More pointless pictures

The random picture machine

Sascha Pohflepp has a nice project called blinks and buttons, for which he has made a 'blind camera' which takes other people's photos for you. The camera has no lens - instead, it records the time you press the button, and uploads (eventually) a photo somone else posted at that time. So, by way of decoration, here is a couple of random pictures I am contributing to the cause...

Uh oh

More insights from indexed.

More book ingenuity...

Jill Silvia removes, cell by cell, all the information from old ledgers and account books.

Town, Snow, Road

Barsamian's persistence of vision

Gregory Barsamian makes these sinister kinetic sculptures which, with a dark room and strobe lighting, do monstrous things. There are videos on his website here.

Found

Found magazine is something I've just found. It features a collection of random found things. The story of how this started is here and is wonderful.

Animal polaroids

More here.

You are here

There is something really beautiful about a map which magically knows where you are. Especially when you are not there. More pictures here.

Random nice picture 7

By Corey Arnold. From the beautiful human animals/animal humans series.

Random nice picture 6

Planes landing LAX runway by Kevin Cooley.

Random nice picture 5

Michael Andrews, Melanie and Me Swimming (1979).

Random nice picture 4

By Angus Boulton (of the gymnasia post below).

Random nice picture 3: Girl in spectacles

By Luke Stephenson.

Random nice picture 2: Dog chasing my car in the desert

Amazing amazing. By John Divola (via Your Daily Awesome). See the full series here (2000s, dogs chasing car).

Random nice picture week...

Today's by Luigi Ghirri

Amazing photo sculptures

By Korean artist Gwon Osang.

Trophy

Deer's head By Rachel Denny. I love the zipper. I wish there was one with knitted antlers.

Neon Graveyard Las Vegas

Where old signs get put out to pasture. More pictures from Flickr.

Floor Plans!

Mark Bennett makes floorplans of houses in films. I love them.


(Clockwise from top left: Home of Guy and Rosemary Woodhouse (Rosemary's Baby); Home of George and Martha (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf); Home of Norman Bates (Psycho); Home of Jack Horner (Boogie Nights). More at Conner Contemporary Art.

Braille Graffiti

Isn't it beautiful? By 'The Blind'. Via Wooster Collective. And below a helpful key. I never knew it started out as night writing. I love that.

More ingenious things you can do with books

Noriko Ambe does these extraordinary topographical book dissections.

Singing, Dancing, Stealing

A beautiful poster forThe Stranger by Sleep Op+.

Things made out of other things

Much as I am not a fan of the whole aestheticising reuse business, these are undeniably lovely things...

The top two are by Stuart Haygarthland, the first made of objects washed up on bits of the Kent coastline, and the second made from used party poppers. The third one is made from old shuttlecocks found at Deptford Market, by Gitta Gschwendtner.

Someone will no doubt throw out a slightly less lovely lampshade to buy one of these. And someone else will have to work out what to make out of old lampshades.

More photostudio

An amazing collection of paper moon portrait shots here. (Via drawn)