[dorkbotsea-blabber] Gameboy photography show this Friday Apr 18, 7pm

[spoke at speakeasy.net]

Hey Dorkbotters -

Sorry for the blatant self-promotion, but I thought that people on the  
list might be interested in this opening I'm having tomorrow night. It  
is a large mural, six feet by 18 feet, of photos all taken with the  
Nintendo Gameboy camera. Here 's the blurb and flier:

TWO BIT SHADOWS
Photographs by John Adair
Wall of Sound
315 E. Pine St., Seattle
Join us on opening night: Friday April 18th 7pm-9pm

In 1995 Nintendo released what, by any measure, remains to this day  
the worst camera ever made. A cartridge for the original Gameboy, the  
Gameboy Camera takes pictures in four "colors" (if you can call white,  
black, light gray & dark gray colors) at an astonishing 0.009 mega- 
pixels. John has been using this camera for years to take snapshots of  
his daily life - obsessively cataloging and printing them out on the  
matching (and matchingly shoddy) Gameboy Printer. "Two Bit Shadows"  
collects 774 of these photos, blown up to 4x5 prints, into one large- 
scale mural to uncover the momentary histories and hidden orders  
revealed by the most reductive imaging device ever made.

Thanks and maybe a few of you are into it and can make it down.

Here's the flyer, along with some views of the photos and the progress  
--> http://www.flickr.com/photos/rusted_androgyne/2421565142/


John


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