Happy Birthday, James Turrell.
Penguin Books new(ish) cover for Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
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)
Photo from In On the Killtaker, taken by Jem Cohen
“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))
On art in 2013:
George Bush painting, Tilda Swinton sleeping in a box. Come on people.
— Caryn Coleman (@caryn_coleman) March 27, 2013
