JK Keller – c71123.com
01.01.2007
17.03.2004
22.01.1999
JK Keller is a talented designer who combines technology and powerful ideas to create amazing works of art. He seems to be most famous for the project called “The adaption to my generation – a daily photo project”. The project started in 1998 and starting from this time JK Keller was shooting a photo of himself and in this way he tried to observe the differences in his appearance throughout the days, weeks and months. And actually he has changed a lot- you can have a look at the whole collection of photos here. If you’re impatient and don’t want to spend all your life browsing through the thousands of photos you can watch the video “Living my life faster” which sums up 8 years of the daily photo project.
Actually browsing through the various projects of JK Keller I found many others which are also very original. “Spam abstractions” is the combination of 100 hundred spam emails with the text deleted and you can see the result below.
The last project I found extremely interesting (yeah, you can call me a geek). However, it might be too complicated for me to explain how those images were created so let me just paste the explanation that I found on the site of this project made by the author:
“(…)But to answer your first query: how it works. The app that I wrote visits a website and downloads the source text. It parses the text, looking for links to other web pages, links to itself, links to other file types, email addresses, etc. Based on how many links it finds, it creates a “star”. The number of links found equals the number of spines on the “star”. Thus, if it finds no links, it draws a circle.
It then goes to the first link on the page and does the same thing. Then it iterates over thousands of pages. E-mail addresses are drawn as a plus-sign, errors are an ‘x’, non-html files are squares, and a line follows the path the program took.
Another caveat: The first instance of a web page is a unique star. Anytime the app finds that same page linked to by another page, it draws a line back to the originating star instead of another star.(…)”
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