I couldn't stop spying on imaginary people.

When I first experimented with HBO Voyeur, I found myself a bit bored. However, after a few minutes I quickly became engrossed. In trying to figure out why, I came up with four tensions which kept me interested in these people's arguably mundane affairs:

1) My freedom in contrast with the characters' containedness.

2) My hyperawarenness in contrast with the characters' naivety.

3) My absolute invisibility in contrast with the characters' explicit and constant visibility.

and, differently,

4) My immobility in contrast with the characters' mobility.

I particularly enjoyed the scene where I was spying on two men who were spying on their neighbor, as well as the one where the corpse was being photographed. I could try to connect these to notions of viewership that we've discussed in class, but frankly I think HBO Voyeur is just plain fun-- indulgence in voyeurism and the novelty of a new media object? Yes, please.