82. Self Portrait a al Arbus

This afternoon a experienced a rare twenty minutes without any pressing matters to attend to. Thinking it would be great to work on the blog before 10 o'clock I started playing with my webcam on the laptop (the only camera in reaching distance at the time.) With no true direction I ended up with a self portrait merely because I was the only interesting thing to photograph in my office. This image was created with a program called Photo Booth and the effect at the time of exposure was called "mirror". So essentially the image on the right and left is duplicated, but flipped as if in a mirror. The end result reminded my so much of Diane Arbus' "Identical Twins," 1967 in which the Wade sisters are obviously identical but there slight differences in expression become haunting and bizarre when capture with Arbus' camera. So creepy that they inspired Stephen King to reference the image in the "Shining."