Iron Man: 1941
via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive – Vintage Fine Art Prints by Dave
August 1941
“One end of the Hull-Rust-Mahoning pit, largest open pit iron mine in the world, near Hibbing, Minnesota. The pit is two and a half miles long, three quarters of a mile wide and about four hundred feet deep.”
Medium format safety negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration
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via Big Think by David Berreby
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via Flavorwire by Tom Hawking
We came across these abstract pieces via Creative Blog, and were rather taken with their bold horizontal lines of colour. The really interesting thing, however, is that they’re actually album covers – they’re part of a series called Average Albums, produced by artist Matt Booth via a technique that breaks the image into a series of horizontal strips and then averages the colour value of the image across each row. The result is abstract compositions that evoke the pieces they’re based on, but also have a life of their own. Interestingly, some covers jump out at you, perhaps indicating how important colour is in their composition (Nirvana’s Nevermind and Primal Scream’s Screamadelica are good examples), whereas others are pretty much unrecognisable. Either way, the results are interesting.
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