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| Saturday, May 13, 2006 |
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As I have continued to meditate upon my early experiences with video games I have noticed that all of these stills (that I haven't looked at for years) are not only tied to the video game itself, but also reveal a lot of my experience as a child. Sure, perhaps it would have been better if I would have been playing games with friends in my backyard, however when I see this image of joust I remember waking up early in the morning, my parents still asleep on a saturday morning, and removing the old antenna from the back of a black and white tv, and screwing in the co-axial adapter for my atari. Here I would play joust, before my morning ritual of cartoons had begun, the house still quiet, and the sun had still not yet risen. My tv was situated in front of a heating vent, and a green blanket was wrapped around my body. These were my first experiences into the realms of teleprescence. My first avatars. In this painting, I have painted in myself to represent the transcendence into the digital world. Sure, today video games may incorporate virtual reality, but back then, riding around on my ostrich seemed pretty real.  |
posted by Jeremiah Palecek @ 4:16 PM   |
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