Interesting ‘Immersion’ project in NY Times
2008 November 23
This weekend the New York Times Magazine, “The Screens Issue,” included a feature called “My Game Face,” a photo essay showing young video gamers as they play. The images were created by Robbie Cooper, who writes on his blog and Web site that he’s long been a fan of Errol Morris, and thus set up a high-resolution video camera behind the reflection of the kids’ game of choice to capture them looking at the screen.
I love the look of concentration on Alexander Kinch of Grimsby, England, above, playing “Call of Duty 4.”
Video posted below as well.
What I also found in researching Cooper is that he and I share a similar set of interests. He recently wrote about new video game “Mirror’s Edge,” which I tried this weekend and plan on writing about shortly, posted The Onion video on the fake YouTube contest, which I also posted and linked to the recent Atlantic article on transgender children, which was one of the best magazine stories I’ve read in a while. All very interesting stuff.
Photo | Robbie Cooper from “Immersion” project
