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August 12, 2003

Peeping T610

Being a follower of fashion I recently laid my hands on a Sony Ericsson T610, a phone sporting a colour screen, bluetooth, built in camera and an excellent multiplayer Mini Golf game.
As well as these fine features the phone comes with a small detachable mirror the size of a button, that should be placed right next to the camera lens, making it possible to see your face as your shot is being taken.

The excellent movie Peeping Tom, starring Carl Boehm as Mark Lewis, a serial killer intent on murdering prostitutes, was released in 1960, and caused such hostile reactions that it was pulled from the Cinemas after only a week. Twenty years later it was rediscovered and became an art house classic.

“Mark lives to photograph the final death throes of his victims. Turning a mirror toward their faces, he forces his victims to see their own fear before plunging a spike/tripod leg into their throats. He wants to capture the perfect image of fear on film.”

I knew I had seen this mirror trick somewhere before.

Posted by Nicklas at August 12, 2003 11:17 PM