This is one of the drive by shootings from India.

Martha, this one is for you...
I found this book, Drive By Shooting, on the website of Harry N. Abrams, the publisher of artifacts of flight. The artist, Max Forsythe, has also published these images on his website, which is worth checking out.

Found this book, artifacts of flight, while rooting around the AIGA Archive. The book highlights selections from the Smithsonian Air & Space collection. I am so getting this book for $2.25 from a seller at amazon.

This is my semi-successful attempt at a screen-capture of the AIGA Design Archives on the web (because I need images on this blog to go with the links...hehe).

I like the way these renderings by the Office of Mobile Design are assembled. Check out the website for some better images. Sorry for the size and quality of these images...I will scan some at a better quality if I get the chance from the book Strangely Familiar: Design and Everyday Life, which accompanied an exhibition of the same title at the Walker Art Center.

Here are a couple stills from the video for 'Star Guitar' by the Chemical Brothers, which was directed by Michel Gondry. I couldn't help but be drawn back to this video (one of my favorites) after seeing Millions, and it also sort of keeps this week's idea rolling...

I know P posted an image from Millions, but the movie really impressed me with the composited/montaged feel to a lot of the imagery. This style was also apparent in Danny Boyle's previous movie, 28 Days Later (though I did not like 28 days as much).

This is an image from a series of photos by Susan Unterberg, called DoubleTakes. In the show P and I saw last summer at the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati (building by Zaha), the photos were framed so that it looked like two separate photos side-by-side.

Found this at a blog i like a lot...there was also a piece about it on NPR not too long ago.

One more image dealing with flocking and accumulation...

These containers create a similar sort of field.

Continuing a line of thought from before...
Above is an image describing a project by Natalie Jeremijenko -

When you enter the lot, a colorimeter scans the color of your car and issues a parking ticket assigning your space. Cars are arranged according to color, transforming the mundane act of parking the car into a large public spectacle. The parking lot, a site that might be considered culturally bereft, becomes a display of public participation. It is a project that makes tangible the extent of vehicular obedience.

two good websites to try:
Yale Alumni Magazine article about Jeremijenko titled An Engineer for the Avant-Garde
Walker Art Center piece titled Database Politics and Social Simulations, also about Jeremijenko, which includes the italicized text above.

Haven't had a chance to fully explore this page o' links (an annotated list of art and technology references that was compiled by researcher Jennifer Laughlin) at amodal.net, but it seems like something to check out on a rainy day. At first glance, I recommend The Alphabet Synthesis Machine.

OK, here are links to more information about the images posted this past week...
The first image is of a Jenny Holzer piece in which she projected recently declassified documents onto the facade of the Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria. (The site I have linked to, The National Security Archive at George Washington University is an interesting place to root around.)
The second image is of Blinkenlights in Berlin...an old personal favorite.

I know this is so 1999, but I still get a kick out of it....

P and I recently took part in the Van Alen Institute's Parachute Pavilion competition. This is one of a few source images we used on our board - this one illustrating the idea of superimposition.

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i am joining mmmmmm and paqi at the blogspot.....