The Free Art and Technology (F.A.T.) Lab is an organization dedicated to enriching the public domain through the research and development of creative technologies and media. You may know them from such projects as
How to build a fake Google Street View car,
public domain donor stickers,
internet famous class, the
first rap video to end with a download source code link, or their numerous
firefox add-ons (such as
China Channel,
Tourettes Machine, or
Back to the future). FAT members have been hard at work standardizing various open source graffiti-related software packages, including
Graffiti Analysis,
Laser Tag,
Fat Tag Deluxe and
EyeWriter [previously] to be
GML (Graffiti Markup Language) compliant.
Fuck Google.
Fuck Twitter.
FuckFlickr.
Fuck SXSW.
Fuck 3D. FAT Lab is
Kanye shades for the open source movement.
posted by finite
on Mar 13, 2010 -
8 comments
The Ad Generator is a generative artwork that explores how advertising uses and manipulates language. What it actually does is that it randomizes words and structures from real advertising slogans and pairs them with related images from Flickr, generating fake ads on the fly.
posted by sveskemus
on Jan 24, 2007 -
53 comments
Penguin Books is an all too brief Flickr Photoset of Penguin Book cover designs from decades past. For those interested,
this book is highly recommended.
posted by jonson
on Oct 24, 2006 -
9 comments
Art teacher in hot water over topless photos - Meet
Tamara, a 29 year old art teacher at Austin High School (
notable alumni) in Austin, TX. She's in danger of losing her job with the Austin independent School District over inappropriate photos posted to her
Flickr account (may be NSFW). "I'm an artist and I'm going to participate in the arts," Hoover said. "If that's not something they want me to do then I want to be told that. I don't feel as if I was doing anything that was beyond expectations."
posted by nitsuj
on Jun 17, 2006 -
88 comments
I'm a huge fan of clever unintended uses for things, and
loloroy's favorites reuses a page/interface I've seen hundreds of times before in a cute way. It may take a second to figure out, but should be worth it [via
tmn].
posted by mathowie
on May 24, 2006 -
50 comments
Self-portrait: A portrait an artist makes using himself or herself as its subject, typically drawn or painted from a reflection in a mirror.
There are many
famous painted self portraits, but now that everyone has a digital camera, more and more photographic self portaits are popping up
everywhere. Whether you think of it as
vanity,
narcissism,
self-invovlment, or just art, it is hard to deny that there are a lot of
interesting and
well-composed shots out there. Sure, there are plenty of
arm-
length camera angles, but there is also work being done with
black and white images,
hands and
feet, and,
of course,
eyes.
Even photoshop is used
sometimes. People are still
speculating on what exactly all these pictures mean, but I think it is clear that from
totally innocent to
intensely personal to
NSFW, self portraits are here to stay.
posted by nuclear_soup
on Mar 20, 2006 -
14 comments
Playing Flickr is a public space installation by Mediamatic on the 11th floor of the PostCS building in Amsterdam. Diners in Restaurant 11 can use their mobile phones to submit a keyword of their choice, which will later appear on the surrounding screens with corresponding Flickr photographs tagged with that word or words.
posted by fandango_matt
on Sep 23, 2005 -
7 comments
