jane + justin
Tokyo Game Show - September 2002
Full Body Scan
 lay down, like this? |
 howdy from the future. |
 should we keep our eyes open? |
 the glow passes beneath |
 don't make me laugh - |
 reviewing the results |
A Scanner Lightly.
A booth in the far hall of Tokyo's convention center Makuhari Messe beckones - full body scan and print-out for 2000 yen (about 18 dollars). Full-body painted portraits comissioned are expensive in labor. Photo portraits printed large are prohibitively costly for photopaper. But here was laydown, scan, print, twenty minutes and you have a four foot by six foot lifesize print out of yourself in some horizontal posture to frame for posterity.We were told not to apply any direct pressure against the glass - no lifting ourselves up on our elbows, for example. We decided to keep our eyes open - slightly tough, like staring into the sun. Not directly, in this case, not like another time I scanned my face (Wilson wore sunglasses). And we decided not to create any effects through movement. Pretty straightforward scan, celebrating the marvel of fullbody scanning itself and enjoying our union by just looking at eachother as the bright bar passed beneath.
While the poster itself is a marvel and should be hanging in our bedroom forthwith, we were fortunately also able to get our digital bits. The people at the Azero booth were kind enough to burn our files on a CD when we returned the next day. The life-size scan was a 116 megabyte EPS, or 7.5 megabytes rendered as a jpeg.
Can you see my honking zit?
Check out the AZero page listing 128 other body scans from the Tokyo Game Show.
