I'm sorry, but most of the photos here seem very self-conscious. If you're going to go that route, at least go over the top.

-- Jeff Spirer (jeffs@hyperreal.org), February 26, 2000

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This guy (girl?)'s gunna gimme nightmares t'night...that's not the lens, but the subject, warping reality, right? Hypertelekinespookyboogaloo, rated at VISO (voodoo ISO)?

-- shawn gibson (SeeInsideForever@yahoo.com), February 26, 2000.

Is this the annual gathering of Hyperreal staff for the "overcast: BYO orange raincoat and facemask raindance rave?" :)

Three things I really like: 1) Face mask 2) Orange orange orange 3) Barren-ness

Great image. the only thing I think is out of place is the building...maybe you could have hidden it behind the subject?

-- Edward Kang (ekang@cse.nd.edu), February 27, 2000.

Take your friend on a trip. Various well selected contexts with the same subtle "attitude" would make a provocatively mysterious commentary on the specific conditions of any local with pronounced specifics (this local is too non-specific). Garbage dumps, shopping malls, beauty salons, bus stops, finacial districts (busy or empty). The dispassionate insulated non-observer? (perhaps hinting at consumerism, the new religion).

nice booties, by the way...

There seems some sort of manufactured innocence here, the slight (and slightly inquisitive) bodily gesture, the bland plastic visage... how is that?... t

-- tom meyer (twm@mindspring.com), February 27, 2000.

So here's why critique is so important - Ed wants less context, Tom wants more. This shot is probably too much in the middle to be a complete success. It's at a drive-in theatre (see the shot below, which has more context) that I've been shooting at quite a bit. The "booties," Tom, were bought in Morocco for $3. The subject is my son.
Don't Look Now

-- Jeff Spirer (jeffs@hyperreal.org), February 27, 2000.

Great idea! I really like it. I wonder if, for those of us who do not posses an obliging son, it could be done with a mask, raincoat an a broom or something....?

Into the hardware store tomorrow to try it out! :-)

Thanks.

-- Allan Engelhardt (allane@cybaea.com), March 01, 2000.