"Critics might agree when the day comes that their car is towed or ticketed, or when they miss a ccritical turn to a hospital, or fail to stop and run into traffic, all to further some lame-brains resume."
these are all done on no parking signs. no stop signs or other critical traffic signs were defaced, and trust me, no one's car is going to get towed. stop blowing the slight inconvenience of this act out of proportion, its boring me to death. and if you could let me know how doing this could go on a resume, please enlighten us.
"Single viewpoint/vantage, f(art)works -staged for the photograph and/or to position the ‘audience’ in a set place, at a set time."
so what? arent we separated enough from our physical environments by the simulacra of mass media? Like anything else, these images couldnt resist been absorbed by it, but they only did months after the stickers themselves were weathered and stripped from the signs. I like that the real audience was extremely limited... these documentations are just leftovers.
"Still looks photoshopped to me. It would be more socially responsible if it were a fake picture. It would be easy to photoshop a “peeling†edge, as well... All in all, an unusual idea, but kind of limited in scope. He should have made a transparent plexiglass sign with the same info as the original sign, and then replaced it. That way, it would work from a lot wider angle."
Give me a break... are you really so at home with simulations that doing this in photoshop would have the same effect? And where is the social responsibility with your suggestion of changing the sign with plexiglass... it seems similarly destructive, without the magic.
An important part of this piece is about a kind of silent interconnection in our physical space. That someone would have to stand exactly where the photographer stood to match the image up is amazing to me. If only one person took the time to do that I think the piece is a success... the internet is only good for people to anonymously talk shit and for people like me to get defensive about it.
I'm not even going to respond to whoever compared this to satanic graffiti. That was a pretty funny link though...
these are all done on no parking signs. no stop signs or other critical traffic signs were defaced, and trust me, no one's car is going to get towed. stop blowing the slight inconvenience of this act out of proportion, its boring me to death. and if you could let me know how doing this could go on a resume, please enlighten us.
"Single viewpoint/vantage, f(art)works -staged for the photograph and/or to position the ‘audience’ in a set place, at a set time."
so what? arent we separated enough from our physical environments by the simulacra of mass media? Like anything else, these images couldnt resist been absorbed by it, but they only did months after the stickers themselves were weathered and stripped from the signs. I like that the real audience was extremely limited... these documentations are just leftovers.
"Still looks photoshopped to me.
It would be more socially responsible if it were a fake picture.
It would be easy to photoshop a “peeling†edge, as well... All in all, an unusual idea, but kind of limited in scope. He should have made a transparent plexiglass sign with the same info as the original sign, and then replaced it. That way, it would work from a lot wider angle."
Give me a break... are you really so at home with simulations that doing this in photoshop would have the same effect? And where is the social responsibility with your suggestion of changing the sign with plexiglass... it seems similarly destructive, without the magic.
An important part of this piece is about a kind of silent interconnection in our physical space. That someone would have to stand exactly where the photographer stood to match the image up is amazing to me. If only one person took the time to do that I think the piece is a success... the internet is only good for people to anonymously talk shit and for people like me to get defensive about it.
I'm not even going to respond to whoever compared this to satanic graffiti. That was a pretty funny link though...