Fill/Stroke.com
Normally when people link me to things relating to Google Maps they have to do with naked people or some embarrassing moment forever captured on the internet.
However this link is a great find, I am impressed by Rhett. I can’t imagine how long it took him to find what he wanted. It makes me think of the days when we would spend hours looking through magazines with an 8cm by 8 cm square template looking for line, shape and typographic forms for Andy Weed’s Visual Communication III class.
Over the course of several months, beginning of October 2008 to April 2009, Rhett Dashwood spent some time between projects searching Google Maps hoping to discover land formations or buildings resembling letter forms. The picture above is the result of his findings limited within the state of Victoria, Australia. Amazing.
Check out the sources of his images here.
1 comment. Posted by adria in picture, typography on 22 April 2009.
I find these upside down faces to be disturbing and incredible at the same time. See the rest.
2 comments. Posted by tanner in art, experimentation, picture on 17 February 2009.
Via boston.com
The recent “acqua alta” (high water) in Venice, Italy reached a depth of 1.56 meters (5 ft, 1 in.) on Monday – the deepest flood in 22 years, and the fourth highest flood level in recent history, claimed Venice’s Tide Center. The water began to subside on Tuesday, while residents and tourists made their way through the city, hip-waders or not – one man even took the opportunity to ride his wakeboard through Piazza San Marco (until police stepped in). Although this flood was severe enough for the mayor to ask tourists to temporarily stay home, Venetian floods are fairly routine, several occurring every year, and residents usually take it all in stride.
Sorry for the somewhat off topic post; I just find the idea of people seemingly ignoring the flood incredible and I find these photos quite intriguing.
No comments. Posted by tanner in picture on 5 December 2008.
Behind the scenes studio visit with FAILE
Last week Mark posted about FAILE’s upcoming show “lost in glimmering shadows” at Lazarides Gallery in London. Manuel Bello from FECAL FACE DOT COM was reportedly lucky enough to be blindfolded and led to FAILE’s undisclosed studio locations.
The dewds from FAILE have been up to their old tricks again and added a big-ass bag of new ones. I have been pretty fixated on these guys work for some years now and every time I feel like they can’t impress me any more, they do. I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to swing by their undisclosed studio locations and pretty much get the run of the place while they dialed in the last minute details of their London schooling.
More pics following the jump.
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No comments. Posted by tanner in exhibition, picture, streetart on 19 November 2008.
I found this on reddit. (I’ve no idea who the original source is. It seems there’s a URL in the bottom right corner, but the resolution is too low to read it.) Click for a better view.
UPDATE No leads here, but someone else was curious: Guess the URL
