2012-04-29
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photo 11:42:03
Sky images with Pantone-style colour labels on Flickr.
There’s more at the artist’s website.
2012-04-09
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photo 18:31:00
A selection of linkmachinego’s Flickr set, Evening Standard Headline Crisis, 2005-2010.
See also: the collection by year.
2012-03-28
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photo 02:14:00
Iterations of map widths from the development of the Watercolor Process of the new maps.stamen.com.
2012-03-27
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photo 18:24:07
Apple shop fronts and interiors, from CLOG: Apple (via).
(Regular readers will know I’m a sucker for grids and repetition.)
2012-03-26
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photos 07:09:00
Cyanotypes, by Christian Marclay (Flash):
The photograms in this exhibition are made with music cassette tapes he has physically disassembeled. In some, the plastic cases form austere grids.
The cyanotype process dates to the dawn of photography and was developed by the English scientist Sir John Herschel in 1842. Using a light-sensitive chemical mixture, these cyanotypes were created by placing objects directly onto the surface of paper coatd with the mixture. The resulting blue photograms reveal a silhouetted image that varies in darkness due to the opacity of the objects.
2012-03-19
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quote 22:15:05
“ The internet is still a pretty daunting place and most of us have this nagging feeling that we are bluffing, that we deep down have no idea what’s going on. It’s still a new technology and we don’t know what to expect in much the same way that our newly-literate ancestors didn’t know what to expect from the printed media or its future possibilities. Memes in this way can be seen as the internet equivalent of serialized novels. Memes are meant to be repetitive, archetypal and easily reproducible and remixable. New memes build on or reference this archive that we have accumulated over the years. Recognizing the patterns gives us a sense of belonging, that we belong to a growing community that feels comfortable sharing cat pictures with captions, even moving pictures, like GIFs. Or uploading talkies to YouTube. It’s a way of easing us into this new world. ”
Rocío Rodtjer: LOLcats and Victorian Serialized Novels.
[This is good.]
2012-02-15
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photo 02:37:00
A Google image search for all sizes of the image I just reposted. (Previously.)
