Happy Birthday, James Turrell

Penguin Books new(ish) cover for Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.

(via Creative Review - Orwell, covered up)

Alec Soth, photographer, Minneapolis: A few years ago Robert Frank said: 

There are too many images, too many cameras now. We’re all being watched. It gets sillier and sillier. As if all action is meaningful. Nothing is really all that special. It’s just life. If all moments are recorded, then nothing is beautiful and maybe photography isn’t an art any more. Maybe it never was.

What do you think about this?

William Eggleston: I don’t disagree with any part of that statement.

Chair 520” from Every Chair at the Visual Studies Workshop rendered in ASCII

(Created via spaceclaw.net

Non-Sign II“ by Lead Pencil Studio

Yet another case of “nothing” being far superior to “something.”

(via Ghost billboard erected on US-Canada border (Wired UK))

patrickt:

I recreated Piet Mondrian’s Trafalgar Square in Excel. Check out the original here.

On art in 2013: