Having a Google moment
So the other day I'm looking online for more about the artist Noritoshi Hirakawa, who was mentioned here. There's not a whole lot out there about him. One review of his work published in World Art (Melbourne 1996), by the theorist Catherine Lumby, is entitled "Pubic Image". Quite clever, as one of Hirakawa's shows involved photographs of women he met in Tokyo's streets squatting knickerless in public parks and squares.
But I couldn't find the Lumby article, so I Googled
"pubic+image", kinda wondering what rich mix I'd haul in over the transom.
All but three of the first 50-odd results for that search were typos for "public image" (a few about the band PIL, but most not). It doesn't mean anything, but it's not what I would have expected. Maybe this relates to Jim's open question on the way Google will likely change language. Humor is so un-XML-friendly. Or maybe web-searching is so weirdly literal that we'll just see all our typos immortalized like the strange Cambrian forms of the Burgess Shale.
I got to know Noritoshi during the preparation for and exhibition of that Deitch Projects show. I'm sure he'd be thrilled to think that people are searching for information on him by googling "pubic image." This seems like it could turn into a good game of sorts . . . pick a slightly-askew phrase and then guess whose life story would turn up in the google search.
I reworded my post slightly to reflect that the knickerless women were that way voluntarily and not at the photographer's urging. I swear I read that somewhere but now google's failing me.
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So the other day I'm looking online for more about the artist Noritoshi Hirakawa, who was mentioned here. There's not a whole lot out there about him. One review of his work published in World Art (Melbourne 1996), by the theorist Catherine Lumby, is entitled "Pubic Image". Quite clever, as one of Hirakawa's shows involved photographs of women he met in Tokyo's streets squatting knickerless in public parks and squares. But I couldn't find the Lumby article, so I Googled "pubic+image", kinda wondering what rich mix I'd haul in over the transom.
All but three of the first 50-odd results for that search were typos for "public image" (a few about the band PIL, but most not). It doesn't mean anything, but it's not what I would have expected. Maybe this relates to Jim's open question on the way Google will likely change language. Humor is so un-XML-friendly. Or maybe web-searching is so weirdly literal that we'll just see all our typos immortalized like the strange Cambrian forms of the Burgess Shale.
- bruno 5-09-2003 7:34 pm
I got to know Noritoshi during the preparation for and exhibition of that Deitch Projects show. I'm sure he'd be thrilled to think that people are searching for information on him by googling "pubic image." This seems like it could turn into a good game of sorts . . . pick a slightly-askew phrase and then guess whose life story would turn up in the google search.
- Mike Jackson (guest) 5-09-2003 8:14 pm
I reworded my post slightly to reflect that the knickerless women were that way voluntarily and not at the photographer's urging. I swear I read that somewhere but now google's failing me.
- tom moody 5-09-2003 8:26 pm