Tyler Paige
I'm a graphic design student with a bad habit, bad habit for drugs!
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Timesaver
My desktop wallpaper is a slideshow of 57 images I have saved in a folder, almost entirely composed of images I have downloaded from the Internet. The slideshow spends 1 minute on every image. Here, I’ve compressed 57 minutes of slideshow into a instantly digestible jpg– sized to have 26 iterations when tiled as a wallpaper to account for the 26 loops the slideshow would go through in one 24 hour period– thus saving myself 1482 minutes a day.
That’s a really interesting factor I hadn’t considered: that everything that shows up on someone’s dashboard is there by their own choosing. That sort of willful-but-not-willful submission of self is captivating— what you’ll willfully (or blissfully ignorantly) impose upon yourself. It’s like if I were to go back onto your Facebook Timeline and draw attention to a status update from 2007, your immediate reaction might be one of someone whose privacy was invaded. But I didn’t invade your privacy at all, you put it online for everyone to access, including Facebook the corporation and the companies to which it sells your data.
I wonder where that Internet masochism comes from. It’s kind of hilarious, actually, that we will blatantly impose shitty situations on ourselves and still get outraged when the terms and conditions are acted upon.
I’ve been thinking a lot about making our physical world a lot like our digital world: mimicking the habits, applying network “rules”. I haven’t totally worked out “why?” on more than a project by project situation, but I guess I’m trying to do experiments. Or maybe forcing attention on the shit we do everyday without even thinking: bringing mind to mindless activity. An attempt to save some sort of cognizance in a time when there is minimal temporal gap between not knowing, knowing, and forgetting.
I think one of the funniest web habits we form is the compulsion to infinitely scroll as quickly as possible. Like someone ceaselessly scrolling down their Tumblr dashboard, hardly absorbing anything, or giving anything a chance to be absorbed. It’s a weird type of mindset where you think: if it doesn’t immediately appeal to me visually, there’s no sense of looking at it. And even then, who spends 30 minutes sitting, analyzing. I wonder how related that is to the instant gratification of our 21st century American society. Maybe it’s a lack of content on the image creator’s part. It’s hard to make a general statement.
But what if that’s always how you saw? Your vision would always be scrolling up, like a film strip slowed down. Perhaps an object that fits on your head and covers your eyes and only allows you to see through it’s cameras, letting digital eyes become your eyes. It’s funny, though: whenever the camera is explained to someone, it is explained by relating it to the eye. Now, it seems, we should explain the eye by relating it to the camera.
The difference, though, between this object’s vision and someone’s vision while actually on the interent is the willingness to examine content in this way. Any type of object that would alter the user’s vision in this way would have to be something with which the user would want to engage. Promoted as a product with packaging. It’s like, any user of this product would nostalgic of the internet every time they left the internet.
But then again, how could you leave the internet? Not in a “Why would you do something like that?!” sensational sense; but literally “how could you leave the internet?” A writer for The Verge is starting a project where he attempts to do just that. He describes his connection to the internet not just the time spent on his computer, but the “ambient internet” that his smart phone allows. It seems like smart phones have become so integral to our living that they’re not even seen as connections to the internet anymore: they’re an extension of our body.
I don’t think that matters, though. The people that would find it more than difficult to leave the internet are the same ones who would have a feeling of nostalgia if their vision was transformed. It’s about how you can make your real life presence feel more like being in front a 27” iMac looking at Tumblr. For when you can’t be totally engrossed in an instant-gratification digital connection, this product is at least for simulation. I imagine it would be sold on St. Marks Place, next to Whatever Tattoos.
Fuck that. I mean, if this is the digital age, and all is possible through technology and magic, why shouldn’t anyone be able to go out of their house and be denied the right to a total engrossment of 27” iMac Tumblr internet? Fuck it. Put an iMac on wheels, slap a generator on the cart, give it a broadband internet stick. Fuck it. We’ll make your life digital if it kills us.
I’ve posted some new drawings to my Cargo Collective. They’ve been really fun. I’m creating 40 drawings based on emphasis on the edge. Doing some cool hand-pixelation and bezier curves.
I’ve posted some three-dimensional work on my Cargo Collective, which is odd for me, I guess. In it, I’m questioning how we understand a tool’s aesthetic: do we understand its function based on its form, or do we understand its form because we know its function. This question is explored by creating tools in which form is given priority over function.
Continent Studies 1 through 3.
An attempt to rationalize the irrational. “Territories” were created using computer-generated random shapes. These countries were placed together to make the tightest fit, in an attempt to make sense their randomness. The final result ended up being a map of the unmapable.
Tilt your head to the right.
Slit scan of trip from Astor Place to 125th Street, until my camera ran out of batteries.
I’m sure I have one lying around, but there’s nothing of substance on it.
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#Sicc piece by Logek – Pic by @datachump. #Graffiti #Brooklyn #NYC
I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.
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Timesaver
My desktop wallpaper is a slideshow of 57 images I have saved in a folder, almost entirely composed of images I have downloaded from the Internet. The slideshow spends 1 minute on every image. Here, I’ve compressed 57 minutes of slideshow into a instantly digestible jpg– sized to have 26 iterations when tiled as a wallpaper to account for the 26 loops the slideshow would go through in one 24 hour period– thus saving myself 1482 minutes a day.
That’s a really interesting factor I hadn’t considered: that everything that shows up on someone’s dashboard is there by their own choosing. That sort of willful-but-not-willful submission of self is captivating— what you’ll willfully (or blissfully ignorantly) impose upon yourself. It’s like if I were to go back onto your Facebook Timeline and draw attention to a status update from 2007, your immediate reaction might be one of someone whose privacy was invaded. But I didn’t invade your privacy at all, you put it online for everyone to access, including Facebook the corporation and the companies to which it sells your data.
I wonder where that Internet masochism comes from. It’s kind of hilarious, actually, that we will blatantly impose shitty situations on ourselves and still get outraged when the terms and conditions are acted upon.
I’ve been thinking a lot about making our physical world a lot like our digital world: mimicking the habits, applying network “rules”. I haven’t totally worked out “why?” on more than a project by project situation, but I guess I’m trying to do experiments. Or maybe forcing attention on the shit we do everyday without even thinking: bringing mind to mindless activity. An attempt to save some sort of cognizance in a time when there is minimal temporal gap between not knowing, knowing, and forgetting.
I think one of the funniest web habits we form is the compulsion to infinitely scroll as quickly as possible. Like someone ceaselessly scrolling down their Tumblr dashboard, hardly absorbing anything, or giving anything a chance to be absorbed. It’s a weird type of mindset where you think: if it doesn’t immediately appeal to me visually, there’s no sense of looking at it. And even then, who spends 30 minutes sitting, analyzing. I wonder how related that is to the instant gratification of our 21st century American society. Maybe it’s a lack of content on the image creator’s part. It’s hard to make a general statement.
But what if that’s always how you saw? Your vision would always be scrolling up, like a film strip slowed down. Perhaps an object that fits on your head and covers your eyes and only allows you to see through it’s cameras, letting digital eyes become your eyes. It’s funny, though: whenever the camera is explained to someone, it is explained by relating it to the eye. Now, it seems, we should explain the eye by relating it to the camera.
The difference, though, between this object’s vision and someone’s vision while actually on the interent is the willingness to examine content in this way. Any type of object that would alter the user’s vision in this way would have to be something with which the user would want to engage. Promoted as a product with packaging. It’s like, any user of this product would nostalgic of the internet every time they left the internet.
But then again, how could you leave the internet? Not in a “Why would you do something like that?!” sensational sense; but literally “how could you leave the internet?” A writer for The Verge is starting a project where he attempts to do just that. He describes his connection to the internet not just the time spent on his computer, but the “ambient internet” that his smart phone allows. It seems like smart phones have become so integral to our living that they’re not even seen as connections to the internet anymore: they’re an extension of our body.
I don’t think that matters, though. The people that would find it more than difficult to leave the internet are the same ones who would have a feeling of nostalgia if their vision was transformed. It’s about how you can make your real life presence feel more like being in front a 27” iMac looking at Tumblr. For when you can’t be totally engrossed in an instant-gratification digital connection, this product is at least for simulation. I imagine it would be sold on St. Marks Place, next to Whatever Tattoos.
Fuck that. I mean, if this is the digital age, and all is possible through technology and magic, why shouldn’t anyone be able to go out of their house and be denied the right to a total engrossment of 27” iMac Tumblr internet? Fuck it. Put an iMac on wheels, slap a generator on the cart, give it a broadband internet stick. Fuck it. We’ll make your life digital if it kills us.
I’ve posted some new drawings to my Cargo Collective. They’ve been really fun. I’m creating 40 drawings based on emphasis on the edge. Doing some cool hand-pixelation and bezier curves.
I’ve posted some three-dimensional work on my Cargo Collective, which is odd for me, I guess. In it, I’m questioning how we understand a tool’s aesthetic: do we understand its function based on its form, or do we understand its form because we know its function. This question is explored by creating tools in which form is given priority over function.
Continent Studies 1 through 3.
An attempt to rationalize the irrational. “Territories” were created using computer-generated random shapes. These countries were placed together to make the tightest fit, in an attempt to make sense their randomness. The final result ended up being a map of the unmapable.
Tilt your head to the right.
Slit scan of trip from Astor Place to 125th Street, until my camera ran out of batteries.
Put a video on a scanner. Two different zooms.
This is basically the same thing as drawing homework.
I’m sure I have one lying around, but there’s nothing of substance on it.
