Mindscape In Cyberspace

Insomnia in red and white / Saturday 25th August 2007 6.22 AM
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My MacShot Project is a series of low-resolution unedited (except few basic built-in features in Mac Photobooth) photos of myself and other objects surrounding me and my MacBook, taken by the tiny inbuilt Web cam and PhotoBooth. In the beginning, the primary intention of My MacShot project was to capture few selected moments and feelings, involving me and my context, through the built-in web cam of my MacBook. They were visual expressions of few specific moments, sometimes accompanied by few lines of text and a date/time tag. Initially it was more focused towards the physicality of the webcam, the laptop and the operator (that is me), and their interactions and negotiations with their time - both physical and mental. It was more like a personal, as well as very much context-dependant photo-journal or something similar. But later, I got more interested to figure out how one can go beyond the physical limitations of in-built webcam of a MacBook.

As I started taking more and more snaps, often abstract, I started realizing the innumerable possibilities of this tiny in-built webcam and this simple photo-capture software called PhotoBooth. With simple features and functionalities, it allows you to turn usual objects, into amazing pieces of compositions!

I saw him .. the Green Monster .. with a bleeding heart! / Thursday 5 July 2007 20.54 PM
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• My MacShots: Selected MacShots

The second image (The Green Monster) is a close-up of my mobile screen, as captured by in-built Web Cam of MacBook