First in the Shredded Series from 2009. These sets keep on coming. In the process of holiday shopping I passed by many of these locations where these images come from and felt sadness that I haven’t shot anything like this recently.

I did get a shot of a nice paper piece located in one of the advertisement frames. Unfortunately it was with my iPhone. When I downloaded the image back at home it looked like crap. Why do you suck as a camera iPhone?

Am I the only person that feels it fails as a camera? I should research and see if people are doing fun things with it. I know I sometimes get good shots, but the success rate is far lower than on my Canon point and shoot.

The only thing I enjoy shooting are panoramics. When they glitch it can be really fun. People or cars moving against the direction of the panorama are truncated. Or sometimes the panorama isn’t level and trails off into stair step failure. All fun ideas.

Failing flourescent lights do weird things in panoramas too. Brown bleeding that looks like film developing disasters. I have sets of both I want to share here.

I bet the high def slow motion video would be fun too from iO7. Of course Apple left my model out for that update. Post Steve Jobs Apple is scary.

I digress as usual. These shots are more aggressively painterly than previous sets. I know that you will catch that the first picture’s text is upside down. It’s what happens when they put the boards up without care. Not an editing failure.

This is quintessential New York. Destroyed advertisements on Post No Bills blue boards. It’s what is really happening in the city. Not the idealized cheesiness of graffiti. Just whatever they are trying to sell me versus entropy.

It only looks good once it’s shredded. Before that it’s just oppressive and lacks beauty and elegance.