While looking for a featured “picture of the month” for June, I came across this image from last month’s Maker Faire in San Mateo, California.

The Boy in the Pink Shirt

See this image in the Gallery.

I was looking for images that might be suitable for an exhibition entitled “Alternative Realities” which, although mainly seeking images created using alternative photographic processes, professed to be open to other interpretations of the title. We’ll see!

Of all the possible candidates I found, this one caught my eye and stuck in my head like one of those musical earworms – probably because of the strange surrealistic quality it possesses. I honestly don’t know whether or not it’s a good picture, but I DO know it’s one I can’t forget – so it probably has some deeper meaning that I’m not consciously aware of.

In case you were wondering, this is NOT a double exposure or a computer trick – just a regular picture taken as I (and the boy in the pink shirt) chased a flashing neon robot shark around a darkened warehouse… each for our own arcane reasons. The strange astronomical vortex they appear to be running towards is simply a light pattern projected onto the floor as part of another Maker exhibit.

So is it just me? What do you think?