Everything in its place... or ... acEeeghiiilnnprsttvy

August 28, 2011 12:52 PM

"The Art of Clean Up" is where OCD stands for Obsessive Compulsive Design. (More examples in the "bildergalerie" here) From neat-freak Ursus Wehrli who previously gave us "Tidying Up Art".
posted by oneswellfoop (17 comments total)

There's no I in Alphabet Soup.
posted by rlk at 1:03 PM on August 28, 2011

lovely... that is exactly how I do feel most of the time...
posted by TolkienLibrary at 1:06 PM on August 28, 2011

Oh lots of those H's are actually I's with JPEG artifacts. My bad!
posted by rlk at 1:07 PM on August 28, 2011

...and there's no U in MetaFilter. Get out.
posted by oneswellfoop at 1:07 PM on August 28, 2011

but on the other hand I also love the art of destruction, especially when it is about the liquidation of big symbols like nasdaq, Louis Vuitton, prada and Merrill Lynch.
posted by TolkienLibrary at 1:10 PM on August 28, 2011

especially when it is about the liquidation of big symbols like

Funny, I've seen that Marlboro one somewhere else, after a fashion.
posted by rhizome at 1:23 PM on August 28, 2011 [1 favorite]

"The Art of Clean Up" is where OCD stands for Obsessive Compulsive Design. (More examples in the "bildergalerie" here) From neat-freak Ursus Wehrli who previously gave us "Tidying Up Art".

ach, du liebe zeit! such a mess, here, let me FTFY.

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posted by dubold at 1:33 PM on August 28, 2011 [11 favorites]

The two shortest pine twigs are backwards.
posted by wanderingmind at 2:02 PM on August 28, 2011 [2 favorites]

this is more like THE ART OF STACKING
posted by liza at 2:24 PM on August 28, 2011

this is some sort of fourier transform...
posted by ennui.bz at 2:42 PM on August 28, 2011

This pleases me.
posted by desjardins at 2:47 PM on August 28, 2011

Doesn't anybody here want to give any of these perfect arrays a strong, chaos ensuing, kick? (Maybe not the aerial view with the people in it...)
posted by oneswellfoop at 2:57 PM on August 28, 2011 [1 favorite]

I like these a lot better than the ones he did tidying up other people's paintings (which seems like an equally fun idea, but in practice didn't look as cool as these do).
posted by straight at 6:14 PM on August 28, 2011

These are cool.

Some family friends were over the other day. Their youngest daughter is currently being evaluated for Asperger's. She was playing quietly by herself in the kitchen for a while. When they had gone, I noticed that our Minecraft fridge magnets were now neatly sorted by type and in a regular grid...
posted by Harald74 at 11:17 PM on August 28, 2011 [1 favorite]

Could have gone darkest to lightest with those pine needles. Still not perfect, I'm afraid.
posted by ageispolis at 11:55 PM on August 28, 2011 [1 favorite]

*gasps in pleasure*
posted by R.Stornoway at 1:55 AM on August 29, 2011

Sadly, from the main link: ...the publisher, KEIN & ABER AG, has asked that the photos be removed...
posted by safetyfork at 7:26 AM on August 29, 2011