Posts tagged Pictures of Stuff
Found objects collected on Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, New York. From the series of photographs “Found in Nature” by Barry Rosenthal.
We’ve seen many a photo collage in our day, but New York artist Michael Mapes‘ Specimen Boxes are an entirely different creature. To create these unique photo compartments, he dissects various photos of his subjects into many corresponding bits and then mounts those bits on or in different materials — much like what you see in insect collection boxes. Sometimes it’s vials, sometimes it’s push pins, and sometimes it’s gel caps, but it always turns out looking really interesting.
(via Specimen Box Picture Collages Created with Photo Fragments)
@MollyBlock points out the TSA Blog’s weekly roundup of confiscated items.
Miscellaneous Prohibited Items - In addition to all of the other prohibited items we find weekly, our Officers also found firearm components, realistic replica firearms, stun guns, brass knuckles, pepper spray, quite the assortment of knives, ammunition, and batons.
(via The TSA Blog: TSA Week in Review: Plastic Dagger Found With Body Scanner)
A stomach full of plastics
Short Circuit is a photo-media investigation into our electrical consumption and the ‘trash and treasure’ culture of the West…more
Over the course of 10 months, Brooklyn-based artist Willis Elkins collected nearly 2000 cigarette lighters from the shorelines of New York City, documented, photographed and mapped them.
A nicely provocative take on the whole “neatly organized stuff” meme.
More at Got a light? « everydaytrash.
(via Breach | i like this art)
via tarawaslike: 32flavors-:
Tha Business is a concept design by Hoang and Anh Nguyen that rethinks a number of antipersonnel objects (pepper spray, knives, brass knuckles) as stylish, wallet-sized gizmos. Also includes a whistle.
Business self-defense kit: stylish, wallet-sized concealed weapons - Boing Boing
For her project titled “Scavenger: Adventures in Treasure Hunting”, photographer Jenny Riffle has been following a modern day treasure hunter called Riley out on his hunts and photographing the objects he collects.
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