Picture Monica Lewinsky w a cigar, Hitler in a bunker, the Beatles w their lawyers. It’s all here. Or rather it’s all in your mind… So what does a book look like that is targeted at visual artists and creatives, yet has exactly ZERO pictures and isn’t a how-to? Well, it looks like well-known photo agent Frank Meo’s latest personal project called Mind Prints. A hardback book laden w typography. From the intro:
We all collect images we’ve seen in the course of our days. But there’s even more: how aout all the images we created ourselves, in our minds, mages of things we haven’t actually seen, and of which no photos exist, things that the paparazzimissed; images that we created based on media accounts, water cooler discussions. What if somebody curated those images, strung them up in a gallery show for you to walk through and see, clearly and consciously..?
The book is an amazing series of words, phrases, and ideas pulled from pop culture that will either blow your mind or get it racing. Click thru the 10 or so slides in the gallery above to get a sample – brilliant, simple, evocative.
The book is available here at Frank’s site. And, bonus here for New Yorkers…the Art Director’s Club of NY will be presenting the full collection in their gallery for a 6 week run. The opening is this Thursday, January 19th. RSVP to rsvp@adcglobal.org or go to Frank’s Facebook page (first come first serve) if you’d like to attend.
I like the concept for sure. This could be the new porno.
as any creative art work goes, you always have to start with something visual. I don’t suppose you have to see it in a defined shape.
You can’t always put a $ onto every single art piece.
If by purchasing a concept with these pages on a recycle paper with no hard binding but going through them at the most random times in our mind then producing something of our own. That is money worth spend isn’t it.
The media isn’t the key. Its what the concept would eventually evolved to that counts.
would I buy the book?
would I want to meet the person behind the concept?
wouldn’t it be great if I am able to visualize all of my ideas in my art creation process?
I think this is the start of a great idea which will lead to something else (what that is, I can’t claim to know). However, it just doesn’t speak to me and I’m not really feeling the impact.
It does, however, interest me in learning more about Frank Meo and what he does. If that’s the point, mission accomplished.
The concept is very cool, don’t get me wrong… and I love history and have many times thought of things just like this in my head. However, to call this art? I would be hard pressed to find more than 1 in 100 even understand this, let alone purchase it. Seems to me that anyone can make a dollar with any type of idea today.
On the other hand, love your stuff Chase, keep up the good work.
The mix of history, news, and rumors, and gags dilutes the impact a bit.