The images of 9 0 0 0

September 4, 2009 11:16 AM

The images of 9 0 0 0
posted by boo_radley (54 comments total)

Push the space bar and advance one image at a time if you like.
posted by JBennett at 11:22 AM on September 4, 2009

over 9000
posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey at 11:24 AM on September 4, 2009 [3 favorites]

please attend to the tags, mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey
posted by boo_radley at 11:25 AM on September 4, 2009

Awesome, thanks for posting this.
posted by jquinby at 11:25 AM on September 4, 2009

Very nice.
posted by jeffamaphone at 11:25 AM on September 4, 2009

Oh man the pong thing that says Miss You is heartbreaking.
posted by edbles at 11:28 AM on September 4, 2009 [1 favorite]

I like this.
posted by OmieWise at 11:35 AM on September 4, 2009

Those are so cool.
posted by scrutiny at 11:36 AM on September 4, 2009

One hundreds pounds of cool.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 11:37 AM on September 4, 2009

Awesome. Gonna take days to go through it all. Good wallpaper fodder in there too.
posted by sciurus at 11:40 AM on September 4, 2009

Not sure if the artist used that exact same "old paer" texture enough times.
posted by Sys Rq at 11:40 AM on September 4, 2009

"old paper"
posted by Sys Rq at 11:40 AM on September 4, 2009

Why does the same texture thing annoy you?
posted by edbles at 11:44 AM on September 4, 2009

I love this, and I wish I had payed more attention in Spanish class.
posted by hanoixan at 11:46 AM on September 4, 2009

Very trippy, some of these. Very cool.

For reasons I cannot articulate, I think this is my favorite.
posted by Ladybug Parade at 11:53 AM on September 4, 2009

Juts keep hitting the spacebar. This is true, unadulterated brilliance. That is all.
posted by Seekerofsplendor at 11:58 AM on September 4, 2009

I liked the part where Spock reminded us that "V is for vagina."
posted by punkfloyd at 12:06 PM on September 4, 2009

"I am what I am... Someone has to be"... even without the art, some of the words are brilliant.
posted by wendell at 12:07 PM on September 4, 2009

Made of pure awesome. Thanks boo_radley!
posted by ooga_booga at 12:19 PM on September 4, 2009

Inspiring and wonderful.
posted by maxwelton at 12:28 PM on September 4, 2009

I got sold on this one.
posted by boo_radley at 12:31 PM on September 4, 2009

George Carlin should be credited here.
posted by punkfloyd at 12:32 PM on September 4, 2009

But see, there is joy and revelry, slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine! "Let us eat and drink," you say, "for tomorrow we die!" - Isaiah 22:13

This graphic re-use of the image I've seen floating 'round the made me smile (not that this was the only one that made me happy).
posted by filthy light thief at 12:32 PM on September 4, 2009

punkfloyd, I think there is a G.C. credit on that image at the bottom.
posted by boo_radley at 12:33 PM on September 4, 2009

Stripped to the (flikr) bones, or cheating yourself of the fantastic interface. Also: with more text.
posted by filthy light thief at 12:35 PM on September 4, 2009

I have nil clue what it is but I like it very much.....thanks.
posted by therubettes at 12:39 PM on September 4, 2009

I wanted to play this, but I could get my eyelids taped quite right.
posted by Durn Bronzefist at 12:58 PM on September 4, 2009

The image browser in their website gallery is fantastic!
posted by The Light Fantastic at 1:16 PM on September 4, 2009 [1 favorite]

These are good.
posted by The Whelk at 1:43 PM on September 4, 2009

The work is compelling, would love if the FPP came with a little background on the artist.
posted by BillBishop at 2:13 PM on September 4, 2009

This one is very cool too. It xrefs the lyrics from the Violent Femmes' "Kiss Off", which starts: "I need someone, a person to talk to..."
posted by chavenet at 2:13 PM on September 4, 2009

These are fantastic, thanks for sharing them.
posted by flatluigi at 2:20 PM on September 4, 2009

Why does the same texture thing annoy you?

Annoy, no; bore, yes. Monotony tends to have that effect on me.
posted by Sys Rq at 2:23 PM on September 4, 2009

Every now and then you run across someone that really understands how to mash culture and design in such a way as to give you goosebumps or 'how come i never thought of that' moments. I find that the best are almost always low-tech or, at least, achievable with the technology i've got readily available and invariably inspire me (if only for a while) to go out and try to do something as clever.

This is one of those people.
posted by jadayne at 2:23 PM on September 4, 2009 [2 favorites]

Sys Rq: "Annoy, no; bore, yes. Monotony tends to have that effect on me."
And yet, your user image. I'm not picking on you, it's just incongruous to me.
posted by boo_radley at 2:40 PM on September 4, 2009

Wow. There's cute and then there's brilliant. There's both here.
posted by Durn Bronzefist at 3:03 PM on September 4, 2009

And yet, your user image.

My user image is one image shown once on one page. Not seeing the parallel.

While I fully appreciate what's going on on top of the old paper texture here (really! neat!), the fact that the artist has lazily chucked in that same layer (to his credit, he seems to be alternating two or three) into all the images ruins the illusion for me, and along with it goes a lot of the magic.

That I've seen that old paper texture in a zillion other projects in the last couple years doesn't help matters.
posted by Sys Rq at 3:13 PM on September 4, 2009

The purple field is just so monotonous (it was a failed pun).

Out of curiousity, do you teach or practice graphic design that you've seen it so frequently?
posted by boo_radley at 3:27 PM on September 4, 2009

"people hate me" in comic sans.

Lovely.
posted by Devils Rancher at 3:27 PM on September 4, 2009

Out of curiousity, do you teach or practice graphic design that you've seen it so frequently?

Practice, yes.

And, I mean, don't get me wrong: The aesthetic effect pleases me. (Even if I am a bit sick of it at this point.) It's just, you know, I see one stray black pixel repeated in a few images and I'm all like, stop bein so lazy you big lazy. At least move the shit around a little, y'know?

Have I sufficiently justified my personal opinion yet?
posted by Sys Rq at 3:49 PM on September 4, 2009

Sys Rq, I would like to give you a hug. Would that be ok? For me to give you a hug?
posted by boo_radley at 3:54 PM on September 4, 2009

I've been following 9 0 0 0 for a little while on Flickr. I should hate this artist: 9 0 0 0 makes so many obvious and tired pop culture references. But what he/she actually turns out is often hilarious, insightful, and occasionally brilliant. It completely transcends the raw material.
posted by rottytooth at 3:56 PM on September 4, 2009

My Fair Lady, IN THE FUTURE.
posted by The Devil Tesla at 4:01 PM on September 4, 2009

Sys Rq: Have I sufficiently justified my personal opinion yet?

Nope. Keep going.
:)
posted by Greg_Ace at 4:13 PM on September 4, 2009

It is excellent.
posted by Meatbomb at 4:45 PM on September 4, 2009

This is pretty amazing work, I love it.
posted by empath at 6:12 PM on September 4, 2009

edbles: "Oh man the pong thing that says Miss You is heartbreaking."

The video game version!
posted by Rhaomi at 7:07 PM on September 4, 2009

The mood of many of the images reminded me of a site I really enjoyed back in the late 90s, which seems to still be doing its schizoanalytic thing pretty well.
posted by mistersquid at 8:13 PM on September 4, 2009 [1 favorite]

omg, twiggy! ...why isn't that wallpaper, and why isn't that wallpaper on my walls?
posted by sexyrobot at 12:12 AM on September 5, 2009

Hey sorry Sys Req I was just trying to figure out if it was a super lazy trick 9 0 0 0 was employing that was delighting my uninformed perception of the stuff, or if it was the old paper aesthetic at all that you were bored by. And you have answered that question fully so thanks with putting up with the minor flame-yness. Now I know that if I want to steal his thunder. I can.
posted by edbles at 6:31 AM on September 5, 2009

My fav - translates to "It's not gentlemanly ... Ejaculating unexpectedly in the eye of a lady"
posted by ATXile at 7:31 PM on September 5, 2009

Y'all need to calm the fuck down, here.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 5:06 PM on September 7, 2009

Some are good pictures but they shouldn't load at once .1 - 2 - 3

Chicks with Hitler is nice
posted by skillipedia at 7:00 PM on September 7, 2009

I keep coming back to this one.
posted by Dolores Haze at 12:03 AM on September 13, 2009