Mindscape In Cyberspace

Around My House 1605
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I am always surprised whenever I find a stunning visual, hidden in our usual day-to-day life. Most of the time we really do not realize the visual potential of our mundane surroundings and we tend to ignore them very easily. One needs to develop an eye to see the usual things in an unusual manner. Once you are able to identify the awesome possibilities hidden in our regular context, you will get flooded with numerous stunning visuals, every time you look around yourself. The clichéd scenes from our regular context will start unfurling an endless world of powerful images and effective visual expressions. The attached photographs are taken in and around my apartment and demonstrate the fact that how a common object in an usual context, can become unusual and at the same time, quite stunning, too.

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Around My House 1605
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Around My House 1705
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Park Street Jn., 2004
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Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta, always amuses me, with her vibrancies, colors, lives, ever-changing moods and of course with her warmth. I was born and brought up there; felt her presence around me through my childhood, adolescence and my youth. Each node of the city has multiple images stored for me, multiple stories; each one reflecting various ages, various times of my life. Park Street was a place crowded with yellow taxis and traffic polices with white uniforms, as I used to see it when I was a kid. A kid from suburb, who came to visit a fair or an event near Park Street, and stumbled upon the busy policemen, busy traffic of busy Park Street.

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