Art imitates games imitate life imitates art
by Vladimir Cole 
{ Aug 8th 2005 at 10:00AM }
After graduating from Yale's School of Art earlier this year, 25-year-old Micah Ganske set out
to explore what our games might be like in the future, when technology has advanced to the point where video games
"accurately mirror reality." He writes, "This photographic series is about simulating this eventual simulation by
placing the viewer behind my eyes."
The series of images that he put together won him first place in Adobe's 2005 Design Achievement awards. The New York Times has put put up a slideshow detailing how one of the images (the one pictured here) was composited.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Asher @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
Simply wonderful.
Baker @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
nifty...I'm just wondering who the spectacled cutie is in the second and third photos in the Adobe link?
revolver @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
thats weird
Robert @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
He won an award for that? Come on...
barry @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
so he took pictures, then added a layer with his hands and forearms on top of each picture? and because he didn't balance the lighting in the layers, it looks like a video game? and since the pictures are uninteresting in themselves, he thinks he's proving that the mundane can be interesting through the context of a video game? and he gets a degree and an award from adobe for this?
what a dick.
chris26 @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
haha.
this is so lame...
Dan @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
haters are so sad...
Maxx @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
So it is interesting. But nothing that you need a degree from the school of Art to do. Award worthy, hardly. High school if you ask me. He got the Award from Adobe because he used there software, it means less than nothing.
Asher @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
Forget about the award. It's certainly creative.
bubba @ Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM
Sh!t, if there's one thing i've learned in my life so far it's that if someone insults somethng you've created with no objective reasoning, 9 times out of 10 they are simply jealous of what you've done. You hate it because you can' do it, or because you didn't think of it first. Haters ARE sad.
I enjoyed it's creativity. Good work.