ERE Week Two
November 07, 2004 | 
46 Comments
Instructions: Look at the image, then leave a comment detailing your initial thoughts, reactions and/or fellings about it.
What is this? Good question, you can find the answer here.
Filed under: Emotional Response Experiment
Comments
1. Scott said:
neon light running around at night
Posted on November 7, 2004 05:57 PM | #
2. Kyle Fox said:
Heh. Scott made a rhyme.
My first thought was “pleasantly dizzy.”
I love the color…
Posted on November 7, 2004 06:01 PM | #
3. Ray said:
Sparklers. Like we used to get when we were kids. Someone would wave one around real fast and you’d cross your eyes and watch the patterns.
Later came ‘shrooms ; )
Posted on November 7, 2004 06:09 PM | #
4. Pete said:
Like Ray, Sparklers. I used to love bending the wire at right angles and spinning circles real fast.
Posted on November 7, 2004 06:24 PM | #
5. Joshua said:
Like looking off to the side while riding an amusement park attraction.
Posted on November 7, 2004 06:50 PM | #
6. Rabbit said:
Energetic, mystified. Kind of makes me want to dance (rave, not club dancing). I could also be content just watching whomever (or whatever) is making the light show.
Prolonged exposure to the image causes me think of “similar” images I’ve seen of photos of deep space and that there must be something else out there. :)
Posted on November 7, 2004 07:42 PM | #
7. Vidar said:
Shiny neon on little or no light enviroment… headache…
Posted on November 7, 2004 08:25 PM | #
8. Bryan Peters said:
Flashback of the last time I went to a rave in an altered state of mind. But not in a good way. It makes my stomach hurt.
Posted on November 7, 2004 08:49 PM | #
9. zach said:
rave.
Posted on November 7, 2004 09:47 PM | #
10. Popsciolist said:
Being chased. The lights with their fuzzy logic algorithms have tracked my path down and are about to pounce. There’s not much space left to run.
(Me, paranoid? Nahh…)
Posted on November 7, 2004 10:18 PM | #
11. Michael Moncur said:
Motion. Chaos.
Drunken photography. :)
I too thought of fireworks, I used to try to take pictures of them and it made similar patterns based on the motion of the sparks and my hands shaking…
Posted on November 7, 2004 10:26 PM | #
12. jay said:
It made me feel a little anxious, like something was about to happen. Not necessarily a good feeling, but commercial nonetheless.
Posted on November 7, 2004 11:33 PM | #
13. Mathieu 'P01' HENRI said:
Disco hypno-glow.
Posted on November 8, 2004 12:21 AM | #
14. Russell James Smith said:
Makes me feel like going into town for a drink.
Posted on November 8, 2004 02:22 AM | #
15. Paul Nattress said:
Bonfire night! Which makes me think that you guys in the US need a Guy Fawkes right now…
Posted on November 8, 2004 03:25 AM | #
16. Philipp Keller said:
- Cool: positive: appealing colours, negative: not feeling home
- Disco (Trance), beeing in trance (like positive, not with drugs..), moving, dancing..
- Carousel (a fast one.. :-)
Posted on November 8, 2004 03:57 AM | #
17. Tim said:
Looks like a bullet train - or a dragon.
Posted on November 8, 2004 03:57 AM | #
18. Vinnie Garcia said:
Makes me feel like I’m at a rave…
Posted on November 8, 2004 04:01 AM | #
19. Lanny Heidbreder said:
Ooh, y’know those metallic pom-pom shaker things on sticks they have at football games? Yeah, it’s an electric iridescent neon-powered one of those, and a slow shutter setting. XD
Posted on November 8, 2004 04:54 AM | #
20. Onno said:
This picture makes me feel like I’ve been drinking quite seriously, and deciding afterwards to take a ride in a carnival attraction.
About the point where the black hole in your memory starts the next morning: “I had a great evening, but how did I get home?”
Posted on November 8, 2004 05:20 AM | #
21. Wade Winningham said:
Interesting desktop wallpaper…
Posted on November 8, 2004 05:51 AM | #
22. Shade said:
Grr, ravers!
-Shade
Posted on November 8, 2004 06:07 AM | #
23. Dougal Campbell said:
It reminds me of pictures of the neon signs on busy city streets in places like Tokyo or Hong Kong. And on the right side, some of the lights form a pattern that even looks vaguely like the face of an anime/manga character. But it’s chaotic and disordered.
Emotionally? I dunno. Excited, anxious, perhaps a little confused, like when going out to explore an unfamiliar city at night.
Posted on November 8, 2004 06:32 AM | #
24. Yannick L. said:
thoughts: colourful, vibrant, exciting, energetic.
what it could be: someone running around with a neon light in their hand and twirling it around.
Posted on November 8, 2004 07:26 AM | #
25. Ben Shewmaker said:
I think of the county fair in August at night. I hear little kids screaming on a ride run by a shady looking carny, who yells at other little kids who try to pick up change thrown out of people’s pockets whilst on the ride. I can hear the other sounds so familiar at the yearly event: loud music from the ‘scary’ rides, throngs of people, babies crying, kids laughing, the mechanical clunks and clanks of the well used rides. And I can almost smell the funnel cakes. mmmmm… greasy carnival food.
Posted on November 8, 2004 07:35 AM | #
26. Thomas Skrimstad said:
It makes me feel envious.
Posted on November 8, 2004 07:41 AM | #
27. Tinuviel said:
I feel like I’m at a rave and someone’s using their glow/light toy to give everyone a light show.
Posted on November 8, 2004 10:02 AM | #
28. Rafal said:
Makes me horny
Posted on November 8, 2004 10:05 AM | #
29. Nick Finck said:
“opps, I left the camera shutter open too long”
Posted on November 8, 2004 12:14 PM | #
30. mike said:
Pink, bright.
Posted on November 8, 2004 12:20 PM | #
31. J. J. said:
It makes me think of a motor speedway at night. Kind of like you’re on the track or in the infield and lights are blurred from moving quickly past the large protective fence in front of the grandstands. Strange thought, I know, but I hope you get the idea.
Posted on November 8, 2004 01:31 PM | #
32. Brandon Walsh said:
Pretty colors, techno, rave!
Posted on November 8, 2004 02:26 PM | #
33. girlwonder said:
it made me feel happy. i thought how much i loved the color pink and then like i wanted to listen to techno music.
Posted on November 8, 2004 03:17 PM | #
34. Adrian said:
It reminds me of the early ‘Acid House’ scene in England back in the days of my youth. Unlike Mr Peters, it makes me happy but also makes me feel old!
Posted on November 8, 2004 03:58 PM | #
35. keil said:
Looks like sparklers, images drawn in the air. How does it make me feel? Like a kid on the Fourth of July playing with dangerous fireworks.
Posted on November 8, 2004 04:38 PM | #
36. Ian Gordon said:
Ooo…purple-y. Nice flashy colors. Streaky…
Posted on November 8, 2004 04:39 PM | #
37. Rene Grassegger said:
Hi there,
for me it looks like on of this big Manga Mechs (Big Robots), and he is rushing against an enemy, with some kind of fast laser attack, may laser wips.
$0.02
Rene
Posted on November 9, 2004 12:36 AM | #
38. António said:
Light and energy. I like to think of myself very relaxed, receiving these bright strings of purple and yellow light.
Posted on November 9, 2004 04:17 AM | #
39. western dave said:
i feel anger and xmas. also, the future and warmth.
Posted on November 9, 2004 07:52 AM | #
40. Robert said:
Incoming plasma pistol and needler fire! Hit the deck!
Sorry, I’ve got Halo 2 on the brain…
Posted on November 9, 2004 09:58 AM | #
41. scott mccrossen said:
this is mardi gras, new orleans. on any weekend night leading up to the big day. plain and simple. lovely with just the right amount of vertigo mixed in.
cheers,
scott
Posted on November 9, 2004 10:25 PM | #
42. Jason Stirk said:
At first made me just think “that’s a nice pink”, closely followed by thoughts of street at night , closely followed by thoughts of an oscilloscope or some sort of technical electron-bendy-graph-type-thing.
Now, perhaps due to the music I am listening to, makes me think of some sort of dance or rave or something like that - feels vibrant and exciting.
Posted on November 10, 2004 07:52 AM | #
43. Michael O'Connor Clarke said:
Twitchy. Slightly irritated.
Posted on November 10, 2004 09:55 AM | #
44. chelsea said:
tacky,
busy,
vegas,
neon,
the county fair,
crowds
Posted on November 10, 2004 07:18 PM | #
45. gordon yeong said:
So much energy inside and ever so exciting outside but the thing is,it’s caging me in.
Posted on November 29, 2004 09:39 PM | #
46. faisal said:
ON FIRST SIGHT…..THE URGENCY OF LIFE COMES IN MIND..WHICH WE FOLLOW ..the uncertanity and the fears…how colourfull yet so unnatural.
Posted on February 15, 2005 01:39 PM | #
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