摸魚～ Fumbling for Fish. V

    Searching through Google for other examples of scanner art has yielded a pedestrian abundance of body parts and static arrangements. It cannot be understated that search optimization efforts as well as a lack of artistic imagination are prime suspects in this expanding pool of derivatives.

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    In light of recent philosophical changes, the tones of future posts will attempt to steer away from negative attitudes towards current art trends.

摸魚～ Fumbling for Fish. IV

    Digital manipulation tools like Adobe Photoshop are best used to cosmetically modify or efficiently emulate physical alterations existing practically-made works. Over-reliance on computer-generated effects as a primary source of displaying imagination reflects the disposable consumerist attitude that followed a culture once proud of its ability to manufacture and produce abundant national products for worldwide dispersal. By not adapting the citizenship to raise native standards with better early education and improved family resources, it comes as no surprise that a formerly industrious populace neither living within its means nor evolving to meet new definitions would also result in a shrunken middle-class growing more desperate to secure a perch on the economic ladder.

Bottle on 4990. (click to enlarge)

Bottle on 4990. (click to enlarge)

Bottle on 4990. (click to enlarge)

    When a nation's citizens grow increasingly ignorant of their own productive capabilities and are insidiously steered toward developing insatiable appetites for image-oriented mirages designed by visual media conglomerates for individual rather than communal profit, the financial gaps in society will eventually become ravenous abysses the likes of which only few can traverse. It's been said that fortune favors the brave, while perpetuating various irrational fears among an uneducated people has proved historically accurate and customarily advantageous to the slave trade.

    "You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis."
- Tyler Durden, Fight Club (1999)




    Note: All images are *not* created with digital manipulation software (i.e. Adobe Photoshop) for composition and content.

摸魚～ Fumbling for Fish. III

    Recently there was a bit of furor over an Instagram picture being on the front page of the New York Times that triggered concerns whether traditional photography had become obsolete.

    The fact of the matter is that modern views of representative imaging have now become adopted by a media outlet of bygone eras in order to reinvigorate its cultural relevancy. The instantaneous social-sharing feature of wireless digital information is a logical business adaptation for this faded major player to regain the attention of future generations; commercial radio still flourishes despite the dominance of cable television, pedigree racehorses are more profitable investments than personal automobiles, and steakhouses take opposite floorspace at malls while McDonald's huddles away in the food court.

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    By trying to connect to less-discerning audiences via integration of mass appeal imagery, the "hipster" generation has something to possibly latch onto and give the New York Times some viably consumable reputation.

    In the meantime, it seems hard pressed to find photographic evidence of similar work on Google Image Search for this type of scanography.

 
    Note: All images are *not* created with digital manipulation software (i.e. Adobe Photoshop) for composition and content.

摸魚～ Fumbling For Fish. II

    Did a Google search for similar visuals and found that this technique has already been attempted, so apparently it's something called scanography.

    Since basic principles with the "Appetite for Creation" series include a mechanical eye recording lines of reflected information and interrupting its predictable motions via human involvement, it then became an experimental search for suitable subject matter.

Temple roof in Taiwan. (click to enlarge)

Temple roof in Taiwan. (click to enlarge)

Temple roof in Taiwan. (click to enlarge)

Temple roof in Taiwan. (click to enlarge)

    Note: All images are *not* created with digital manipulation software (i.e. Adobe Photoshop) for composition and content.