SF Hotel Cam Ready to Steal Your Soul

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The Hotel des Arts does indeed go nuts with various artists commissioned to do over individual rooms, and they're permitted to take the widely practiced idea bit further than more restrained boutique design hotels. But a new ... er, level has been reached with the room assigned to SF artist Jonathon Keats, who installed "a solid brass camera in the double-occupancy room that will create a single photo exposed over a duration of one hundred years." Quoth the sensitive humanitarian Keats:

People are incidental. Eventually they all die. And I don't have any interest in taking portraits. What I'm trying to document is history, in order to get a picture of time itself.

No idea how this is supposed to work technically, as it would have to be either one long exposure (which would be a smear, or just black/white), or a number of exposures over time (still likely to end up a smear). All of this assumes that the room, the Hotel des Arts, or the camera will last a hundred years. The one consolation is that Keats won't, since he will be incidentally dead long before his brass camera finishes its work.

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Hotel des Arts [Official site]

Previously: SF's Hotel des Arts, Jet Set Lara "Slept" Here, Clift Hotel Schrager-Tastic