Vee Hua 華婷婷Artists! The secret is out now, for everyone to actually see. A recent influx of works have certainly inferred that mirroring an image is satisfying to the mind’s eye, and that mirroring it and reversing it is arguably even more satisfying. Something about symmetry just fits in snugly into compartments of the brain, like a file cabinet of matching images. Well, Geographer is really, really exploiting this with his new track, “Kaleidoscope,” which comes with a phone app and website that takes the aforementioned satisfying image-creation clauses and executes them.
Admittedly, I was a bit skeptical when I first saw that the track was named “Kaleidoscope.” It seems a bit too overt. And am still skeptical, considering you get your image on the website if you hash-tag an image on Flickr or Twitter with #geographer (social media genius or a bit too overt?). Still, though, the point remains that this is just good wholesome fun. Here’s a miniature gallery below, which seriously proves that just about any photo dragged through this filter is immediately satisfying. It’s a love it or hate it thing, but I imagine that it will encourage artists who manually do a lot of this kind of work will soon find it too mainstream and look towards alternative patterns of art-making…
You can view the rest of this application at myth.geographermusic.com… where you can also listen to your record, if you don’t get overly distracted by the endlessly entertaining app.
Oh right, and about the music… I guess all there is to say is that there is an upcoming Modern Art tour, which begins March 1st, with Geographer, Miniature Tigers, The Chain Gang of 1974, Pretty & Nice and SPEAK…
MODERN ART TOUR DATES
3/1/12 Tractor Tavern Seattle, WA
3/2/12 Branx Portland, OR
3/3/12 The Independent San Francisco, CA
3/4/12 Troubadour Los Angeles(West Hollywood), CA
3/6/12 The Casbah San Diego, CA
3/7/12 Club Congress Tucson, AZ
3/8/12 The Crescent Ballroom Phoenix, AZ
3/16/12 The Prophet Bar Dallas, TX
3/17/12 Fitzgerald’s Houston, TX
3/19/12 The Social Orlando, FL
3/20/12 The Masquerade-Purgatory Atlanta, GA
3/21/12 Nightlight Chapel Hill, NC
3/22/12 DC9 Washington D.C.
3/23/12 Milkboy Philadelphia, PA
3/24/12 Brighton Music Hall Boston(Bridgton), MA
3/25/12 Bowery Ballroom New York, NY
3/27/12 Club AE Pittsburg, PA
3/28/12 Grog Shop Cleveland Heights, OH
3/29/12 The Intersection Grand Rapids, MI
3/30/12 Schubas Tavern Chicago, IL
3/31/12 Off Broadway St. Louis, CO
4/2/12 The Black Sheep Colorado Springs, CO
4/3/12 Marquis Theatre Denver, CO
4/5/12 Beauty Bar Las Vegas, NV
Jake Renn
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