my digital life

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Another view of the Sunday papers

The pictures below were taken with a Nikon Coolpix 4300. I used the New York Sunday Times as the subject matter and manipulated the DOF. They were shot in colour, but the paper was mainly black and white. Shooting in colour seemed to add a great depth and emotion to the shots.

2003-08-17T21:43:00.000-04:00

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Thursday 14th August 2003 - New York Blackout

This was taken on Park Avenue South somewhere between Midtown and Tribeca. The mood on the street was calm but crazy. There were so many people everywhere. Crazy time in New York.

2003-08-14T12:10:00.000-04:00

The world we walk on
We often photograph that which we see at eye level. I am also interested in what we don't usually see. Living in New York, there is a whole other "earth" under us. It might not be pretty, but it's just as beautiful.

2003-08-14T11:53:00.000-04:00

Reported today on the BBC site:

Stalkers

And some psychologists question whether what has been dubbed celebrity worship syndrome is such a good thing.

They suggest it could be an indication that individuals find it easier to form imaginary relationships with the famous than with normal people - or that such behaviours are a sign of depression or anxiety.

The extreme end of celebrity worship involves obsessional and potentially dangerous stalking where people believe they have to be close to their idols.

But experts say these people make up just a small proportion of celebrity worshippers.

James Houran, a psychologist from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield, has helped devise the Celebrity Attitude Scale, which measures people's interest in celebrities.

He said: "Just worshipping a celebrity does not make you dysfunctional.

"But it does put you at risk of being so.

"There is this progression of behaviours, and if you start, we don't know what's going to stop you."
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mmm...... so everyone playing into the celebrity worshiping game are mad? And they needed professionals to tell them that.

2003-08-13T19:56:00.000-04:00

2003-08-13T13:51:00.000-04:00

66 - Tribeca - Sunday Night

2003-08-12T21:35:00.000-04:00

From the New York Post yesterday.... HOW LOW CAN THEY GO? I love the quotes from "real people". Like they have been scandalised by all this! Hysterical.

August 11, 2003 -- HEMLINES may rise and fall with every passing season, but jeans just seem to keep falling. And falling. And falling.
Denim that actually hits your waist - instead of your hips - seems to have gone the way of the dinosaur. Jeans with rises as low as 5 inches ("normal" jeans have 8- or 9- inch rises) are featured prominently in music videos and teen movies like "American Wedding" and "Thirteen," which opens this week. No surprise low-rise jeans are on top of the back-to-school shopping list for every teenager out there.

"They expose way too much," says Camilo Jimenez, 42, a Brooklynite. "I don't want my daughter to wear them. Practically everything is exposed, and that attracts a lot of men who end up looking and gawking at her." Jimenez has tried to get her daughter to wear more conservative styles, to no avail.

"I try and tell her to get something a little bit higher. But no matter what, she's still going to wear them."

Manhattan author Susan Israelson hates her 17-year-old niece's super low-rider jeans. "As her aunt, not her mother, I can't really say anything," she says. "But personally, I think it's much too sexy for young girls and outrageously bad taste. It just looks like she's selling her wares, that she's looking to have sex with a stranger.

"I know it's a fashion statement rather than a sexual statement, but for the men who are seeing it, it's a sexual statement."

"It would be nice to leave something as a surprise."

2003-08-12T15:31:00.000-04:00

Soho : New York City

This was actually shot with a Canon SureShot, my first digital camera. It was Christmas 2001 and it was so cold. Mum was visiting from Australia and we had just had a HUGE lunch and way too many bloody marys. This picture was a mistake but it really shows the feeling a that time, a couple of months after 9/11.

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