Michael Rose (Again)

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slavin: I’m not sure, but I think this is the first time in my life that I looked at a real picture and assumed it was from a video game. The photo speaks to the things that console games have down — the geometry and finish of machinery, the blurless fragments of a detonation, smoke effects on a cloudless sky. The avatars’ faces are turned away so you can’t see how difficult it is to simulate a meaningful expression. The outstretched arm in the avatar further from the camera is outstretched just it would be in a studio with someone wearing a motion capture suit. As a videogame still, it’s perfect. As reality, it’s grim and sad, a reminder of something on the planet that continues without hope.  #ludicproxy #butinreverse afterimg: U.S. Army soldiers from the 2nd Platoon, B battery 2-8 field artillery, fire a howitzer artillery piece at Seprwan Ghar forward fire base in Panjwai district, Kandahar province southern Afghanistan, June 12, 2011. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (via A Soldier’s Life In Afghanistan » TotallyCoolPix) Which video game is this from?

slavin:

I’m not sure, but I think this is the first time in my life that I looked at a real picture and assumed it was from a video game.

The photo speaks to the things that console games have down — the geometry and finish of machinery, the blurless fragments of a detonation, smoke effects on a cloudless sky. The avatars’ faces are turned away so you can’t see how difficult it is to simulate a meaningful expression. The outstretched arm in the avatar further from the camera is outstretched just it would be in a studio with someone wearing a motion capture suit. As a videogame still, it’s perfect. As reality, it’s grim and sad, a reminder of something on the planet that continues without hope. 

#ludicproxy #butinreverse

afterimg:

U.S. Army soldiers from the 2nd Platoon, B battery 2-8 field artillery, fire a howitzer artillery piece at Seprwan Ghar forward fire base in Panjwai district, Kandahar province southern Afghanistan, June 12, 2011. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (via A Soldier’s Life In Afghanistan » TotallyCoolPix)

Which video game is this from?

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    this is really sad.
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    I want to run a poll to see how many people realize this is a real photo. Beyond how photorealistic video games have...
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    Which video game is this from?
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    How beautiful this picture is.
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