Wed Jan 30, 2013, 08:48 PM

n2doc (26,133 posts)

An Architect Gone Mad: Mysterious Buildings Assembled from Found Photographs by Jim Kazanjian

Without the use of a camera Portland-based artist Jim Kazanjian sifts through a library of some 25,000 images from which he carefully selects the perfect elements to digitally assemble mysterious buildings born from the mind of an architect gone mad. While the architectural and organic pieces seem wildly random and out of place, Kazanjian brings just enough cohesion to each structure to suggest a fictional purpose or story that begs to be told. You can see much more of his work over on Facebook, and prints are available at 23 Sandy Gallery.

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http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/01/jim-kazanjian/

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An Architect Gone Mad: Mysterious Buildings Assembled from Found Photographs by Jim Kazanjian (Original post)	n2doc	Jan 2013	OP
These are crazy, and without a camera!	CaliforniaPeggy	Jan 2013	#1
Almost	progressoid	Feb 2013	#7
Very very cool!	Demo_Chris	Jan 2013	#2
Incredible.	Joe Shlabotnik	Jan 2013	#3
Top one there could be from MYST!. . . n/t	annabanana	Jan 2013	#4
That palm tree in No. 2 is a hoot. But my favorite is no.3.	Peace Patriot	Jan 2013	#5
Build them and I will buy a condo in one. nt	SDjack	Feb 2013	#6
Reminds me of this	sakabatou	Feb 2013	#8
Kind of reminds me of Steampunk.	Historic NY	Feb 2013	#9
The second one reminds me of Xanadu in Citizen Kane	nuxvomica	Feb 2013	#10

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Wed Jan 30, 2013, 08:53 PM

CaliforniaPeggy (104,006 posts)

1. These are crazy, and without a camera!

They almost look livable...

Very cool.

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Sat Feb 2, 2013, 10:07 AM

progressoid (27,340 posts)

7. Almost

but not quite

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Thu Jan 31, 2013, 02:11 AM

Demo_Chris (2,433 posts)

2. Very very cool!

I imagine if you had enough money you could have this guy actually build one.

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Thu Jan 31, 2013, 02:57 AM

Joe Shlabotnik (2,235 posts)

3. Incredible.

Reminds me of my favorite book when I was a little kid, "The House That Beebo Built".
http://www.amazon.ca/The-House-That-Beebo-Built/dp/0224010913

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Thu Jan 31, 2013, 02:43 PM

annabanana (45,588 posts)

4. Top one there could be from MYST!. . . n/t

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Thu Jan 31, 2013, 03:03 PM

Peace Patriot (21,536 posts)

5. That palm tree in No. 2 is a hoot. But my favorite is no.3.

What a commentary on crowded urban life in the 21st century, built on rotten, falling piles, poised over an earthquake-ruined highway, about to be swallowed up in that Great Crack, yet somehow perky and cute.

I've seen hills upon hills upon hills, between L.A. and San Diego, that look just like that--perky & cute piled on perky & cute--except that you can't see the peril beneath it all, not just of the next Big One, but of a deliberately ruined planet, massively destroyed biodiversity, deliberately poisonous food, toxic commercialism, democracy rendered pointless and delusionary, ominous clouds from Carl Sagan's "The Cold and the Dark" nightmare swallowing the sun, Mount Everests of garbage-- plastics, rubber tires, dirty diapers, nuclear fuel rods--dumped "somewhere else," and that whatever it is out in the sea (an oil rig?) burning, burning, burning....

Yikes! I'm scaring myself!

Powerful image.

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Sat Feb 2, 2013, 08:56 AM

SDjack (1,066 posts)