January 6, 2007

DAYLIFE. Check out the new News Web site, DayLife, which had its Beta launch yesterday. Graphically intriguing, visually enticing, the site (so I've been told) was partly designed by the brilliant team behind 10X10. (Full disclosure: Key advisor to DayLife is Jeff Jarvis, Mr. BuzzMachine.com, who convinced me to start this blog in the first place.)

10X10. Speaking of 10X10, click over to that breakthrough site, which aggregates the day's news by its voluminous Image Output. Really amazing navigation system. Play around with the right-hand nav bar.

100x100. While you're at it, segue to 100x100, (see below) -- a project by photographer Michael Wolf, who shot 100 Hong Kong residents in their 100x100-foot-square living quarters.

HORROR ON THE WALLS. Yesterday, boingboing.net featured the ambitious photo-projection project, "Collateral," by artist Jean-Christian Bourcart who, in 2005, splashed images of Iraq war victims onto the walls of American homes and then photographed the results.

From "Collateral," by Jean-Christian Bourcart,
Tivoli, New York, 2005

On his Web site, Bourcart explains his motivation: "I projected photographs of mutilated and dead Iraqis on American houses, supermarkets, churches, and parking lots. I was thinking of this new generation of kids who will be traumatized for life by growing up during wartime. It was a desperate gesture: my personal protest for the lack of interest for the non-American victims. I found the images on the web. Some American soldiers post their own pictures on a website. They would show a cut leg with the caption: “where's da rest of my shit?” Or a blown up head with the caption: “need a hair cut."....I could not help thinking of those images as some kind of restless ghosts that endlessly wander in the intermediate level of the web. I took care of them like a embalmer would; downloading, revamping, printing, rephotographiing, then projecting them as if I was looking for a place where they would rest in peace and at the same time haunt those who pretend not to know what was going on."