The Big Caption (via Kottke)

(Via Kottke)

Adam Richardson’s Invaded Space collection features photographs of troops in Afghanistan and Iraq with characters from the classic Space Invaders video game superimposed over the top.

At first glance you might feel it trivialises the war. On second thoughts, however, if there were any more thought processes involved other than ‘hey, let’s do something cliched’ – it was probably more to do with giving it to the man (the ‘game-playing’ government) than making a mockery of the armed forces.

Space Invader war photography (via Boing Boing)

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Thomas De Bruin has made an alphabet display from sections of Google Earth’s satelite photography. There’s an upper case (as above) and lower case version plus a set of numbers and punctuation – all taken using only Google Earth images of the Netherlands.

Satellite photography alphabet (via Boing Boing)

French artist Vincent Bousserez takes photos of miniature plastic people in normal sized surroundings. There are men climbing to the summit of a human nipple, workmen quarrying a slice of cake, window cleaners traversing a watch face and (my favourite, above) a man mowing a lawn of stubble. The stubble lawn seems to perfectly blur the lines between a father’s adult features and a child’s imagination.

You can see the whole of Bousserez’s collection, called Plastic Life, on Flickr.

Amazing miniature art is a Lilliputian gallery (via Metro)