Tuesday, March 17, 2009

maps and networks



It certainly seems possible that all things these days are interconnected and can be traced. Good, bad or neutrally shaded there seems to be a way to find a thread that binds. I'm sure there is a way to break down this theory again and again but let's set that aside for the moment.

While roaming around last night I was thinking of ways to use this rash conclusion creatively. I recalled an interesting 'album cover' creation tag that was going round. Take a flikr image here, wiki article there, add random quote and combine in Photoshop (or better yet Gimp -go Open Source!) and viola your album cover. Taking this one step further, I'd like to see what happens by taking words of the day with random wiki article with craigslist adds and map their connection.

What does 'map their connection' mean? To me it means find the thread in whatever way -truly logical or highly suspect- that one can.

So can one really connect the word epistolary and the 1761 Milestone...

Samuel Richardson of course.

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