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Badboard
billboard that matures in the sun | |
Badboard is printed using two different types of ink.
Over time, strong sunshine bleaches out certain letters and parts of letters to reveal a more strident message.
It's best to view the illustration which should work as a looped gif showing "before" and "after."
Badboard gif
https://www.tumblr....nd-you?source=share [xenzag, Feb 01 2024]
Tippi Hedren
Birds_20Who_20Love_20Noire [xenzag, Feb 01 2024]
Let Me Have Termites About me
The_20Termites_20Wh...erate_20Shakespeare [xenzag, Feb 04 2024]
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[+] Could also be done with heat sensitive ink on a mug etc. Curious that hasn't been done before. |
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I have posted (and made) several pieces that display messages which alter over time based attrition or accumulation. |
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//Could also be done with heat sensitive ink on a mug etc. Curious that hasn't been done before.// |
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That's been done to death. I had just such a mug, it advertised a DNA polymerase or something. When you put hot water in it, the image changed in some way to show how much better their product was; I don't remember the details. |
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At present, interesting unintended consequences occur from uneven fading/wear in modern building materials interacting with climate disruption. This idea is 'tended' consequences, like planting a tree whose fruit you will never taste. |
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I'd invest in a company making construction materials that fade out to reveal community-building public service messages like 'Be Kind To Each Other', or 'If You Are Reading This, Thank Your Teacher'. |
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Slow-motion thought disruption [+] |
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There's no need to keep it so similar. In your example the yellow paint over the horizontal lines in "fuck" have faded, no? Then the whole message and picture can chance arbitrarily. |
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Pre-treat areas (could be text, could be image) so that they decompose quickly and make voids in the material. As it weathers and ages the underlying image appears. |
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Ive posted several ideas re the process of gradual image production/eradication - see link to one of them. It's something I'm interest in and have made other work about. |
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Termites are the perfect sculptors for slow production and unknowable results. Baited areas or softer/harder material reveal the easter egg. They got into a balsa box and left high-contrast furrows. I like the edible resist for the bird/Hendron project. |
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If you angle the board and keep the perches horizontal you could make the image in bird shit. |
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//Termites are the perfect sculptors// see link.... |
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