PLAYERS TASKS PRAXIS TEAMS EVENTS
Username:Password:
New player? Sign Up Here
r0ck c4ndy
Level 2: 108 points
Alltime Score: 3009 points
Last Logged In: December 29th, 2010
TEAM: MNZero TEAM: Team Shplank TEAM: Team Fuck Yeah!
50 + 30 points

Eye of Horus by r0ck c4ndy, star5, Oliver X

March 3rd, 2011 12:16 AM

INSTRUCTIONS: The body of Osirus has been hidden in the environs of the city by Set and his minions. In each part of the game you will recover a part: the head, the heart, the hands and the feet.

YOU are limited, your flesh and your body. But your camera reaches across space and freezes time, it is your wedjat, the eye of action.

Your camera is the eye that ignores the restrictions put upon you and slips past artificial barriers, snares light and holds it in place, creates a relationship between viewer and viewed, and unlocks the spirit of the subject and the photographer.

Eye of Horus was played as a street game in Minneapolis on August 15, 2010. Players are urged to document their experiences here.

I came to the Eye of Horus knowing little except it would be a street game with a camera.
I teamed up with a few others, and we were known as the Galactic Overachievers (or something like that) in regards to how much camera gear we brought among us. One person was taken from each group (Oliver, from ours) and put in another group to be a "watcher". Their job was bascially to make sure that people only took one photograph for each thing.

The game was broken up into 3 sections. For the first section we were given a list of maybe 15-20 words and we had to go out in the neighborhood and photograph something that embodied those things. They could be in any order

Part 2, we were given another list of words. These had to be completed in order, and the photographer had to have a blindfold on. I think we had to switch off who took the photo? or maybe we just decided to do that? I forget for sure.

Part 3, we had another list of words, and this time the watchers had to try to photobomb us. If any of the watchers got in one of our photographs, it counted against us.

At the end, we all met up and reviewed photos. There was a sort of head-to-head style competition where a few of the words were chosen and two teams showed their photos for a few of the goals and the audience voted. This worked ok, but I don't think was perfect. It was neat to see people's photos, but it would have been neat ot maybe be able to choose which of yours were the ones you thought could best compete.

I thought a lot of it was fun, a few things I thought didn't work as well as I'd like. It was great running around and trying to interpret more abstract words in specific ways. There were a lot of things we had to get pretty creative with. The blindfold photography was inetresting. I like having groups interact, but I thought pulling one person from the group wasn't ideal. Especially when there wound up being some small groups. Though I did think the photobombing added an exciting element. We were forced to be very aware and careful of what was in our shots. Our group managed to avoid any photobombers.

Below are a sampling of the 60 photos our group took.

+ larger

terror
a bird at rest
tether
coffin
an insect
the sun
grapes
veins
the great pillar
a tender kiss
the woman looks over her shoulder
lions
fire
charms
sun ray
a handsome young man
wisdom
water
a meal
lost
a butterfly
a great work

7 vote(s)



Terms

(none yet)

3 comment(s)

(no subject)
posted by Ink Tea on March 3rd, 2011 5:16 PM

I like that a lot. Now I'm sad I missed it. Where was I? What was I doing?

(no subject)
posted by star5 on March 6th, 2011 8:51 PM

i don't remember what you were doing? i know you had a conflict. it was a sunday afternoon i think?

(no subject)
posted by rongo rongo on March 6th, 2011 1:33 PM

Your bird at rest was an interesting twist, because I've seen that logo so many times, yet I would not have been able to say really what it was.