Okay, so this is a bit of slacking off, but I’ve got a brother in town visiting and didn’t have time for a proper post. Plus, I thought this was pretty great. Seen yesterday on Park Avenue.
I’d also like it to serve as an addendum to this post, in which I argued that there are at least a couple of real problems with seeking happiness in consumer goods. This image stands for a third problem: all things must pass.
I nominate this for one of the banner photos. The colorful ones are usually my favorites, but this is terrific–and creepily organic, like a sinister intestinal worm. Kind of like the way Mac products grab you and don’t let go. (Which makes the tag “sent from my iPhone” that much funnier.)
p.s. Hi, Dave’s brother!
Yep, this would make a nice banner photo. Forgive my Mac ignorance which is almost complete: are those headphones or something? How come the cord is split at both ends — this makes it seem like it must not be headphones but I’m not sure what else it could be.
They are not just headphones, they are apparently iPhone headphones with the little remote/mic bump on one cord. The split in the other end is the wires gone all to hell.
That they’re partially embedded in the tarmac reminds me of the La Brea Tar Pits in LA. Perhaps, thousands of years from now, a scientist from another galaxy will be using some high-tech tweezers to extract this set of headphones, curious as to their origin and use.
I love it! I’m working on a project, which involves decadence. This picture would go very nicely with the artwork. It encompasses the eroded ethics, self-indulgence, and certainly, “the art is for the sake of the art” ideas (a big theme in Hickey’s work, and my personal favorite.)
A lovely fossil from a future-bygone era. Perhaps a million years from now, archaeologists will argue whether the headphones are plant, animal, or mineral; they will examine them closer to find that they are evidence that our society was far more advanced than they had previously believed.
Okay, so this is a bit of slacking off, but I’ve got a brother in town visiting and didn’t have time for a proper post. Plus, I thought this was pretty great. Seen yesterday on Park Avenue.
I’d also like it to serve as an addendum to this post, in which I argued that there are at least a couple of real problems with seeking happiness in consumer goods. This image stands for a third problem: all things must pass.
mac products are not just consumer “goods”.
consumer “greats” is more like it! take care of them, and they will take care of you . . .
this makes me sad, like seeing lovely earthworms trapped too far from soil after a rainstorm.
I nominate this for one of the banner photos. The colorful ones are usually my favorites, but this is terrific–and creepily organic, like a sinister intestinal worm. Kind of like the way Mac products grab you and don’t let go. (Which makes the tag “sent from my iPhone” that much funnier.)
p.s. Hi, Dave’s brother!
Yep, this would make a nice banner photo. Forgive my Mac ignorance which is almost complete: are those headphones or something? How come the cord is split at both ends — this makes it seem like it must not be headphones but I’m not sure what else it could be.
They are not just headphones, they are apparently iPhone headphones with the little remote/mic bump on one cord. The split in the other end is the wires gone all to hell.
That they’re partially embedded in the tarmac reminds me of the La Brea Tar Pits in LA. Perhaps, thousands of years from now, a scientist from another galaxy will be using some high-tech tweezers to extract this set of headphones, curious as to their origin and use.
It looks to me like the earphones are plugged into the ground, and that the ground is listening.
I third the banner photo idea. We ought to reminded of this more than just this once.
Memento mori.
I have a few other photos that other people have sent me that I haven’t gotten around to converting to banner use. I’ll do it this weekend, I promise.
Fin de siècle.
I love it! I’m working on a project, which involves decadence. This picture would go very nicely with the artwork. It encompasses the eroded ethics, self-indulgence, and certainly, “the art is for the sake of the art” ideas (a big theme in Hickey’s work, and my personal favorite.)
A lovely fossil from a future-bygone era. Perhaps a million years from now, archaeologists will argue whether the headphones are plant, animal, or mineral; they will examine them closer to find that they are evidence that our society was far more advanced than they had previously believed.