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Heh, these are wicked my friend> love the concept!! well done you xx

I like the ones where people are walking past but cnt help but look, they dont have the confidence to stop and pick them up, but the nature of humans is that they have to atleast take a look.

Very clever. Like it!

ha ha thats brilliant u have proved to be quite a good little stalker an asset to the world

Before I saw the pics, and when I read the first line and it said 'flash mobs' i felt a shudder.

But after reading the whole idea through and seeing the pics, I like it. Brilliant stuff.

I think that's absolutely ace. More flash mobs!

Great work.

Yeah, me too.

Really nice work there Chris. :)

That's really quite cool.

Really nice idea, I like.

Nice idea, but a bit poorly executed. It'd be better if the camera was set in one position so every shot was the same, so as more photos are added and people view them, it dawns on them exactly where the camera is, and that their photo is being taken. Maybe you could ask the peopl in the cafe if they'd mind you pluggin in a laptop & printer and do it all digitally? And maybe instead of on the floor, place the photos in the window, with it slowly being obscured as more photos are added, so the final picture is one little square of window left?

I think using Poloroids works better than if he had done it digitally. And I think people are more likely to take notice of a selection of Poloroids on the floor than if they were in a cafe window. Also, I think that the way the camera captures the reactions of people when they stop and bend down to look at the photos on the floor is nicer than if they just stopped to look at photos in a window. All imo of course.

Anyway, excellent idea, I really like it.

I don't agree, it's the variety of the shots that makes it so interesting. If it were a fixed-point camera it wouldn't be any good, it'd be like candid camera or something and people don't like that, not to mention there'd be no point looking at the photos anyway because it'd be the same shot with different people.

Hmm jeebus, I think the window idea is entirely against what I was aiming for. My inspiration was from Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki. When he was struggling to get his work seen back in the 70's (80's maybe?) he made a book of his work with a photocopier. He then sent it out to random addresses picked from the phone directory. The idea that someone wasn't expecting to see 'art' was what I was aiming for. These people, marching between places they had to be, heads down taking in nothing much more than the path their walking on, was who I wanted to catch - interupting their day with something different - maybe even enriching their day somehow. Having them in a window would be expected. When you look in a window, you're looking for a reason - hoping to see something. Hope that makes sense.

As for the polaroids, this was a choice rather than convenience (I didnt even have a polaroid before and I do have a digital camera) - someone once said, with a polaroid, the way they are a presented in their own little frame makes each one undoubtedly a 'picture'. Even if you take a 'shit' shot you still get a picture out of it. Plus they are rarely seen these days.

And every single person realised what was going on when they saw the flash and heard the rediculously loud camera ejecting the photo - that was quite nice as they realised they had become part of it. The group of three girls (second to last picture) even waited around to see their picture come out .

Also, please note that most of the above comments have been copied across by myself from a different location which explains the dodgy looking timestamps.

A wonderfully executed idea. Simple, superbly presented and technically a joy to behold. Really, really nice stuff.

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