Do You Like to Watch?
I use to have a friend that was a Voyeur, and he freely admitted it. He found it was nothing to be ashamed of. He was always telling me, “I like to watch”!
Voyeurism is a taboo idea to many people but if truth be known, All of us have a bit of Voyeurism in us, we are just not as freely to admit it as my friend was.
It is all part of our human nature we all slow down on the freeway to see if we can see some gore when we see an accident up ahead or when someone is being arrested, we stare and are just dying of curiosity to know why! Is she a murderer or is he a wife beater or did she embezzle millions of dollars from the company she works for, No! I’ve got, it he’s a “Peeping Tom”, he likes to watch women in various stages of undress without them knowing it!!!! “Oh! I could always tell he was a strange one with those beady little eyes”!
Come on, don’t tell fibs about it, we all do it, we just don’t all admit it!
Well I will admit it if no one else will! I’m a Voyeur! And a few weeks ago I started becoming interested in a site that I had only read about, it had not even gone live yet!
And then finally it did! At 1pm on Thursday, June 28, the HBO Voyeur Website went live and I have been keeping a close eye on what has become my very interesting, most of the time strange neighbors on the corner of Broome & Ludlow and other areas in Virtual, New York City!
The HBO Voyeur Project is a collection of multi-media stories that HBO has built around the theme of Voyeurism.
See what people do when they think no one is Watching
is the tagline that they have used to describe the experience that starts in the streets of New York City, behind the windows that we pass everyday. It comes together in a silent film that extends to the HBO channel, HBO on Demand, and online at HBO Voyeur.com. There are “artifacts” of the characters everywhere, pieces of story which have been sprinkled around the Web and in the real world to heighten the experience for those who like to “get involved”. The point of the HBO Voyeur Project is to get the viewer to confront the Uncomfortable question: “Do You Like To Watch?”
The Story Gets Deeper… is the blog for the HBO Voyeur Project written by Kesu James, who works primarily as a digital writer. She was contacted by HBO because of a documentary she had done about online experiences. They asked her to be an impartial third party and to document the progress of the project in a blog and the result has been part journal, part promotion for HBO, and part documentation. She not only keeps you up to date about what is going on, project wise but she also gives tips & information to help you get caught up to date. I have added here on JabberWocky! so it is easy to get to from here at anytime!
Once inside your apartment you will hear the sounds of the city, see a pair of binoculars and the shade slightly open but when you click on either the shades or the binoculars the shades open up and you then find yourself being drawn closer to the apartment building across the way where all of the window shades are open and there is so much going on in each apartment you only need to click on Reveal Related Stories to see all or click on a single window and all is reveled in that particular apartment! Or, look on the bottom of the screen and you can choose what street and date that you would like to visit click on a street to see more unusual stories!
Me? I am Very Interested in the Artist/Assassin on West 41st Street and the weirdo in the shorts and knee socks that likes to take vacation pictures with the “Stiffs” at Myreson Funeral Home!
When you get into your apartment if you scroll down to the bottom you will find much more information. If you click on “Learn More” you will become privy to the cast of characters, where they are located, who they are and what their roll in the whole thing is by hovering over their highlighted area of your phone book!
It is a very interesting apartment if…You Like to Watch! I know my friend the Voyeur does…Do You?
Thought of the Day:
What is the “Baby on Board” sign for? Does it help us decide which car not to hit in case of an accident?
That’s all for me today, I hope to see you back again tomorrow for some more…
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