Trainspotting Art / Design
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- jonturi
the term trainspotting has been used in music circles for the obsession of trying to spot the song being played or the samples within it...
over the years as i learn more about Art & Design history i keep realizing that i've seen some of this stuff before in various placements sometimes remixed & reworked, often just re-used as is...
Its kind of like finding that original song that has been sampled in a recent tune. it gives you another dimension to it all.
here's only a few examples:
Josef Muller Brockmann (*of Grid systems fame) - 1950's Swiss Designer - Public Service Poster
Shephard Fairey - Obey With Caution version 2002-2006
Marcel Duchamp - Rotorelief 1926:
Flexitone - Rotorelief - US Picture Disc 12" 1995:
A.M. Cassandre - L'intransigent 1925 (art for a newpaper):
FOG - Electricity - Belgian Record Sleeve 1989:
Marcel Duchamp Etant Donne 1944-1966:
how it was made:
Clock DVA - Buried Dreams - German Record Sleeve 1989
- duckofrubber0
RIP
- lvl_130
i never knew the meaning behind trainspotting. that is interesting.
- neue75_bold0
there's referencing, there's sampling, then there's tracing...
- Exactlyukit
- I seem to be more forgiving when it's used on a record sleeve though...neue75_bold
- Mal0
and the old saying
talent borrows genius steals
- jonturi0
anyone else got some examples? either to call them out or just as interesting connection?
- neue75_bold0
“Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.”
W. H. Auden
- Khurram0
Also,
Imititation is the sincerist form of flattery
and
It takes one to know one.
- and, i know you are, but what am it?Khurram
- hahaneue75_bold
- i_monk0
I thought trainspotting was going and looking at trains.
- That's where the term originates from...skwiotsmith
- and nerdishly comparing collected engine numbers, hence the adoption of the term to other pusuits..mikotondria3