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Farhad Manjoo is filming everything

Last summer, New York Times technology columnist Farhad Manjoo looped himself into a zeitgeist that began with Albert Brooks’ 1979 mockumentary Real Life and has continued since via everything from The Truman Show to reality TV to the web. He installed cameras in his dining room and living room to record every moment shared with his wife and their two young children.

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The cameras are turned off when guests visit. Otherwise, as Manjoo explains, it’s proven to be a gift:

“I’ve found these cameras to be just wonderful at capturing the odd, beautiful, surprising, charming moments of life that we would never have been able to capture otherwise.

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