Experiments

 

Accepting something as normal because it is repeated over and over and over again...then when there is a change that image stands out as being different and therefore not 'normal'

Paused/paused - comparatives (revised)

paused on VHS

paused on DVD

HHH

Triple H paused/playing stills

Lowering opacity without Photoshop

 

In between two windows, creating layered image.

What can I do with these!??!?!?

Barthes on Wrestling

"The public is completely uninterested in knowing whether the contest is rigged or not, and rightly so; it abandons itself to the primary virtue of the spectacle, which is to abolish all motives and all consequences: what matters is not what it thinks but what it sees."

"Thus the function of the wrestler is not to win; it is to go exactly through the motions which are expected of him."

"It is obvious that at such a pitch, it no longer matters whether the passion is genuine or not. What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. There is no more a problem of truth in wrestling than in the theater."

http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~ikalmar/illustex/Barthes-wrestling.htm

Paused/Paused - Comparatives

VHS/Youtube

Comparison between two media files

Things to come....?

The TLC (Tables, Ladders, Chairs - OH MY!) match was definately a favourite of mine!

Old VHS tapes of classic wrestling matches.

There is method in this madness...if I take something less cliche than a switch, and have it playing on the VHS version of pause. The video itself would be in limbo...a strange play/pause thing. And who doesn't want to watch some WWF!?