Originally published at: Ken Burns slowly distances himself from Clarence Thomas photo | Boing Boing
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Alfred Hitchcock quickly, disorientingly distances himself from Clarence Thomas photo
Stanley Kubrick smoothly maintains exact distance from Clarence Thomas photo
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Wes Anderson frames it exactly like he frames everything else.
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Michael Bay turns it into a fiery explosion.
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Maybe he could desaturate the image and have it gradually move under the camera? I’m pretty sure that works for him.
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I see what you did there
Kubrick recreates the entire scene in England at great cost with over 200 takes, all for a two second shot that ends up being cut from the final product.
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“Yeah, see, I wasn’t there to see Thomas. I was there sucking up to my money guy, the guy who’s been working hard to destroy our great country.”
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Kevin Smith crafts a weird Star Wars analogy around the Clarence Thomas photo…
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JJ Abrams adds enough lens flare that you don’t notice.
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Werner Herzog narrates the photo with a subtle tone of disgust and horror before Klaus Kinski bursts into the room and strangles him.
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George Lucas changes the narrative and edits everybody out that doesn’t fit it.
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What the heck? I know this is beside the point, but I thought that place (Bohemian Grove) didn’t allow photos and phones and such…am I thinking of something else?
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It’s a huge no-no during the summer encampment proper but there are exceptions where people can get permission to take pics within their individual group camps. (I mean, so I’ve heard.)
Of course it could also just be that this was one more rule Thomas was willing to flaut.
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Thanks, I thought sure I’d read that somewhere.
I wonder what the policy would be if someone brought a court illustrator as a guest and they spent the whole time documenting the time there. 
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