Archive for category: Splorpist

Photos in the genre of Grant Hutchinson’s Splorp.com

Crashed plasma    (2004.06.13)

This is, if memory serves, our third lesson in why Windows and Internet Explorer are unreliable platforms for unattended signage.

Ice-blue towel dispenser    (2004.06.13)

Fabulously futuristic colour, self-replicating visual instructions (with copy errors, actually) – in short, everything you’re looking for in a towel dispenser.

Colour-field experiment    (2004.06.13)

I love these sorts of segmented displays. In fact, I’m kicking myself that I can’t find the article in an old Wallpaper^<asterisk> about a London artist who does nothing but colour-field experiments.

Or I could just look at the background image at Somnolent.

Portholesque    (2004.06.13)

Giant Rolls-Royce wheel    (2004.06.13)

And the kicker? This $400,000 car carried a disabled-driver permit, too!

Funny, I didn’t know so many millionaires could drive but not walk!

Live from Osaka    (2004.06.09)

Colin N. Doyle of Osaka, Japan snapped this one:

Your crown’s gonna fall off if you go “skipping,” right?

‘Throw open the switches on the sonic oscillator’    (2004.06.09)

Retro dumpster    (2004.06.09)

“Urban” photos of graffiti-laden dumpsters are so retro they’re like wearing ripped-up jackets and mohawk haircuts.

Dirt, brick, and concrete are dumped at the foot of the Leslie St. Spit, adding to the peninsula it is. An astonishing waste-management policy, but it actually provides habitat for birds.

1-800-GOT-MINI?    (2004.06.09)

I just can’t get over the effort required to vinyl-wrap a Mini to advertise waste management. (And what a transparent tax write-off!)

Will it fit in a dumpster?