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British photographer Robbie Cooper used stills from the video taken by his RED camera to show that look of total concentration achieved by kids as they play some particularly absorbing video games, including Grand Theft Auto IV and Call of Duty 4.

Cooper had the kids look at a reflection of the game in a plane of glass, and put his camera behind the glass so the kids wouldn’t be self-conscious about the giant fancy camera pointed right in their faces. This technique is evidently Cooper’s homage to Errol Morris’ “Interrotron” that the filmmaker used for many of his documentaries. The interplay between the real and unreal worlds is Cooper’s ostensible subject, but mostly the photos are just great to look at.

The stills are fantastic quality and it’s an odd bit of voyeurism to look straight into somebody’s eyes when they’re concentrating on something totally different. The other galleries on the site are all really impressive, but this one hit me hard: I’m sure that’s how I look right now, staring at my laptop screen.

new york times
source: gizmodo

Police dash cam of Meteor over Edmonton, Canada.
Filmed about 5:30pm Thursday November 20th 2008.

The new video from zZz – running with the beast…. from their amazing new album.

Running with the Beast, a video by Roel Wouters for the title track of zZzs Latest album.
The video features two artists who have created the conditions to capture rage in a sytematic way.
Two colored cocks print their fight on a series of posters.

Two things:

1. I want to work with those guys
2. I want one of those paintings

so, zZz? (no animals were harmed making this vid)

inspired by Thomas Edison’s film:

SMule: Ocarina [Zeldarian] from SonicMule, Inc. on Vimeo.

how i spent my evenings… lol

Street With A View is a performance project that injects fiction and fun into the world of Google Street View. On May 3, 2008, a group of artists worked with the Google Street View team to create a spectacle along Sampsonia Way in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A ticker tape parade with a marching band, a marathon, sword fight and more were all staged with the help of neighborhood residents. Google’s 360-degree cameras captured all the mayhem, and the scenes are now live on Street View. According to the Street With A View website, this marks the first ever artistic intervention ever in Google Street View.

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