How do you feel about bullets? Robbie Cooper unveils the faces of video gamers…

Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under Multimedia, Photography Links

Ever wondered what you actually looked like whilst pulling that contorted face in an effort to have little Mario jump far enough so that he doesn’t fall to his doom? How about when you’re on your last life and the countdown is ticking away?

Wii tennis? Now don’t even get me started…

In an exceedingly innovative piece for the New York Times, titled ‘immersion’, Robbie Cooper photographed young video game players reacting to games under similar circumstances…only more guns and grenades were involved (whatever happened to friendly old Mario?).

To get the shots, Cooper rigged up a high resolution RED video camera behind a pane of glass, and projected the games onto the glass.

Check it out here…

Permalink | November 22nd, 2008

One Response to “How do you feel about bullets? Robbie Cooper unveils the faces of video gamers…”

  1. Sabrina Says:
    November 26th, 2008 at 12:22 am

    Woah… this is really interesting, love this idea!

    BTW I must link to your blog. This was my favourite free layout too :) Black just looks better with photos for some reason! What plugin did you use for this Related Posts thingy?

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