[holden]

Taking a look at these doorbells now.

Hmm. While the photos themselves appear pretty clear and it's an interesting concept, i'm still skeptical. The following is nothing against Marianne Saether, Tomato, etc., just a personal observation...

It's a graphic design principle that, compiling a number of any random object looks good in bulk, as per the last BoJ, the jets photos on UWLive recently, Warhol's soupcans, etc. The compiling takes a bit of work, the curating of the best pictures, sure. But is it art? During grad school, i'd regularly walk through the college town past fraternity houses and bars on the way to the office on a saturday or sunday morning (lame, i know, but that's the "life" of a PhD candidate...always working or at least feeling guilty about not working), and i'd pass plenty a puddle of vomitus from the night before, usually with a plastic cup or bottle nearby. i often wondered, "What if i take photos of all of this purge, enlarge them, then exhibit them en masse?" Not a very tasteful idea, for sure, but i sometimes feel that, taken collectively, even a bunch of barf looks good when you've got a couple dozen examples of it. Patterns emerge, differences are seen. Maybe that's the point, the heightening importance of the commonplace?