net.art generator [via William Gibson] The art is created through a Google image search and some automatic image manipulation. For examples, go here.
posted on Dec 17, 2007 - View this thread

*Quite too Utterly Utter!* We all know about the Victoria & Albert Museum site, but did you know about the online V&A Access to Images? I didn't, and I've just spent a couple of happy hours poring over it. Type in any search term, and you are likely to get some interesting results. "Woodblock", for example, returns 16 pages, and "fairytale" nets you three pages of interesting 19th century marionettes. Here's somthing amusing to kick you off...
posted on Sep 3, 2004 - View this thread

Google House. A visual art page using google's image search. [Note - some parts of the house are NSFW. via BoingBoing]
posted on Nov 20, 2003 - View this thread

Oh my, talk about your imperfect applications of technology. I'm searching for an image of one of those "Hello my name is..." badges for a little joke, so I tried out Lycos' image search engine. After about five pages into the search for images containing "hello", a porn image would pop up on almost every search page. "Hello" is a generic term, so there's pictures of babies and kids right next to some gnarly stuff. Here's an example of a kid and a hello kitty image juxtaposed between some interesting images. Here's another: doll, doll, people screwing each other's brains out, hello kitty mouse....
posted on Mar 6, 2000 - View this thread