You see what I realise I'm trying to do here is show the separation between the real world we live in eg, walk in the park, swim in the sea, go round your mates etc and what im calling the virtual world, sitting on facebook, on-line games, 3D films. This therefore would mean that by the end of the project...by the end of the 150 hours work, all the effort, time etc will eventually still just only amount to binary, nothing real, just a representation. Read, transmitted, received , scanned, captured, posted, blogged. I think there are two ways of looking at this and at this moment in time when the digital revolution has submerged us within itself its simple to overlook this all and regard it as a way of life ( which undoubtedly it has become.) but i feel that this is a huge topic of our life which is often overlooked. Over the next Few posts I will transfer the things ive been looking at and reading and working on up until this date and then from tomorrow will continue as normal, chronologically.
Photography and realism
So I've decided to transfer what I've done so far into a Blog. Blogs are used alot nowdays as a sort of on line diary and i thought this would be very relevant to my project. Over the past few weeks ive been focusing on photographing as an 'in game photographer'. In other words I have been taking photographs not directly as myself... but indirectly as a computer generated character roaming around virtual maps and landscapes. I was talking to someone last night and they said ' do you have a blog?' and this spurred of the idea to, instead of having a research file or sketchbook full of ideas why not fully submerge my whole project in this 'virtual world'
