Mashups. Two or more songs or tracks blended together to create a new work. It's nothing new, but it's fitting that this now wildly popular phenomenon is coming into its own at a time when we seem to be completely plundering the past--especially the recent past--for our entertainments. Yellow and Blue make Green.
In this spirit I offer a few photo mashups of my own. These images are all taken from photos displayed on my laptop's screensaver, which I set to randomly select one of the 17,000 or so pictures stored on my computer. Each image is shown for about 10 seconds and then fades for about a second to a new photo. I was interested in that one second fade-in/out, a brief layering where two worlds gently collide and a new world glimmers. The randomness of the exercise lends an almost ad-lib quality. I didn't what was coming or how it would react to what was leaving. The results are intriguing and dreamlike.
Here's folks walking Bay To Breakers in GG Park transported to Ocean Beach:
A mix of vistas:
Garden sailing:
City and plants:
A mashup of San Franciscos. Downtown skyline looms over blended GG Park and city:
USF's Lone Mountain tower:
Oldenburg Safety Pin in the DeYoung sculpture garden gets a Marin Headlands vista:
Here's three consecutive shots:
Milan's Duomo gets even more gothic:
St. Anne's in SF:
Baby Ezra makes an appearance with a skyline shot of Milan:
Another Ezra shot with the streets of Milan. All random!
Ocean Beach and the apartment view together:
What an unexpected and delightful surprise! Your "accidental art" joins collages, montages, soundscapes and mashups to stimulate the senses in ways that conventional art cannot.
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Wow! It must be hard to look away from the screen! Some of these would make beautiful prints. They are transient yet you can capture them if you happen to be watching and recognize the ones that are really great. I've said it before, Carey...you have the gift of the eye!
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