Unlike Tuesday’s post, about the importance of text over image, the protester in Batman costume shows us how images grab us –and the media.

It is one of the most photographed ‘homes’ in the world, so it’s not just the media who were targeted, but all those tourists who fill rolls of film (OK, memory cards) at the palace gates. Interestingly Batman had used a digital camera himself to plan his PR stunt.

Camera stunts will no doubt increase as society gets enveloped by digital cameras embedded in phones. Interestingly, on the political side, two PR stunts have been back and forth in the news.

In July, the Drudge Report focused on John Kerry’s Vietnam controversy as a camera stunt, while last year, CBS and other news outlets once floated the theory that Bush’s Top Gun landing on an aircraft carrier was an event designed for the cameras.