Into the lives of others

The HBO Voyeur Project is a collection of multi-media stories that HBO has built around the theme of voyeurism.

See what people do when they think no one is Watching

is the tagline that they have used to describe the experience that starts in the streets of New York City, behind the countless windows that we pass everyday. It comes together in a silent film that will be projected on the side of a building, and extends to the HBO channel, HBO on Demand, and online at HBOVoyeur.com. There are also “artifacts” of the characters everywhere, pieces of story which have been sprinkled around the web and in the real world to heighten the experience for those who like to get involved. However it is experienced in whichever medium, the point of the HBO Voyeur Project is to get the viewer to confront the uncomfortable question: “Do You Like To Watch?”

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Since being on vacation is the US and A, I have had continued access to my favorite HBO series Entourage and even discovered some new ones like Flight of the Conchords. Between programming breaks they show a teaser for a new media project called HBOVoyeur.

The music and images to the trailer alone are enough to get me hooked, but it goes deeper. Apparently the premier was projected onto a wall in SoHo to kick off the experience. There are twelve interconnected story lines, which take place in four apartment buildings throughout NYC. A visit to the HBO link showcases some very nice flash design which invites the user to explore and watch all of these apartments and their inhabitants further. This is a hypermedia (?) experience with soundtrack downloads from talented composers, character profiles, fake websites, and even phone numbers to call. One writers job is just to document the whole internal process through his blog, leaking some information, thus giving us insight into some things.

Have fun watching. I know I do.