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Venus of Google - Matthew Plummer-Fernandez
“The Venus of Google was ‘found’ via a Google search-by-image, googling a photograph taken of an object I had been handed over in a game of exquisite corpse. The Google search returned visually similar results, one of these being an image of a woman modelling a body-wrap garment. I then used a similar algorithmic image-comparison technique to drive the automated design of a 3D printable object. The ‘Hill-Climbing’ algorithm starts with a plain box shape and tries thousands of random transformations and comparisons between the shape and the image, eventually mutating towards a form resembling the found image in both shape and colour.”
Venus of Google, 2013
From the Long Tail Multiplier Series/ Algorithm
27.2 x 14.9 x 8.0 cm
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4D Type, 2011 by Lo Siento from Spain
“4D Typography is the result of intersectioning, in an orthogonal way in space, two extrusions of the same character, which allows the spectator to read it from, minimum, two different positions in space.
An observer searching to enjoy a particular architecture, is forced to move around and through it. The change in perspective generates new spaces in which light acts in different ways. In this case, it is the typography who makes the effort of abandoning its two dimensions to approach the architectural sense. It does not resign with a third dimension; a fourth one is necessary to complete the reading possibilities. By hanging the typography, the reader is allowed to surround the characters in order to understand all their shapes.”
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Toys, guns and fireworks.
Toys, guns and fireworks.
And now another one is done. Toys, guns and fireworks is a short, little photo book — nine images in all. It’s a document of the toys I grew up with at my family’s cottage in northern Michigan (“up north”). Cap guns, wind-up toys, water rocket launchers, Mr. Peanut and Black Cat fireworks all make an appearance.You can pick up your own copy for $7 at MagCloud.com.
Accidental
I didn’t intend to make this book. Or rather, I’d meant to do something with these photos over two years ago, when I first took them. I was going to make a big poster and screen print it at work. My intentions weren’t firm enough and I dropped about that project entirely.Data sat on hard drives, as it likes to do.
This past week I’ve been busy editing another, larger book — a project from my recent road trip. It’s been frustrating, slow work. Initially, I’d hoped that project would shape up something like one of Ed Ruscha’s photo books — an iconic work of a series of images around a single concept. It might not have the punch of Various Small Fires, but it would be in that vein.
Alas, those have photos resisted all my efforts, and that project is turning into something quite different. Coming soon.
In the frustration of making that book is when I remembered these images from my archive. Photos of found items from my family’s cottage, fragments from my past (and my Dad’s, and his brother’s and sister’s). They would help make the book I’d been trying to make. Something simple, punchy and fun.
Keep shipping
The lesson learned from all this is simple — keep shipping.I was blocked on a bigger project and getting nowhere. So I took a break, found these images, and in an hour or so, had a book out to print. It was a wonderful accident — putting it together gave me at least a dozen other project ideas I’m working on now. It’s also my favorite book I’ve made so far.
It’s easy to get stuck in the trap that you havet to finish this thing in front of you, or that you have to wait until it’s perfectly cooked to come out. Often it’s the quick, scrappy thing you didn’t expect to be anything special that ends up being your best work, the most fun, and the thing that pushes everything else along.
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