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Weird. I just tried to post a comment but there was some strange error and I lost all my text. I hope I can remember everything I had to say.
I feel like the last image in the series, the "interact" image, needs to be a bit more crisp to really work with the rest. The others have a very clean and almost sterile quality of commercial photography to them. I wish the theater photo was sharper to fit in better aesthetically with the group. I guess it's mostly noticeable on the screen where the text is blurry. Interesting idea though.
I like how all of the images are uncomfortably void of human interaction... particularly the party shop photo.
these are so perfect and simple the theater is favorite one actually and the most controversial and funny. the idea of sitting a room with strangers sharing an experience completely isolated and without any or as little human interaction as possible. it is funny to think that one seat is yours in that sea of seats you could be any where but that one is yours. i see what you mean about the image being sharper though the words on the screen would have meaning if you could read them which could work too.
A tutorial...the action needed or suggested to interact with the subject. The last one doesn't work with the others, simply because we could possibly read the credits (so it kind of actually works that they are blurry), engage and interact with the image..the others are void of interaction. I think the last image would work and be similar to the party store if the lights were on and the screen blank. you'd just have to sit and wait, uncomfortably until the lights dimmed. These could be about anticipation.
Part of me would like to have the theater sharp too. As soon as I get ten expendable dollars and a worthwhile movie that might happen. Mimi is right in saying that the images are void of interaction, but they have the potential to interact. So thats where the mouse pointer becomes my interaction. All of these 'actions' described can be done on the web, through an image, away from the other individuals you might encounter there. You can purchase frames to display the images you print from your computer. You can send money to a wildlife fund for a reserve on the other side of the world. Search for and tour new homes; purchase gifts and groceries; and if you don't want to go to the theater you can watch the movie on your computer. Online interactions with images (sound familiar?) that represent some common social practices.
I get it but I am not intrigued by the imagery as much as I want to be. I can't help but think of those elements photos you did for Phil's class, and how those can be related to these as a describing series, but yet are so much more involved in terms of their aesthetics. I kind of want to see these images together, in a sort of border-less grid. That way they would form one large image and each word would stand out a bit less, but still visually take me around the picture. Maybe this is how these types of "public awareness" images should look, you know, less about the aesthetic beauty of the framed photograph and more about the obvious subject matter and even more obvious words and arrows. They certainly make a statement without being over-the-top or exploitative.
I realize that the sum of the images is more important than the individuals in this piece, and that my focus was more on satisfying the words first.
yep, i like these ones alot... they are satisfying me in ways i never knew existed. hehe
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