Co-Opting Camera Culture for the Purpose of Praxis by Ty Ødin
September 13th, 2010 8:05 PM
13 vote(s)
Markov Walker
5
Sombrero Guy
5
Pixie
5
gh◌st ᵰⱥ₥ing
4
Lincøln
5
Dan |ØwO|
5
relet 裁判長
5
anna one
4
Alex Blair
5
APR dreamlands
5
Ben [Sunshine]
5
C. J.
3
Great President Dad
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Thank you very much for the spark of inspiration.
This is creative, unique, unexpected and true. Why only four people have voted for this is a mystery to me
I have looked over this a few times, but I can't tell which task it's completing or what the pictures are of, or what narrative it's trying to tell, or which strangers took these pictures. I pretty much have no idea what's going on here.
I plead ignorance, message me with the answer so that I may vote with confidence.
I'm not exactly a stranger, but I have never met Ty, so I can post this explanation without blowing Ty's completion:
This was inspired by Markov Walker's half-serious musing on Pixie's praxis of the same task.
"If your Proof consisted solely of documentation by strangers, wouldn't you have to get strangers to write the text for you too? Or leave the text out entirely?"
I first found a brilliant pre-tired task to complete, "In the Name of Bob".
I inquired if Markov was going to take on his previously stated idea and, when he said I should do it, distributed 12 disposable cameras randomly throughout my neighborhood by way of mailboxes. I also left typed instructions asking my neighbors to take pictures of anything and return the cameras to my mailbox.
4 cameras made it back. 3 loaded with delicious pictures of anything and 1 with a large question mark scrawled on the side. I developed and uploaded the returned pictures.
Chaos, scientifically, is defined as a condition under which reactions are more likely to happen. By introducing the cameras to my neighborhood I allowed for new kinds of interactions with objects that never would have happened before.
If you would prefer an explanation message me.