ive been collecting exploded schematics for a while, wanting to put together a chimera of sorts. so i started working on some, taking away numbers and lines. im going to see what i can piece together. numbers are good, but take away the clutter and something else emerges.... looks better at original dimensions...click it...
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B, These are really amazing!
yo b...it ws freshman year (motherfucking 109) where your collection of images like this got me psyched out of my mind about google image search, and image galleries....im pretty excited that you have achieved some image search masterpiece....you should think think about publishing a book...or like a "zine"....maybe something online...hey dude.
The JFK one that you did is a great from that era. Is it harder to find good images now that google is a little polluted? Yea, I agree with henry, libraries of shit is a great idea, zine format and such.
yeah i still have that jfk one..some new stuff i was thinking would be larger and entirely more convoluted than that. you'd be suprised, there is so much technical illustration floatin around on the image searches. some are cleaner than others, some suffer xerox degradation, which is kind of a neat decay in its own right. this one was one of like 30 diagrams of a ducatti motorcycle... many more exist for different vehicles. I'd like to see one of a large assembly line machine, something with a lot more parts. gotta keep lookin...
check this out:
all 3200 parts of a F1 racecar suspended in air
anyhow, some sort of zine/collection would be a good idea..these things really do need to be preserved...i imagine the art of technical hand drawings is a dying thing...
i would be pretty psyched to have like a copy of like a hand bound limited edition image book...also...google is trying to improe google image search....i posted on this a while, but it was ery early in the blog...but anyway there is a thing called "google image labeler" and its sort of like a game...you get matched up with someone and you are both shown and image and you type in keywords until you get one that matches....i think that its about making image search more keyword based that just image title name....the worst thing about google image search is the fact that you find a lot of banners and stuff....theys suck....balls
I remember reading about that F1 exhibit, but the picture is fucking awesome. It's so scientific, but it almost looks like a sarah szeinstallation.
It's really funny that google has created a game that's basically getting people to work for google for no pay. It's sort of like a dirty trick, but than again it's like internet karma... 'help google now, get the image you want later'
The whole google privacy issue is really rocking me back and forth this week. Like, the internet is great, but the idea of google storing every single web page you visit is pretty alarming. They already have a catalogue of everything we say on blogs, write in emails, watch on youtube... This is obviously a topic for another thread...
But back to the schematics, I really think that you're on to something really cool with these B.
yo greg...good point with the sarah sze comparison...they do have something in common...also kind of some similarities with judy pfaffs work...but serious sarah sze (for those here who went to bard, she had some installations outside CCS one year, if you dont remember)...but at this point i had forgotten about here..and incidentally i am now downloading images and adding them to my image archive...
This is one of the works outside CCS at bard
im really glad that you posted an artist reference...i love to find new artists, or remember an artist that i sort of forgot.
Man, that is a sweet link to some of her work, thanks for posting it -- her stuff is so precise. Like, precise as in bad ass.
I love Judy's work. Sarah was a student of Judy's at one point if I remember correctly. Judy has this great ability of connecting lots of random shit together. She always liked to take people to P&T Surplus and Materials exchange to just by tons of manufactured things to then go back and piece together, which reminds me of what B's got going on here.
I agree with Henry about a book of them, they seem more fit to be bound than matted and framed
oh and I also think they are SUPER AMAZING
thanks doc....whoa that sarah sze stuff is great....combining the raw structural elements all sculptural-like.
my original take here was to take the schematic elements, make something massive, but still have it look like a schematic... there is so much source material out there its staggering. i didnt really intend to leave each machine on their lonesome like above, but im likin it...
the motorcycle example is kind of an exception. most of the schematics i run across dont look like an eroded version of the machine it represents... most things are much more pulled apart and abstracted, lending themselves to dissection and reconstruction.
yeah if i had a printer id be printing this stuff out..one day...
i think if you were to combine these images with a sort of idealism...like a fake one...but it kind of reminds of me buckminster fuller...or like even further back...like DaVinci Code sketchbooks...but like Fuller was a real visionary who got reall passed over...and a lot of his stuff is like novelty now...sort of likie how exploded schemtics are sort of novel...but there is actually so much truth to both of these examples...but Fuller's ideas would still work..and they are far out...but what you ate showing is stuff that DOES work...and is in production...so like in general people have no idea what anything the buy really is..i think there is a certain sketchbook quality to these...like who would recognize something they own and use in an illustration like this...but of course this is like a major problem in consumerism today...especailly with all this talk of being green and stuff...i mean obviously the general public isnt going to notice anything unless they snort it up their nose...but i think that a mechanical breakdown is some sort of start...its like the organic food movement.
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