On The Ground Looking Up

Internet Meme Movie Posters

Thanks to Lucien from Mechanism for the share.

Meme Movie Posters has created a gallery of snipes representing what it would look like if common Internet Memes were movies. Some of my favorites are below but you should check out the whole list.

Brand Mashup As Art

I came across these in my daily search for how Star Wars is taking over mass culture.

Artist Dale May uses star wares figurines and mashes them up with top brands to create unique works of art.The results are wonderful.

Chewbacca x Tory Burtch

Darth Vader x Chanel

And my favorite. LV3PO

When icons meet icons.

Pothole Gardening

An idea worthy of paying attention to and could be adapted by today's guerrilla marketer, The Pothole Gardener goes around London filling up those unsightly potholes with the lovliest of tiny gardens (I have been using the word 'lovely' way too much recenty). There is such detail in these and I am sure, once discovered that they bring a smile to people's faces. Another good idea I did not come up with. 

 

Order Room Service - Check, Steal A Banksy - Check

Interesting idea here and certainly one to generate interest among the art set. Art Series Hotels in Australia is offering guests the chance to steal one of two Banksy pieces, No Ball Games and Pulp Friction. The deal, if you can get away with the crime, you get to keep the valuable art. Supposedly one has successfully been stolen while one still remails.

Clandestine collectors have used tactics ranging from re-wiring the internal security cameras so would be thieves couldn't be seen to scantily clad women distracting staff.

I wonder if Banksy would approve?

 

*Thanks Sasha for the hookup via Juxtapoz.

Random Images From My Desktop 29

Random images I have saved to my desktop over the last few weeks.

Peanuts x Abbey Road

Target Missed The Boat On This one

Talk about an experience that Target should have sponsored. Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama took an all white room and gave children colored dots to place wherever they want. The results as you can see are pretty extraordinary.

The Artist

The experience, entitled 'Obliteration Room' was designed for the Queensland Art Gallery's ‘APT 2002: Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’. So if you are in the neighborhood, check it out.

If You Happen To Be REALLY Depressed

Don't know the original source, but that will make anyone happy.

The Beatles In 8Bit

Christmas is almost here.

The Beatles in pixels.

Love these.

More (and the ability to buy) here.

24 Hours On Flickr

Just saw this on The Creators Project. Erik Kessels (of KellelsKramer fame) created this installation. 24 hours in the life of Flickr. It focuses on the explosion in digital photography and it's existence online. The installation represents all of the photos uploaded to Flickr during a 24 hour period, about a million of them. And that is just Flickr, imagine if we added all of them added to Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Picassa, etc.

We are creating a lot of content out there folks, maybe it is time to start making sure it is worth our digital attention.

More here.