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michaeldey


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Challenge: What is the Matrix? (Classic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D1X
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
Date: May 20, 2003
Aperture: 4.5
ISO: 640
Shutter: 1/80
Galleries: Abstract, Still Life
Date Uploaded: May 20, 2003

This photo is a play on a painting by René Magritte in which a painting of a pipe is telling the viewer they are not actually looking at a pipe, they are looking at the picture of a pipe.

Statistics
Place: 106 out of 140
Avg (all users): 4.2772
Avg (commenters): 5.5714
Avg (participants): 4.5195
Avg (non-participants): 4.1280
Views since voting: 1015
Votes: 202
Comments: 14
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/27/2003 02:03:45 PM
good job. nice pic.
05/27/2003 09:50:25 AM
Bravo, very nice interpretation of the challenge. A surrealist take on the meaning of the matrix.
05/25/2003 09:49:43 PM
Et ceci n'est pas Marcel Duchamps. I like the idea here to use the surrealists to convey the Matrix concept - a lot more original than all those sunglasses and blue and red pills. However, i find the execution of your creative idea lacking. You didn't bother to rearrange your computer set up for this pose and it sets there, a bit clumsily for the picture, probably exactly as you always use it. The cardboard with the Ce n'est pas un ordinateur also sits there slightly awkwardly. I don't mean to come down so hard on you but the idea was excellent and you took the time to do the cardboard and approximate the font but then, unfortunately, you didn't take the time to do the real shot. 6
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05/25/2003 09:12:21 PM
I like the lens distortion.. but that right side feels awfully empty.
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05/25/2003 07:33:44 PM
like the idea
05/25/2003 02:15:51 AM
tres bien!
05/23/2003 08:37:52 AM
lol. That is too funny. I'll give you a 9 because it rocks. Jacko. 9

lol. you spelled it wront. instead of Ce should read Ceci . :)
05/22/2003 05:14:22 AM
Big smile. Like the wide-angle shot, don't like the curve on the writing though that would have been so tricky to sort out! And the shadow line under the writing is also a pity. High-key is both helpful and probably necessary. The only shot that's touched on the philosophical antecedents of the film too, at least as far as I've seen in voting. wonder how many people will give it enough time? A couple of minor criticisms: the messiness of the computer - I mean the dark monitor surround, the white keyboard, the grey and pale blue CPU case, the label on the side - distract a little; and the text being off-set to one side of the computer also. Actually, the more I look the less I like the wide-angle image: doesn't add anything, in fact possibly detracts ...
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05/22/2003 04:54:40 AM
I can`t see the link to matrix the movie.
05/22/2003 12:42:22 AM
Great, now you made me pull out my French to Enlgish dictionary :P One of my favourite paintings on the desktop btw
05/21/2003 05:13:41 PM
I think it would have been more clever if you had left Magritte's painting off screen. And setup the shot with proper lighting.
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05/21/2003 01:23:56 PM
Mon dieu, il est un 'Dell'!

For a 10, an Apple cube would have done the trick! :-)

05/21/2003 09:03:53 AM
Kind of bizarre idea - but I like it.
05/21/2003 05:08:13 AM
hmm....doesn't tell me much of Matrix. It look like a PC advertisement more than a photohgraphing


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