New Aesthetic
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- pr20
Ever so often having spent an hour or so looking at fantastic things collected by this blog or another i keep on thinking that we are living in extraordinary times - never before were humans exposed to so much wonderment as it is now. This overabundance of quality stuff (yes, filtered through the lack of time necessary to make any meaning out of that wonderment) has to have a profound impact on our perception and psyche.
- pr20
Separating images from their original meaning and re-purposing those for ones own needs is definitely a sign of current times.
Take this fund-raising mood trailer we just made:
Half of the shots were direct re-makes of found photographs. But the re-purposing went further - we took actual images (with permission of the artists) and gave new meaning to the images by simply changing their context - all the sudden photographs of tree trunks stand for new planets being born... But it doesn't end there. Some meaningless time lapses and even someone's test of their new slider found its use transcending its original pedestrian origins. None of the above would be possible "back in the days."
- Horp0
"nothing more than the usual need to make something out of nothing... writers with nothing better to do trying to make sense of (codify, identify, what-have-you) a torrent of non-related material"
This is pretty much my job description.
- i_monk0
It's over now, everyone go back to what you were doing.
- utopian0
rambling on and on... all about nothing.
- sherm0
too much bla bla bla
make with the animated gifs already
- severian0
wankfest
- monospaced0
Immediately reminded me of these "statues" installed along Park Avenue in NYC. These are simple, nearly-FLAT, metal sheet statues with shades painted on them to trick the eye into thinking they're both very 3D and moving contrary to the light source. Even up close they're extremely convincing, right up until you touch them.
- i_monk0
The futurist thread reminded me of this thread.