Spam plants.
July 29, 2006 7:48 PM Subscribe
Spam plants Plant-like artwork generated from text data in Spam. There's also spam architecture and whatever this is.
Really beautiful stuff. It's nice to see digital waste being recycled into art.
posted by heylight at 11:19 PM on July 29, 2006
posted by heylight at 11:19 PM on July 29, 2006
Yes, beautiful stuff.
Reminds me of this.
(Full disclosure: he's a friend of mine.)
posted by zoinks at 11:48 PM on July 29, 2006
Reminds me of this.
(Full disclosure: he's a friend of mine.)
posted by zoinks at 11:48 PM on July 29, 2006
I don't understand how it works, but these are really pretty, esp. the architecture one.
posted by BoringPostcards at 11:50 PM on July 29, 2006
posted by BoringPostcards at 11:50 PM on July 29, 2006
Wow, that's awesome. Completely over my head, but still awesome.
posted by bob sarabia at 1:46 AM on July 30, 2006
posted by bob sarabia at 1:46 AM on July 30, 2006
Yeah, kinda cool looking, but they don't really have any connection to spam. Its impossible to know whether plants generated from, say, the distribution of raindrops on a grid would look distinguishable from these.
posted by gsteff at 4:11 AM on July 30, 2006
posted by gsteff at 4:11 AM on July 30, 2006
See also the Swedish artist Gunilla Klingberg. She makes large, kaleidoscopic, vaguely seventies-like patterns, sometimes filling an entire room. When you look closely, you see that they're all made of dirty little corporate logos.
posted by Termite at 4:37 AM on July 30, 2006 [2 favorites]
posted by Termite at 4:37 AM on July 30, 2006 [2 favorites]
Zoinks: Todd Arsenault's paintings reminds me of Cornelia Parker's Cold dark matter: an exploded view.
posted by Termite at 4:49 AM on July 30, 2006
posted by Termite at 4:49 AM on July 30, 2006
Too bad the spam art is untitled. I woul love to know haw an enlarged penis looks or a nigerian scam.
posted by donfactor at 5:14 AM on July 30, 2006
posted by donfactor at 5:14 AM on July 30, 2006
woul love to know haw an enlarged penis looks
Sigh. Me too.
posted by magpie68 at 10:19 AM on July 30, 2006 [1 favorite]
Sigh. Me too.
posted by magpie68 at 10:19 AM on July 30, 2006 [1 favorite]
Ooooooh yeah, thanks, Termite. Way cool. I am sending Todd the links to that and the original post - sure to enjoy. And Gunilla Klingberg reminds me a bit of this. Mainly just the cubes and detail once you take a closer look.
(Oh, and HA! Good luck, magpie!)
posted by zoinks at 11:16 AM on July 30, 2006
(Oh, and HA! Good luck, magpie!)
posted by zoinks at 11:16 AM on July 30, 2006
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