The New York Times Magazine featured a video of photographer Robbie Cooper’s project showing just how focused young video-game players can be.
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The write-up of the companion slideshow provides even more info:
These images of kids playing video games were created by Robbie Cooper, a British photographer who employed a Red camera — a very-high-resolution video camera — and then took stills from the footage. Cooper, who says he was inspired by the camera technique that Errol Morris used to interview people in his documentaries, arranged his equipment so that the players were actually looking at a reflection of the game on a small pane of glass. He placed the camera behind the reflection so that it could look directly into their faces as they played. Cooper and his collaborators, Andrew Wiggins and Charly Smith, videotaped children in England and in New York.
Cooper, who grew up in Britain and Kenya and played a lot of video games as a child, says he tries to capture “people interacting with worlds that aren’t real.” In his last major project, which was published in the magazine in 2007, he photographed participants in Internet-based games with their virtual-world avatars. Cooper is particularly struck by the intensity of people’s experiences while interacting with digital realms. Drew Hugh, shown above, stares so intently at the screen that he doesn’t blink, and his eyes quickly fill with tears, according to his mother. Cooper says, “It’s fascinating that a world that’s purely visual can have a physical effect.”
9:42am, Thunder Shop in Leadership Square
The store awaits its opening at 10am. Thousands of Thunder fans await 10am for another reason — individual game tickets go on sale. Based off the fact that season tickets sold out so quickly, Thunder tickets will likely be hard to come by.
5:56pm, Northbound Centennial Expressway/I-235
A pair of concerned citizens hang over the 50th Street overpass along the Centennial Expressway letting northbound commuters heading home know how they feel about the government’s proposed economic rescue plan: “No bailout,” read the florescent pink, hand-written signs.
7:04am, Main Street Parking, Downtown Oklahoma City
Looking south from the 7th Floor of the Main Street Parking garage in downtown Oklahoma City, you can see the Ford Center, new home of the Oklahoma City Thunder NBA team, on the left and the historic Colcord Hotel on the right.
3:44pm, Fast Lane, Edmond
My van rolls through the drive through car wash at the Fast Lane on Broadway in Edmond, getting a long overdue cleaning after getting a long overdue oil change — all made possible by an early end to my work day.
6:50pm, Edmond Santa Fe High School auditorium
Karla and Ashley wait for the start of Sarah’s induction ceremony for DECA.
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7:15pm, Edmond Santa Fe High School auditorium
Sarah (fourth from the right) takes the officer’s oath during the induction ceremony for DECA. In her first year in DECA, the membership voted her to be Reporter for the club. The club’s adviser speaks very highly of Sarah and believes she has a promising future in the organization.
(Yes, yes, I know… the photo is horrible. Someone… cough, cough… was too lazy to bring his real camera to the event and take decent photos. What kind of a father would do that?)
11:58am, Park Avenue at Robinson Avenue, Downtown Oklahoma City
Downtown bustles during the noon hour as people venture out to enjoy the beautiful day over their lunch break. Today is absolutely gorgeous and the perfect temperature!
11:59am, Richey’s Grill in the Oklahoma Tower, Downtown Oklahoma City
Karla joins me for an impromptu lunch date, an instant cure to the Monday malaise. (The gorgeous mid-day weather certainly helped act as an antidote to the Monday-induced mental dreariness.)
* * Taken with my iPhone. Standard disclaimer about the photography quality applies.
12:02pm:
A snapshot from my iPhone from the second floor balcony looking down on the first floor atrium area in Leadership Square in downtown Oklahoma City.
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