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One year ago the 48 Hour Film Project left a bad taste in my mouth . Our film came in below my expectations, we missed out on best of city, and I found myself considering forgoing the 2016 competition. Thank goodness we didn't because this year's film turned out to not only be our best yet, it ended up winning the runner-up best film prize for the entire Des Moines 48 Hour Film Project. Occasionally I refer to myself as a filmmaker and for the most part I've never really felt comfortable with the term. First off, I've never actually shot with film, but mostly I've never really felt anything I've produced could be considered a narrative or production close to the term. Most of our previous 48 Hour Film project shorts have decent stories and acting but none of the productions really came together to what I would consider a "film." This year I think we've come as close to hitting that nail as we ever have. The film was shot uniquely, has a na

This article was first published by  dmcityview.com Every two minutes camera strapped humans take more photos than existed over the course of the last 150 years. 1.8 billion of our images are uploaded daily to the internet, which means more than 650 billion photos are uploaded every year. Considering when by Joseph Niepce invented the camera obscura in the early 1800s it took 8 hours to capture a single image, the photocentric world we’re currently living in is completely absurd. Not only is the number of pictures taken ridiculous, the number of instruments with the capacity to take picture is nearly as farcical too boot. Between smartphones, DSLRs, point-and-shoot digital cameras, webcams, camcorders, security cameras, and every other device equipped with a lens and sensor you can imagine we are living in a severely bloated image capturing age. Interestingly enough, it’s only going to get worse. 15 years ago, if you went on a family vacation and wanted to take a group picture c