Spam plants.

July 29, 2006 7:48 PM

Spam plants Plant-like artwork generated from text data in Spam. There's also spam architecture and whatever this is.
posted by delmoi (13 comments total)

Also, spoetry.
posted by waldo at 8:35 PM on July 29, 2006

s'marvellous
posted by Zinger at 8:38 PM on July 29, 2006

Really beautiful stuff. It's nice to see digital waste being recycled into art.
posted by heylight at 11:19 PM on July 29, 2006

Yes, beautiful stuff.
Reminds me of this.
(Full disclosure: he's a friend of mine.)
posted by zoinks at 11:48 PM on July 29, 2006

I don't understand how it works, but these are really pretty, esp. the architecture one.
posted by BoringPostcards at 11:50 PM on July 29, 2006

Wow, that's awesome. Completely over my head, but still awesome.
posted by bob sarabia at 1:46 AM on July 30, 2006

Yeah, kinda cool looking, but they don't really have any connection to spam. Its impossible to know whether plants generated from, say, the distribution of raindrops on a grid would look distinguishable from these.
posted by gsteff at 4:11 AM on July 30, 2006

See also the Swedish artist Gunilla Klingberg. She makes large, kaleidoscopic, vaguely seventies-like patterns, sometimes filling an entire room. When you look closely, you see that they're all made of dirty little corporate logos.


posted by Termite at 4:37 AM on July 30, 2006 [2 favorites]

Zoinks: Todd Arsenault's paintings reminds me of Cornelia Parker's Cold dark matter: an exploded view.
posted by Termite at 4:49 AM on July 30, 2006

Too bad the spam art is untitled. I woul love to know haw an enlarged penis looks or a nigerian scam.
posted by donfactor at 5:14 AM on July 30, 2006

woul love to know haw an enlarged penis looks
Sigh. Me too.
posted by magpie68 at 10:19 AM on July 30, 2006 [1 favorite]

Ooooooh yeah, thanks, Termite. Way cool. I am sending Todd the links to that and the original post - sure to enjoy. And Gunilla Klingberg reminds me a bit of this. Mainly just the cubes and detail once you take a closer look.
(Oh, and HA! Good luck, magpie!)
posted by zoinks at 11:16 AM on July 30, 2006

A microsound.org spam art project.
posted by Foosnark at 6:40 PM on July 30, 2006