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July 31, 2006
Plongeon rafraichissant dans une webcam / refreshing plunge inside a Webcam

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Qui, en visitant une webcam dans une contrée exotique, n'a jamais rêvé de traverser l'écran? Le copain de Marseille et photographe Eric Franceschi l'a fait. Il raconte aujourd'hui dans le Los Angeles Times sa fascination pendant trois ans durant pour une webcam dirigée sur une rue de Rovaniemi, une petite ville de Finlande, sur le cercle polaire (où habite le Père Noël, dit-on.) En Mai, il a décidé de se rendre à l'intérieur de l'image (c'est lui au centre, encerclé) et de photographier la rue de la perspective d'un piéton (vignettes autour.) Extrait:

Who has visited a Webcam of some exotic country without dreaming of walking into the screen? Friend and Marseille photographer Eric Franceschi did it. He tells of his experience in today's Los Angeles Times. For three years, he cultivated a fascination for a webcam directed on a street of Rovaniemi, a little town on the Arctic Circle in Finland (coincidentally, where Santa Claus comes from, according to legend). In May, he decided to travel inside the image (that's him, in the middle of the pic, above) and to photograph the street from the perspective of a pedestrian (surrounding vignettes). Excerpt:

"A Rovaniemi, j'ai eu l'impression d'arriver dans un endroit familier, comme si j'étais passé à travers l'écran sans passer par Roissy et Helsinki. Comme si j'avais voyagé dans le temps, pour me retrouver sur une scène de théâtre, personnage au rôle unique parmi les acteurs de ces scènes urbaines dont je connais le décor presque par cœur."
"Rovaniemi was immediately familiar. Though it took two connecting flights to get there, I felt like I had walked directly through the computer screen without a layover. I was a time traveler, a character or extra on a theater stage with scenery I know by heart."

Le LAT a toute l'histoire en anglais mais seulement un extrait du montage photo d'Eric. La photo détaillée est ici.

The LAT has the full story in English but the print version only has one portion of his photo montage, which can be found here.

PS: Glad some of you liked it, and sorry for the non-functioning comments. I was reminded of this story recently in the New York Post, of a guy who spent years in prison for a crime he didn't commit and was exonerated. He described going outside of prison like "leaping inside the television set."
Posted by emmanuelle at July 31, 2006 09:38 AM
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