As part of my quest to combat bandwidth thieves with Satan I came across DearComputer.nl’s Google Image Ripper[1]. It’s a service that will query Google Images and display the full-size images of the search results in no apparent order. Essentially it rips the images from the warm womb of their hosting site and spits them out in an explosive bricolage.

Dear Computer – surprise me

What’s interesting about it is that it seems to have a magical ability to present, in one jumbled up mess, the intimate aesthetic of its subject. Somehow, through its collected images, each subject comes to its right. And, of course, that aesthetic changes daily as the internext changes its mind about its subject – what the internet thinks about abortion today is not what it’ll think of it tomorrow. It’s fucking profound, man.

My next post will be a music review for Burial’s Untrue and Cocteau Twins and for both of these Dear Computer gets it right. Of Burial we know nothing more than his single sketch. The Cocteau Twins shoegaze from the 80s 4AD.

So go ahead, have some fun with George Bush(easter bunnies and Jesus), global warming(Al Gore, children and graphs), suicide(Tibet, Singulair and Pete Wentz), Zimbabwe(hands and queues), best life(astronauts, Oprah, Joel Osteen and Patrick Dempsey).
Your dear computer will project the glowing light of its subject onto your wall.