HOT Garfield comics random generator in the spirit of John Cage’s music of chance. As the site says, “So this guy noticed that Garfield comics make just as much sense if you throw random panels together, and sometimes are actually pretty funny. He got a cease and desist letter. So he made the code available for people who wanted to try it for themselves. Here we go!” I am not sure if anyone knows who made the original site but a lot of people have made their own since. Click on any image below to start making your own.
HOT processed photographs by Thomas Ruff, exploring the impact of the internet and digitization on photography and pornography. As Ruff writes, “I always want to take the medium of photography into the picture, so that you are always aware that you are looking at an image – a photograph… so, in the picture I hope you can see two things: the image itself, plus the reflection – or the thinking – about photography. I hope it’s visible. I’m an investigator, and it is as if I am investigating the grammar of photography.”
HOT cartoon generator from the brain of Cory Arcangel. Every week the New Yorker runs a competition in which readers are invited to make a caption for a one panel comic. Cory designed a computer program which simply grabs the cartoon every week, adds the caption “What a misunderstanding!” and posts it to a blog. So simple. So HOT. Once again, Cory makes my world a brighter place to be.
HOT digital photography from the Herschel space telescope; “Herschel has discovered hundreds of stars forming in the Aquila molecular cloud, and in other areas, Herschel has discovered thousands of infrared galaxies in just hours of observing… Herschel has made a spectral scan of the Orion nebula with about 100,000 spectral features, you could go on and on, and still this is just the tip of the iceberg of what is coming.” (Göran Pilbratt)
“People think updos are so hard, but they’re not. Your hair should look tousled and undone. If I’m in a mood to go out and feel hot and sexy, I want long hair that I can feel on my back. But I also like bed head. I’ll usually wash my hair and let it air-dry wavy, but if I’m just in a hang-out mood, I won’t even wash it. I’ll wait until it smells.” (Jessica Simpson)
Fucking HOT digital film by Daimon0000 which I found stumbling around YouTube. The sound is taken from speeches by the current Italian president, Silvio Berlusconi (who is extremely corrupt) sourced from YouTube, accompanied by a quote from Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari: “it was not by means of a metaphor, even a paternal metaphor, that hitler was able to sexually arouse the fascists.” (Capitalism and Schizophrenia) Easily one of my favorite films of 2009. DAMN HOT!
HOT image corruptions by Benjamin Gaulon (a.k.a. Recyclism). This project is twofold – on the one hand, Gaulon has used the aesthetics of digital corruption to critique a variety of political regimes (author as producer of products). On the other hand, Gaulon has created a computer program to corrupt JPGs and made it available for free on-line so anyone can use it (author as producer of more producers). Walter Benjamin would be proud!
HOT video art by Michael Bell-Smith made by superimposing the first 12 chapters of R. Kelly’s Trapped in the Closet over top of one another. This is what I imagine it is like being inside R. Kelly’s brain. SO HOT!
