Credits
Model: Erez Blanks
Art direction: Dana Elkis
Language Editor: Micheal kilfe

The Push notifications
body LANGUGE

Observing figures to create a spectrum of motion, some in anticipation and others as reaction to push notifications. Presented in an endless loop with playful cynical commentary to emphasize the muscle memory we’ve all found ourselves going through the motions.

GLIMPSE!

stare

gaze
or
don't

Just one and another one

JUST THIS ONE

and another after THAT

and THAT

TALK AND DRIFT
AND talk

SHOW off some
of your skills

YOU CAN DO IT!
TALK AND CHECK NOTIFICATIONS!

As push notifications have become a ubiquitous part of our culture, the action of looking at our smartphones became a habit performed publicly and privately. While the majority of push notifications aren’t necessarily essential, our body language has developed a non-verbal cue that communicates urgency.

GET (!)
YOUR (only)
HANDS (two)
TOGETHER (yep)

you can do everything you wish
wait for it while you work

you know you want it back, why like this?

ENGAGE! ENGAGE! ENGAGE!

...Find me when the lights go down / Signing in and signing out / Gods descend to take me home / And find me staring at my phone / I'm wondering where the hours went / As I'm losing consciousness / My sullen face is all aglow / Time spent looking at my phone

Andrew VanWyngarden, Ben Goldwasser & James Richardson, tslamp (Little Dark age), 2018

ITS OK TO BE
mad sometimes

slightly lean forward

no one is watching you

you are safe

FORWARD

This world has become “safer” and even gives us ‘cover’ to recede into it when feeling threatened, trying to impress or look unapproachable. This crutch is increasingly becoming harder to penetrate as onlookers have little chance of knowing what is happening in our personal world.

The ever-present tension of people wanting to be both connected and disconnected, pushing the phone away while longing for a new push.