h a l f b a k e r yClearly this is a metaphor for something.
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Not real ones of course... just laminated versions of things that have been
flattened out. They don't have to be animals either. The artist Cornelia
Parker made an excellent piece of work out of a set of musical
instruments that had been run over by a steam roller. See link.
Breathless
http://www.cambridg...mages/P2262143e.jpg
Cornelia Parker [xenzag, Mar 18 2009]
Baked
http://www.mikiemetric.com/Book.html
All you have to do is use a picture of roadkill... and this service lets you use pictures of just about anything. [21 Quest, Mar 18 2009]
Good ol' southern roadkill
http://travel.websh...1280060062920jcnWQL
[21 Quest, Mar 18 2009]
Full-color, photograph bookmarks
http://www.tbs-sale...category.asp?id=111
[21 Quest, Mar 18 2009]
Here's another one.
http://www.ameripro...ookmark-p-4205.html
Scroll down just a little way and there's a spot where you can upload whatever artwork you want to put on these bookmarks. [21 Quest, Mar 18 2009]
ahem.
http://www.flickr.c...os/jutta/202397487/
[jutta, Mar 18 2009]
Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book
http://www.amazon.c...Book/dp/1857933362#
This could use a Road Kill Book Mark. [Amos Kito, Mar 18 2009]
Scratch and Sniff card
http://fadingad.wor...cratch-sniff-cards/
from the John Waters masterpiece "Polyester" (I actually have one of these cards and it still works) [xenzag, Mar 19 2009]
[link]
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I wants a flattened half-crossaint for mine, please |
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I think bookmarks exist that let you insert your own pictures. And I know you can download the pictures off the web and print them. Nothing new here, Xen. Sorry... |
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i like this. a nice flattened armadillo from Oklahoma, perhaps...[+] |
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The tools to create an idea does not necessitate the idea, 21. Sorry... |
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My point, daseva, is that because services already exist that let you order a bookmark with pictures of *anything*, a service like the one proposed here , which only does pictures of *one* thing (flattened objects), is obsolete and pointless. |
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If you want a bookmark of, say, a flattened trumpet or basketball, all you have to do is Google Search it, find the image you want, then send that image to a custom bookmark maker (like the one I linked to) and you've got it made. |
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My point, 21, is that you can make just about anything with the pieces of earth all scattered about. It's a difference of degree between the earth and the helpful internet page, and so, in my opinion, it's irrelevant what you bring up, because it, or some variant, could be stated towards any idea. So, just ditch the whole site then? Me thinks not. |
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The idea exists more for it's original artistic value than any sort of functional novelty. Art flies here with flying colors, usually. |
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My point, daseva, is that this is baked art. Baked art usually gets shot down in flames. |
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I can take a picture of midget doing yoga on a bed of bananas in front of a new york sunrise whenever I want, but I haven't done it yet. I'm glad I'm making myself clear. |
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Bakable art, where's your head at? Bakable art, poor poor bakable art getting scolded for being possible. Some nearsightednessness I think, but It's fine that's part of being here, so go ahead, Questions, if that's your real name, only do art that can't be done! |
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I'm saying only do art that hasn't *been* done. This has *been* done! Give it a rest already. |
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Is that a suggestion? I doubt you're ready to get demanding. |
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No, this isn't baked. (Not on an industrial scale, anyway.) The existence of generic photo bookmarks doesn't take away from this idea, no more than the existence of generic photo reproduction technologies obviates painting as an art. |
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How does it not, Jutta? Go to a generic-photo bookmark maker, submit a photo of roadkill or something else that has been flattened, and you've got a Road Kill Book Mark. |
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Perhaps I'm missing something. How is this idea different from existing bookmark services? |
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Even without the photo service, people can draw and use scissors! How is a roadkill bookmark different from a bookmark that has a drawing of roadkill on laminated plastic? |
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Well, it' isn't. It's on a different level. The roadkill is content; the technology, be it handmade or photographic, is not. Xenzag has invented content; you're arguing that the technology to realize it exists. That's not the issue. |
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(This is the same point daseva was trying to make above.) |
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Well my question still remains. What is it that I'm missing? How does this idea differ from existing services? Is the idea for a service that keeps photos of various flattened objects on file? If so, such databases exist. What is it that I'm missing? I'm not trying to be contrary, jutta. I just want to know what separates this idea from those that already exist. |
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Google-search flattened objects, or photos of flattened objects. Google roadkill photos. Databases of such photos already exist. So what's new about the proposed content? |
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It's not an idea for a service. It's an idea for a kind of bookmark. |
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//It's not an idea for a service. It's an idea for a kind of bookmark.// |
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Ok, that's where I'm confused. Is the bookmark shaped differently? Is it shaped like the objects in the photo? That's where I feel Xen was a little vague (or maybe I'm a little dense). |
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I really like this one, it's cute without being cloying, clever without being too gimmicy and it's original and fun - all subjective qualities granted, but for me it really works! |
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[21Q] Yes, you can create your own bookmark with a particular photo on it, but I could imagine a line of roadkill bookmarks making a viable business proposition. In addition the idea works as a sort of joke-made-real - the bookmark is something that is inherently flat, so is roadkill and that play-on-connectedness has a kind of surprising ability to delight - it's that generation of delight that makes this more than just another "make a bookmark that looks like x" which again, is kind of a subjective thing - and you either get it, or you don't - but this is one of [xenzag]'s ones that I get. |
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To expand on zen_tom's explanation, there's traditionally a connection between bookmarks and pressed things - typically, pressed flowers or leaves. There are lots of bookmarks that have pressed flowers glued onto them. Roadkill is another pressed thing, but more redneck/edgy/macho. The contrast between that and the high-culture activity of reading is what makes this joke work for me. |
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So, one way of doing this well is to make it look as if real road kill was, or was used to make, the bookmark. Another way is to artistically evoke road kill - have a wood or linoleum cut of the roadkill animal, say. See link. |
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Oooh... I get it. Thanks for the link. I thought it was for a typical rectangle-shaped bookmark with a photo of a flattened object on it. Sorry about that. I really just didn't understand what this was... [+] |
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I'm liking the depth of discussion as to the idea's novelty. Last time I checked, it's extremely difficult to reason through humor, or delight, and yet here it feels easy; or smart folks have made it so. |
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[+] an excellent way of ensuring privacy while engrossed in a book on the train. |
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I wonder... how about having a little rubber animal, like a mouse, rat, or garter snake, designed to look real that automatically inflates itself (like a self-inflating whoopee cushion)when there is no pressure on it? When the book is closed upon said rubber animal, it deflates with a pained-sounding squeal and the protruding end twitches a bit as the air is forced out of it. |
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When the book is re-opened, the rush of air into it makes a relieved, desperate gasping sound. |
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I'll have a roadkill scorpion please. |
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I never really had a hankering to get a tattoo, but if I ever did I figure it'd be a squished scorpion on the sole of one of my feet. |
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2 fries, that's hardcore. I like it! Here's a bun for your anno [+] |
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...so no one has mentioned the *scratch and smell* roadkill bookmark yet... |
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To continue on the theme of pressed things. |
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How about a miniature pair of badly-creased trousers? By the end of the book, they would emerge perfectly pressed. |
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[xandram] see scratch and sniff link |
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Ricshaw, would that happen via some sort of chemical reaction in the paper, dissolving the image of the wrinkled pants, slowly exposing the pressed ones? |
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