Mirror mugging

Ethan Ham is an artist in New York City. Apparently, you can make a living at that sort of thing.

While avoiding onerous work today, I found his Web site, and browsed through some pictures of his installations. Mirror is basically a monitor and a camera. However, instead of taking your picture and showing it to you, it takes your picture and shows you the picture in its memory that most closely matches the picture it took of you.

So this is all very interesting, etc.

What I want to show you is his Flickr page of all the pictures taken at one showing. It's a fascinating cross-section of people who, all differences aside, uniformly try to screw with the process, mugging for the camera in fun, silly ways.


* This picture is used entirely without permission, so if you're sad about that and are Ethan Ham , email me and I'll take it down.