


    "New Song"     Howard Jones

    "New Song"

    I've been waiting for so long
    To come here now and sing this song
    Don't be fooled by what you see
    Don't be fooled by what you hear

    This is a song to all of my friends
    They take the challenge to their hearts
    Challenging preconceived ideas
    Saying goodbye to long standing fears

    Don't crack up
    Bend your brain
    See both sides
    Throw off your mental chains

    I don't wanna be hip and cool
    I don't wanna play by the rules
    Not under the thumb of the cynical few
    Or laden down by the doom crew

    Don't crack up
    Bend your brain
    See both sides
    Throw off your mental chains

    Don't crack up
    Bend your brain
    See both sides
    Throw off your mental chains

    I've been waiting for so long
    To come here now and sing this song
    Don't be fooled by what you see
    Don't be fooled by what you hear

    This is a song to all of my friends
    They take the challenge to their hearts
    Challenging preconceived ideas
    Saying goodbye to long standing fears

    Don't crack up
    Bend your brain
    See both sides
    Throw off your mental chains


    This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at April 1, 2023 9:52 AM MDT
      March 23, 2023 4:40 PM MDT
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  • 34452
    It would depend on how much they interacted with me. 
    If it were just camera and no crew, that would not take long at all. 
      March 11, 2023 6:54 PM MST
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  • 53526


      In a span of 60 days, approximately how long is your “not too long”?
    ~

     
      March 11, 2023 7:38 PM MST
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  • 34452
    Just cameras within the day. At work, I am on camera, 8 hrs a day, six days a week. I rarely think about them. This post was edited by my2cents at March 13, 2023 12:45 AM MDT
      March 11, 2023 8:13 PM MST
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  • 16838
    They absolutely couldn't do it. My consent is immaterial, I handle sensitive confidential client information every minute of every working day. The crew wouldn't even get inside the building.
      March 11, 2023 7:50 PM MST
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  • 3025
    Wise.
      March 13, 2023 5:08 AM MDT
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  • 844
    We'll never know because such a thing would never happen. In fact, if I did allow a camera, the "crew" would be so bored that they probably would give it up before the first day was out. Nothing to see here!
      March 12, 2023 6:32 PM MDT
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  • 23659
    I'm thinking along the same lines for me.  :)   Even a cat, too.
      March 13, 2023 12:43 AM MDT
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  • 844
    Hey guys, wait! I'll be getting up to make lunch soon!! Did you see where I set down that Readers' Digest? This post was edited by NYAD at March 15, 2023 8:52 PM MDT
      March 13, 2023 7:07 AM MDT
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  • 23659
    :)
    :)
      March 15, 2023 8:52 PM MDT
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