Today's lesson

[telophase]

I've been running around the building taking a new batch of photos of students for the website. As I prefer not to have posed photos, I'm taking candids and trying not to be spotted* so I often end up having to focus on someone and wait for a weird expression to pass, or their hand to move away from their face, and so on.

The primary thing I've learned from this? People pick their noses a lot when they think they're not being watched.



* I put on my name tag, which I almost never wear, so they know I'm legit! And if anyone asks me not to take a photo of them, I won't, but nobody's asked it so far. We asked the university about the legalities involved in taking photos of students, and it turns out they all sign a document when they enroll that gives blanket permission for their photos to be taken and used for University business at any time. I still wouldn't take a photo if someone asked me not to, though!

Comments

[thomasyan.livejournal.com]

I don't have a URL handy, but I remember reading a news article recently about someone who uploaded programs to Apple stores to take pictures of customers as they used the computers in the stores, and the results were kind of interesting. I now don't clearly remember what the results were -- maybe, strangely expressionless/emotionless? I don't remember if there was anything about picking noses.

[chomiji]

.... didn't you formerly have a tag that said something like "because I'm really 12"?

XD