Immersion Sports
Posted on Monday, November 24th, 2008
Among its dish on the internettiness of our facebooky-bloggy-image-crazed culture, Sunday’s New York Time Magazine The Screens Issue, featured a crazy genius multimedia project called Immersion.
Photographer Robbie Cooper shot video of kids’ faces as they played video games. According to the Times, Cooper is “particularly struck by the intensity of people’s experiences while interacting with digital realms.”
Watch the kids. They are so captured by the screen, it’s as if they’re playing the sport, fighting the war, driving the car themselves, which is, I guess, the point of games and gaming.
“It’s fascinating that a world that’s purely visual can have a physical effect,” Cooper told the Times.
He shot the project with the high-resolution RED camera (which TGR used for some footage in its new flick Under the Influence ), and then took stills from the footage.
To me, the still slideshow and the accompanying video (better on the Times’ site than YouTube) are at once genius (concept, shoting logistics, lighting) and a little sad (aggression, intensity and time spent staring at a screen…).
