Found Art: Wedding Photos

My understanding of found art is that you find something, you see in it something significant, you call it yours, and BAM. That's it. I recently found a website called www.thestudiophotographers.com, and by lifting their photos from their website and placing them here, in their own individual contexts, I am allowing myself to join in on the century-old found art tradition as a "blogger."

Found art specimen #1: man buys woman at the local wholesale meat market. Woman looks grateful.

 Found art specimen #2: this one is a little less subtle :(

Found art specimen #3: this isn't found art. This is just a great photograph. However, that doesn't mean that I can't make something else out of it...

This isn't art. This is just internet memery! 

Found art specimen #4: The far away shot, aaaaaaand...

close-up!

That's all I've got for now.I think that the internet is literally made of potential "found art." The existence of every bit of it is testimony to the death grip it has on each and every person's relationships. For this reason, a great shot like the one of that kid up there reverts straight to memery as soon as someone comments on it, completely on account of the medium and its social peculiarities. Perhaps I'll have something to say about that later.

Next time, I'll be posting altered images of (mostly) women wearing wigs.

Appliances with faces

I wanted to make a blog where I wouldn't have to hold myself to any individual theme throughout. I just don't have the long-term attention span to focus on one thing for an extended period of time. That said, this blog will contain whatever I see fit to create.

Today, I decided to draw faces onto pictures of kitchen appliances. Here is old man oven, above. Make of it what you will. I was reminded afterward of this guy from The Brave Little Toaster.

But that wasn't the sort of image I was going for. The Brave Little Toaster presented appliances as characters who had every-day lives. Appliances in real life, however, lead very extraordinary lives. They're anti-stars. Instead of getting paid to talk about themselves, other people get pain to talk about them. They've got their own sort of glamor.

When stars hit the big time, get signed to a major label and all that, sometimes they start living like animals. When big-time appliances get sold, sometimes the same thing happens. This next picture contains graphic content.

Ewwwwwwwww!

What have I done?

As long as I'm on the topic of drawing human(?) faces onto appliances, how about we look at this here appliance's face that's been drawn onto this human. I wanted to say, "Why would anybody ever do this?" But I remember how many times I watched The Brave Little Toaster as a kid. This tattoo is so sick, I think I actually might not mind it if I woke up one morning in someplace unfamiliar with a hangover and this tattoo on my calf. Look at those colors, too!

Here's an appliance that's got a face on it already. I sort of want one once I have my own apartment. Or maybe instead I'll just get regular appliances and find my own ways of making them interesting. Shit, I don't know.