http://heliolith.com/archives/2004/10/02/height-in-politics/ The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be. - Pete Seeger Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:59:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://heliolith.com/archives/2004/10/02/height-in-politics/#comment-94 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 http://heliolith.com/archives/2004/10/02/height-in-politics/#comment-94 Well we all know that during the campaign the cameras were intentionally positioned to equalize their differences in height. It's funny--like those maps that "accurately" portray a 3d space in 2d--while their heights appeared the same, everything was bigger in one frame as compared with the other. Doesn't this have some psychological impact on the viewers' perceptions of their respective strength? And was I the only one to notice that the camera was bumped and jogged while Kerry was speaking so that the whole view nodded once--down, up, and then back to normal? Probably an accident, but in a discussion of minute differences and small subconscious perception manipulations, it counted, if only a little. Well we all know that during the campaign the cameras were intentionally positioned to equalize their differences in height. It’s funny–like those maps that “accurately” portray a 3d space in 2d–while their heights appeared the same, everything was bigger in one frame as compared with the other. Doesn’t this have some psychological impact on the viewers’ perceptions of their respective strength? And was I the only one to notice that the camera was bumped and jogged while Kerry was speaking so that the whole view nodded once–down, up, and then back to normal? Probably an accident, but in a discussion of minute differences and small subconscious perception manipulations, it counted, if only a little.

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