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ass loaded, originally uploaded by monkeyprime.

# 4 in my ongoing series of defaced NYC advertising…

Surrealism is back.

From Kottke:

Wonderful timelapse photos by Alexey Titarenko of “shadow” people in St. Petersburg just after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

These photos are amazing. Like seeing humanity as a single organism, or as a natural phenomenon rather than a collection of individuals. I love the way we flow up and around obstacles. Beautiful.

This looks like SOOO much fun.

I think this is really clever… over at Pixeloo they are showing us what cartoon and video game characters would look like if they were real (Jessica Rabbit is my personal favorite… hubba hubba… in a creepyish kinda way)

Small Media XL recently participated in the Obama in 30 seconds campaign from Moveon.org. Here is our entry:

Watch it, and then head over to the site to voice your opinion and vote!

A great graphic from swissmiss :

A beautiful piece of public interactive art for sure:
(From Shape and Color)

Through a matrix of perforations, sunshine gets converted through the dome into lines of poetry underneath. For the text, Song chose classical Korean poems called “Sijos” and translated them into English. It takes about 8 hours to see the entire poem, with each line visible for about an hour. The design actually shifts poems based on the season (how they managed to get it to do that with only one set of holes in the top, I have no idea…). During the summer the poem focuses on a theme of “new life”, during the winter it turns to “reflection and the passing of time”. The time-lapse video showing the the delicacy of the words moving through the shadow of the dome is a must see.

But I have to say, I’m in love with the all the conceptual stuff that Jiyeon Song put into this piece. The project site is chock full of beautiful diagrams showing all the thinking that went into the project:

Sometimes the directions for how to do something can be just as beautiful as the actual thing itself… well, to design geeks anyway

Dog Breath 2 , originally uploaded by monkeyprime.

# 3 in my ongoing series of defaced NYC advertising… and a revisit to an earlier defaced poster… I love the way the city exists in layers.

From the New York Times:

New data released Wednesday show online views of videos soared 66 percent in the U.S. in February from a year earlier, with TV networks grabbing just a pittance of those eyeballs.

According to comscore there were 10 billion (note the “B” there) views in February alone. And there are some who think that comscore’s data could be up to 100% off… Imagine a world with 20 billion video views? No wonder the media giants seem to be running scared… maybe they really are.

It’s a brave new world out there…

“O wonder!

How many goodly creatures videos are there here!

How beauteous mankind watching video online is!

O brave new world

That hath such people in’t!”

Wet Wet, originally uploaded by monkeyprime.

# 2 in my ongoing series of defaced NYC advertising…