Inner Space

Television in a contemporary American household

I don't know what I'm looking at and your title, although titillating, is only making my groggy brain more confused :) Well... whatever it is I do know that I like it, and I suspect some of the fun is in not knowing.

Something's missing, Dave. I think I found it! (Hope you don't me mind me invading your space) - Cheers!!

Thanks for looking. Maybe this is just early on-set cabin fever but, as I was doing dishes the other night, the notion hit me to take a close-up shot of the upper right hand corner of little junker tv in the kitchen (complete with rabbit ear.)

 

When I pulled it up on the pc, it seemed kind of interesting as a sort of abstract composition and, rather than go put it through a whole lot of manipulation, I thought it was most interesting pretty much as is. I chose the title both because it's an indoor shot and because it reminded me of some sort of astrophoto, except that it points to a micro- rather than macro- perspective.

 

Chalk it up as an experiment in minimalism. Jack McRitchie may have been right about my having the curiosity of a teenager. If there's a conceptual point it's just that very prosaic objects and scenes have intrinsic visual interest looked at sideways (which is how we most often see them but not how we most often present them in photographs.)

 

The bottom line, though, is that I think it's an interesting image.

 

 

There's a story to the tv, by the way. It has a lot of features but we got it really cheap on clearance because it came without a manual. We've figured out how to make it do what we want for the most part(our demands are fairly simple: on/off, change channel, adjust volume) but sometimes it will do things on it's own for reasons we don't understand. It's something of a household character, an independent logical entity--like a pet.

 

 

 

My email server is down :( and I wanted to tell you that the Jacquie Lawson card thing is OK. Enjoy!

It looks like it could make its own decisions -- one tough set. I like the image and, believe it or not, I instantly recognized the telescoping rabbit ear from years of wrestling with those once-ubiquitous devices. Regards, Joe

Thanks for looking Joseph! If there's one thing I'm not entirely happy with, it's the flash blow-out at the corner but it pairs with the highlight on the ear and does provide a bit of contrast with the darkness of the rest of the image.