This offers all sorts of creative possibilities: an online promo piece for British band the Editors places custom panoramic photographs of band members into various London locations via Google Street view, hacked for the occasion. I really wish I knew how to do that.
via Gavin Lucas, Creative Review
Rare Avis Wallpaper
2007 Archival digital prints on 24” wide rolls
Site specific installations from found snapshot images
Artist Cassandra Jones uses the familiar and expected banality of stock photography to create these incredible feasts of color and pattern, transforming the predictable images into luminous and startling better versions of themselves. Look at the very excellent post on Accidental Mysteries, which features an embedded video of an interview with the artist first published on BoingBoing, and also check out Jones’s own website. She asks, “Does there really need to be another picture of a sunset?” Like the surface of the sea, a sunset is always the same and always different. The one you saw is not the one snapped by someone else and available for download on iStock Photos, but it’s pretty close. What I find most haunting about Jones’s work is the notion that we never have to photograph another flamingo or tropical beach scene for posterity ever again. We can just observe and appreciate them in situ, instead, and if an image is needed…there are already plenty to choose from. Billions of pictures are uploaded to social networking and photo sites every day; maybe some categories have reached the point where they can be considered full. —Angela Riechers
via Accidental Mysteries
Rodney Allen Trice creates witty items for the home from discarded objects he finds at the curb and in dumpsters. Trice doesn’t see what he does as recycling, preferring to use the term refitting instead. His Brooklyn studio resembles a parking lot for things awaiting their next chance at a new life.
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