the Wlog

Today Google celebrates the issue of the patent of the barcode (US Patent 2,612,994) on 7 October 1952 by turning the repetitively primed Google logo into a minimalistic barcode we humans generally have very few affinity with and associate with products. Only barcode readers, machines or code-enthusiastic humans, have a literal interaction with the code. For the rest of us - me included - every barcode is like a portrait of figures with family resemblance, apparently randomly ordered thin and thicker vertical black lines.

Imagine one could write barcode by multiplying the cursor. Even simpler than Morse code: just lines and spaces.

BTW: Reminds me of counting 1-2-3 in Roman numbers, I-II-III, or in Chinese:

Google Maps shows an organically shaped dot annex hole that is mysteriously shaped. Is it Nessie? Are these Nessie’s tentacles (s)he/it uses to do tentacly things to non-Nessie (water) creatures, water plants and mud?

The Wikipedia page on Hello Kitty features a picture (by Javier Mediavilla Ezquibela) of the Madrid Sanrio shop, with shoppers mostly unaware of their role in placing their body parts and objects where one might expect the eyes and nose of Hello Kitty.

I wrote the short fiction film script “Kitty in Stock“, based on the concept above..

Mori (2007)
(based on work by Mariko Mori)

I find that the most creative time that I have is when I sit down in an airplane. When I get on an airplane, the world is different and suddenly I’m out of my usual environment and I have a completely different perspective on things and usually start writing and start doing my planning and goal setting during that time.
Marc Lesser, Google talk July 2007.

Lick me, I’m on Fire / PJH@CNN.fn (2007)
(based on Musician Polly Jean Harvey’s glitch-frame +-4:44 of a live interview on CNN financial network in 2004.)

Verslag/omslag (2007)

Aan/uitslag (2007)

Vickey Mouse (2007)
(One source of the work is a Viking brooch found in Uppåkra (South of Sweden) from +-800 AD and the other source is a Mickey Mouse (Walt Disney) image. The brooch needed some pixel surgery to fit the MM image to some degree. Some scars are still visible from the operation.)