Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
~ Robert Frost
A collection of strange messages and clever graffiti, as seen on walls everywhere.
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
~ Robert Frost
A Korean movie poster for The Dark Knight Rises. The characters at the bottom spell out the name phonetically: dah-ka nie-tu ri-suh.
This piece of driftwood. Did it drift in the ocean until it washed up one day on the shore of it’s recipient? How long has it waited? Has it found her yet?
Paolo Cirio, Street Ghosts, 2012
“The public display of this biopolitical surplus from Google’s value-harvesting campaigns – the people aren’t supposed to appear in the pictures, but they do – appropriates their aesthetic and political value, as opposed to the commercial. Google appropriates the social labor we perform by constituting the public; simply by investing the city with social meaning, we unintentionally provide value for Google to capture. This Street Art intervenes by confronting the public with the aesthetic qualities of the data they didn’t even know they were alienating, and forces them to reckon with the possibility of their own image appearing as ghostly slaves trapped in a digital world forever.”
I want to find this place now.