Moorland stream #dartmoornationalpark #moors #nature #nomeart
“It appears that it was all a misunderstanding. What was only a trial run was taken seriously. The rivers will return to their beginnings. The wind will cease in its turning about. Trees instead of budding will tend to their roots. Old men will chase a ball, a glance in the mirror– They are children again. The dead will wake up, not comprehending. Till everything that happened has unhappened. What a relief! Breathe freely, you who have suffered much.”— Czeslaw Milosz, “This World,” Facing the River (via kxowledge)
Similar Images #51.
A neglected feature on Google Images allows users to do a search with an image, not text. This ongoing project explores that feature. The first image here was dragged into a Google Image Search window. The rest appeared as ”visually similar images” on the results page.
As an addendum to the five-year retrospective here on Nemfrog, @charlmalan reminds me of a series of work I published in the early days. Then you could do a reverse image search on Google Images that yielded results based on shapes and color. This allowed me to make progressions that approached narrative in a kind of hard to express way.
Then the Google algorithm changed. Now it relies heavily on words, so it yields not so much similar images but images related by topic. I’ve never been able to replicate the searches that I could do before.
Wata no Kuni Hoshi / The Star of Cottonland - illustrations by manga artist Yumiko Ōshima (Animedia Deluxe, 1984)
Mexican Doll House complete with six dolls dating from 1890-1920. Via pathofneedles.
1920 c. Lin, who with her friend Joan Schromanche, owned a shop called “Jolin’s”, poses here with cutouts for CB Corsets. Greenwich Village, New York City. Photos by Jesse Tarbox Beals.
