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West Hollywood, California, 2007
Who are these guys?
Your guess is as good as mine.
Whenever I'm out and about with the DSLR in a bar or club, I almost always get asked by random strangers to take their photo(s). I don't like to pass up an opportunity to practice my people photography, so I always comply with their request(s).
What's kind of fascinating to me is that more often than not, they'll then wander off without providing me with their contact info so that I can email them the picture. Ah, the power of a "real" camera.
This is a poster from a new experimental blog by Elinor Bengiat and myself ;
:: Random :: A project inspired by the 'Random Article' button in Wikipedia. Each poster is based on a different wiki article.
Follow us on: random-wiki-blog.tumblr.com/
The randomization, of course, has thrown aesthetics right out the window. They look as if a child took a pair of scissors to a globe.
The next step, I think is to give the generating algorithm some direction to minimize the following
a) the number of pieces,
b) the number of cuts through, say, landmasses (which are undesirable when dealing with maps) or peoples heads if we're talking about panoramas.
c) the amount of distortion.