Continuing in the vein of self-mockery and introspection of one's own image, comes the following piece. The first image in the sequence is a still from a video documentary, in which I eagerly present the item of discussion with passion, so that it and I may be taken seriously. And then pulling the old 'freeze somebody mid-speech trick' gives the wonderful image - revealing (or creating) the fool. The subsequent self-portraits are an imitation and a jest of that attempt to appear sincere.
Imitation of Me (click to enlarge)
I'm steadily developing a continuing use of the 'PhotoBooth' application on Mac, which is essentially using a webcam to take pictures and make videos of yourself. Wonderful!
There's a history to the fascination of this activity. One of its early pioneers was Gary Brolsma with the now incredibly infamous '
Numa Numa Dance'. This has become one of the most viewed viral videos in the history of the web, it sparked a craze with web cam performances, (one of the most notable follow-ups being '
Two Chinese Boys'). More on this phenomenon later.
Imitation of Me (detail)
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