Comments on: (BB Video) Send Me a Link: The Art of Cassandra C. Jones

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

There are lots of artists and corporations doing things with found photography and footage, Pfeiffer and Microsoft being in that pool. There is also Fred Tomaselli and Joachim Scchmid. I think Jones holds her own though. She has definitely got her own style.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

She also designed the cover of the Bell Orchestre album “As Seen Through Windows”, and made a video for them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1P0ACCaE4w

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is great! it also reminds me of the AS-FOUND.NET project that was showcased at the Grok Institute in London

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

THIS CHICK IS SO AWESOME!! I’M TELLING EVERYONE!

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

fantastic art! thank you, xeni for pointing us to this!!!!

By: infinit_zero

infinit_zero — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Was this pre-Photosynth? (photosynth.net)

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

If you’re just a spammer, you’re an exceptionally poor one.

You only think that because you never get to see the spam for Chinese-made farm equipment.

By: Dean Putney

Dean Putney — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Oh sweet, she went to CMU. (Wow, I can’t believe that’s my first reaction).

By: jfrancis

jfrancis — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The videos remind me of a guy I knew who used TinEye.com to search his photo of the full moon. When TinEye found hundreds of ‘matches’ he became convinced that the others were all using his photo, only changing the clouds, trees, and other surrounding objects.

By: slida

slida — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Really like her stuff. Interesting.

By: Joyuna

Joyuna — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Fascinating… Great video, thanks for bringing this artist to my attention.

By: wendyfr

wendyfr — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Wow! True creativity. It’s amazing that people can all look at the same thing, but one person sees it differently. She’s a real artist.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

@#9, as testament to how truly great this episode and its subject were, you said “best use of 5 minutes,” but the episode is 10 minutes long! I thought the guest and the episode were superb also.

By: Gary K

Gary K — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Wonderful stuff!!

But I think she’s mistaken in her theory about why there are more photos of the waxing moon than the waning moon. A more likely explanation is that a waxing moon will be high in the sky before midnight, when many people are still awake, whereas a waning moon will ride high during the predawn hours.

By: feedback47

feedback47 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is such a wonderful display of creativity in a world full of redundancy and mediocrity.

“Cheerleader crotch shots… the perfect combination between American family values and pornography.” Brilliant!

By: gruben

gruben — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Great stuff. Probably one of the more effective commentaries on the internet/digital culture that I’ve seen recently in art. She has an awkward habit of looking at the camera though.

By: IamInnocent

IamInnocent — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

One of the greatest BBVideo for sure thanks to a skillful combination of rare elements: rare that an interviewee can address the camera directly with such ease, rare that an artist can speak of her art so… flowingly, rare creativity which leads to a comment on our collective lives of a, yes, rare intelligence and, sigh, even rarer accuracy. One of the best use of 5 minutes of my life I’ve had the chance to make.

Good job madame X and team.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I did enjoy the vids, if anyone’s into her “creative” style they should also check out Paul Pfeiffer’s “John 3:16″ (2000)… seeable here…
http://www.moma.org/explore/multimedia/audios/35/817
http://www.pbs.org/art21/slideshow/?slide=307&artindex=62
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Also don’t miss the inspirational tribute to american morality: “Frank Film” (1974) by F.Mouris …
http://www.ubu.com/film/mouris.html

By: Xeni Jardin

Xeni Jardin — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Heh, funny that #8 and #9 are at odds over the interviewee’s presence.

I don’t typically critique the camera presence of our guests, but I’ll just say I’m with #9. She is a genuinely interesting person, doing innovative and thoughtful work, and she was relaxed and engaging on-camera.

I am so pleased that so many of you felt like this was a particularly good Boing Boing video episode, and even more pleased that it introduced you to the work of an artist we’ve been fans of for some time!

By: feralman

feralman — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Here’s an artist who has me thinking differently about images and use of materials. Great one!

By: Little John

Little John — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

OULEE09 @#11 and #12 (although maybe not for long, in which case, folks, feel free to ignore or delete this post, too): What Web site do you think you're on? What medications do you think you're on? Or are you just a link spammer? If you're just a spammer, you're an exceptionally poor one.

By: Pantograph

Pantograph — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

#8,#9 perhaps the camera operator was really hot?

By: victoriaskincare

victoriaskincare — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Cassandra has a beautiful expansive mind.

By: abenamer

abenamer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This kind of work has been done before by artist Paul Pfeiffer. Xeni, please interview him and present some of his video work on Boing Boing. You’ll be surprised to learn he’s being doing this stuff since the 90s.