Vol.2

Following the success of the response to my book, I have accumulated many more individuals profiles, willing to participate and make a second volume of 'Another Socket in the Wall'. Each profile continues to add another layer of meaning and understanding on the subject, shedding light on these what we consider private or personal emotions. More details to follow.

Its time

here we are http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=679376

Book Samples

Here are a few samples I propose to use for the book. They are subject to change however, if you have any comments/feedback on the design so far it would be very much appreciated!


















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Signs of life.

Finally i have started to recieve reply from possible contributors to the book. Here are some excerpts from the emails and a little profile pic.
Pyscotica from Italy

Hi MARTIN,

Do I believe (I hope) to have understood what you want to do; you would Like that I wrote some sentence and I passed you some my photos??? How long do I have for sending you the material??? Will this book be a virtual thing only or I has understood badly me??? It still excuses for my English and excuse if I don't understand everything.








wes7strings from Italy

Hi,
hi speak good english..I'm interested to know more about this project also because I'm a photograph and I have lots and lots of pics with depression and suicide themes..
Bye

Alessio "Wes"

El Negro from USA


well ill do it but im not depressed

They all want to die.

Ok. Update time on the book. The book has developed a new addition of emotions to be discovered through myspace. The happy people vs the depressed ones seemed to clash a bit too much within the context of the one book. I thought to extend the documentation to those who also label themselves as suicidal. Also after noticing the trend of only finding people from america and england who fell under this category i realised (of course) that the language barrier of typing in these words would of course only find people who use english as their language. The search has now been extended to other european countries, with the help of google translator. Here is a preview of some of the text/images that I intend to use for the book.



Depression.
The depression is a life style, an optimal companion, a fabulous ispiratrice MUSA and creed an optimal situation in order to appreciate the small things.
E' be my first love and I will always carry it within of me.

The new & improved idea.

Following on from my thoughts on potentially collecting images of photographic errors on the web, I have decide it would be better to make a collection that presumably no-one or not many people have before as photographic glitch collections already are quite popular on the internet. I have moved on and decided to make a collection of myspace profiles of those on the two extremes of emotion, happy/joyous vs depressed/suicidal. The publication will show images from their collection as well as text from their profile. I am very much interested in the psychology of those who spend much of their time on internet profiles. To avoid any bias I am only choosing those who label themselves to be experiencing that relevant emotion. Hopefully the extremes in contrast will help to provide some kind of understanding of the individuals and raise question why they exprience these emotions.

This is digital pop. We are the Andy Warhol of the Internet

At the halftime show of SuperBowl XXXviii Justin Timberlake sang the line "I'm gonna have you naked by the end of this song" and tore the right breast from Janet Jackson's costume. A scandal ensued, and the following day news outlets in North America digitally altered the image of Janet's breast on television and in newsprint. The unaltered image of Janet's breast was available on the Internet, which caused it to be, in the words of the Lycos Top 50, "the most searched for event in the history of the Internet".

The incident was referred to as a "wardrobe malfunction", a glitch in the half-time show that provides an erotic error to launch the signal text of glitch art.

This is digital pop. We are the Andy Warhol of the Internet.

Reading

Click here to read a very well written essay on photographic glitches.