Lukas Roth
I found myself liking the work of Lukas Roth (found via pishpot, where you can see more of his work). This German artist based in Cologne relies on intensive digital manipulation by using software to stitch hundreds of individual photos into a single extraordinarily large image. You can find out more about him by reading this PDF, which contains an English-language conversation with the artist, and which is posted on his site.
An update: More of Lukas Roth' work can be found on the website of Paul Kopeikin gallery located in Los Angeles, where the photographer has a show until December 22nd. (via Squint.)
Now Some Old News
I stumbled upon the web log of an author Richard Webster (who's written books such as A Brief History of Blasphemy, and Why Freud Was Wrong—no, I haven't read any of them). In a blog entry from half a year ago, he mentions that last year or so (even further back in time!) he was browsing through newspaper style guides for notes on capitalisation that he would adopt in his own book. In a style guide of the Guardian, he had found:
Mr, Ms, Mrs, Miss
use after first mention on news and comment (but not sport) pages, unless you are writing about an artist, author, journalist, musician, criminal or dead person; defendants keep their honorifics unless they are convicted.
Mr. Webster (heh) then goes on to say: I still haven't grasped what it is about artists, authors and journalists which seems to put them on a level with those who are dead. But it was the final phrase that I found most stark and most disturbing…
Toegristle studios, the author of the digital image mutation blog, has launched a new website for collaborative image creation—kollabor8. The idea behind kollabor8 is very simple. Johannes Grenzfurthner over at monochom writes: Register, download an image, add to it, then re-upload. [kollabor8 is] the online successor to mail art, exquisite corpse, or Rauschenberg's ROCI.
The image shown is from the kollabor8 website. The story was found via monochrom.
What do you put on the Internet?
Since the reason why people put personal information on the internet has always amused me as not really being that reason, I’m glad I came across this alternative explanation by monochrom: How does the Internet work?