{"id":12354,"date":"2007-05-15T17:26:34","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T17:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/05\/apocalypse-memory-and-redemption.html"},"modified":"2007-05-15T17:26:34","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T17:26:34","slug":"apocalypse_memory_and_redemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/15\/apocalypse_memory_and_redemption\/","title":{"rendered":"Apocalypse, memory, and redemption"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>In <a href=\"http:\/\/themorningnews.org\/archives\/galleries\/dr_strangelove_dr_strangelove\/\">Dr. Strangelove Dr. Strangelove<\/a>, Canadian Kristan Horton recreates shots from the film using everyday objects: &quot;Silverware become an airplane, plastic and coffee grounds become the sky.&quot; Fantastic. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/05\/15\/dr_strangelove_scene.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>In a slightly related vein, Edward Zwakman produces large-scale photographs by painstakingly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/edwin_zwakman_tales_from_the_grid_6064.asp\">reconstructing objects and landscapes<\/a> from memory. A bit more info is in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.q-arts.co.uk\/parseTemplate.asp?id=216\">Tales from the Grid<\/a>, but I&#8217;d like to know more.<\/li>\n<li>Chris Jordan attempts to make staggering numbers comprehensible in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisjordan.com\/current_set2.php?id=7\">Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait<\/a>.&#160; By assembling thousands of photographs into large, intricately detailed prints, he depicts &quot;a slow-motion apocalypse in progress.&quot;&#160; See also the fascinating images of his earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisjordan.com\/current_set.php?arch_id=1\">Intolerable Beauty<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/theonlinephotographer.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/chris-jordan.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Artist Amanda Vandermeer and photographer Paul O\u2019Grady have collaborated to create <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brendanseaton.com\/Blog.aspx\">Sustainable Jewellery<\/a>, using flora &amp; fauna to decorate the human form.&#160; (Weirdly, there&#8217;s no permalink on the blog where the images appear, so you&#8217;ll need to scroll down to the relevant section.)&#160; It might be interesting to see this work juxtaposed with Chrisopher Conte&#8217;s sculptures, such as this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microbotic.org\/arm.htm\">biomech arm<\/a> or this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microbotic.org\/spider2.htm\">stainless steel spider<\/a>. \n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Dr. Strangelove Dr. Strangelove, Canadian Kristan Horton recreates shots from the film using everyday objects: &quot;Silverware become an airplane, plastic and coffee grounds become the sky.&quot; Fantastic. [Via] In a slightly related vein, Edward Zwakman produces large-scale photographs by painstakingly reconstructing objects and landscapes from memory. A bit more info is in his Tales [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}