Camera Games

A friend at a party told me about this short film by Chris Ware and This American Life – I just watched it and need to share it. Watch:

I told him after he told me the story that in my first year of teaching, which would have been 1998 sometime, I was on yard duty, and saw a group of little kids – probably third or fourth graders – chasing a lone child. This drew my attention, and as I watched them all race past, I saw that the whole crowd of chasers were holding imaginary cameras and making that “chicka chicka” sound that symbolizes a fast camera shutter. They were playing Paparazi. It was a year after Diana and company had died.