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in churches my head sometimes stretches out into a strange florescent trumpet
.This is actually a common enough effect in long exposure shots; the walking body sways, and
the figure produced is strangely thin, or just legs, or (like this one) oddly distorted. Matt Brooker took the photo: he was aiming at
the red, red altar back.
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in uncomfortable situations I can look lasers
.Some mote of dust, maybe, or a rogue reflection from the mirror (far right)
or that horrible silver shirt. Ugly, uncomfortable, hating smiling for the photo;
no wonder the camera tried to erase me. Photographer: my mum.
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when my wings are black I have supernatural levels of ennui
.The wings belong to a friend. The camera is in the hands of (I think) Damian Cugley. No, I
don't know the photo is being taken, I have my eyes closed.
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i have a disturbing stare
.Photographer Matt Brooker claims I look at "my prettiest and most doe eyed" in these shots. I'm inclined
to look like my better-looking younger brother. Either way, that gaze is indefinably wrong.
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i can make explosions!
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An accident of composition and timing has me pointing at one firework while another explodes. Habitually
I point with my little and first finger (it's a comics thing, not a rock or satanist thing). The strange gesture,
explosion, blur, odd clothes, all combine to make it look a lot like I just lost my temper with something flying overhead.
This is one of Matt Brooker's millennium photos.
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my mind beams in and out
.The photo is by Damian, the sun by some deity or other. Please forgive the hair and
clothes, this was a long time ago.
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