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Parsons Alumni Exhibition

October 15, 2015 by Dan Redding Leave a Comment

Here’s an awkward photo of me at the opening of the 2015 Parsons Alumni Exhibition! My website HauntedToasters.com is on display in the gallery at Parsons right now. I hacked an emulator of the ubiquitous nineties screensaver ‘Flying Toasters’ and inserted images of a ‘subliminal’ demon face from The Exorcist into it. The site is part of my series ‘Contact the Webmaster.’

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Filed Under: Photos, Web Design

Photos: Greenpoint and Governor’s Island

July 30, 2012 by Dan Redding Leave a Comment

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Ghostly Graffiti

June 20, 2011 by Dan Redding Leave a Comment

Ghostly graffiti on a utility pipe, midtown Manhattan.

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Something is SERIOUSLY Wrong with this Stock Photo.

August 3, 2010 by Dan Redding Leave a Comment


Today, a design client sent me a batch of stock photos to use in a project. I clicked through the images: smiling faces, fine folks from all walks of life picnicking in harmony, a stunning blonde in a wheelchair, et cetera. Then I stumbled on this one. At first it appeared to be just another photo of a perfect family immersed in rapturous joy, but then I noticed demon boy in Daddy’s loving arms. This abominable creature is not only utterly evil but downright meddlesome. That’s what gets me. There he is, aiming his glare of menacing gloom directly at me. Rubbing his hands together with ire. Not exactly appropriate material for a bank brochure. I put in on the cover anyway.

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The Traffic Light Tree

September 26, 2009 by Dan Redding Leave a Comment

This bizarre public sculpture is ‘The Traffic Light Tree’ by Pierre Vivant, and it is located near the Canary Wharf tube stop in London. It is in the middle of a ’roundabout’ (traffic circle) but apparently it doesn’t cause a ten-car pile-up every five minutes, as I might’ve guessed. It looks really eerie blinking in the darkness at night.

traffic_light

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Art Students in the Tate Modern, London

September 26, 2009 by Dan Redding Leave a Comment

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