[Pics] Stunning Kaleidoscope-Inspired Aerial Images

Anthropocene is a series of images from Dublin photographer David Thomas Smith. I would love to see these photographs in print. Very, very large print. I think it’s a brilliantly executed concept. Also, there’s an app for that. The year after Smith created these shots, Rorschmap was invented. It creates the same type of composites(albeit, in lower quality) using Google Street View images.

Here is an excerpt from Smith’s blog, explaining a little more about his inspiration for this project:

Composited from digital files drawn from aerial views taken from internet satellite images, this work reflects upon the complex structures that make up the centers of global capitalism, transforming the aerial landscapes of sites associated with industries such as oil, precious metals, consumer culture information and excess. Thousands of seemingly insignificant coded pieces of information are sown together like knots in a rug to reveal a grander spectacle.

Questions of photographic and economic realities are further complicated through the formal use of patterns that have their origins in the ancient civilizations of Persia. This work draws upon the patterns and motifs used by Persian rug makers, especially the way Afghani weavers use the rug to record their experiences more literally with vivid images of the war torn land that surrounds them.

This collision between the old and the new, fact and fiction, surveillance and invisibility, is part of a strategy to reflect on the global order of things.

Burj Dubai

Beijing International Airport

Silicon Valley, CA

1000 Chrysler Dr, Auburn Hills, MI

Three Mile Island Generating Station, Middletown, PA

Las Vegas, NV

Las Norias de Daza, Almeria

Via: Feature Shoot

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