Saturday, September 15, 2007

Week 3 : Exercise 1 : Thing 1 - Flickr

Whew.

Flickr has soooo much. It's hard to just grab an image, because there are so many - so I thought I'd try random images through the Interestingness feature. This has a calendar like setup which has a log of photos that the powers that be think are ... interesting. Photos represent every day, which act as a portal into that photographer's group of photos. Unfortunately I didn't catch the blogging bug off any of the pics I saw on there...

Instead, I thought I'd have a look for some pics that I have seen before on Flickr: Abstract colour-fields and shapes on walls as a result of demolition. To find them, I played around with searches around demolition and wall.
I like the colour fields created by the different rooms and the symmetry of floors and stairs - kind of a document of these buildings and the lives that occupied them - reminds me of Rachel Whiteread's House sculpture, which won the Turner Prize and the K Foundation Award in 1993 for being the best and worst in British art that year.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Last photo reminds me of a bach in the coromandel...wonder if the people in this photo were into DIY too.