Book of Jam 5: Quanta

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Originally Posted by dubman

reminds me of the spikee video
another reminder that no one image is really insignificant, in fact it's probably the pursuit of "significant" images that misses the broad picture that so many small ones can put together

really enjoyed this one, even if the halftone is a little heavy on the eyes

Yeah, i can see the similarity to Spikee's quick, repeated pix of birds, crowns, babies, random shots.

i dunno about the insignificant adding up to a whole in this case. While i haven't poured over what the high concept is, at first glance, this appears to be disparate snapshots joined only by the halftone pixelation. i say this as having done the graphic design courses on way to art major (for what that's worth - not much since i'm employed in science not art these days )... the common treatment suggests collectivity. As the prelude says these are but a selection from hundreds of images, i have no doubt that they've been carefully collated. But this is a common graphic trick: repetition, even of unrelated things, when treated in similar manner, creates a sum suggestively much more than the parts. But individually and as a whole, this is less impressive to me than the previous Books of Jam. Take anyone's digital photo album and apply the same effect (mesotint, pointilist, halftone, swirl, whatever photoshop allows), and in succession, it'll look dang impressive at first blush, and with minimal narration or collation, there can be a neat, artful story to tell (sidenote: if i learned anything in art courses, it's the art of BS'ing!).