An Architect Gone Mad: Mysterious Buildings Assembled from Found Photographs by Jim Kazanjian

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Without the use of a camera Portland-based artist Jim Kazanjian sifts through a library of some 25,000 images from which he carefully selects the perfect elements to digitally assemble mysterious buildings born from the mind of an architect gone mad. While the architectural and organic pieces seem wildly random and out of place, Kazanjian brings just enough cohesion to each structure to suggest a fictional purpose or story that begs to be told. You can see much more of his work over on Facebook, and prints are available at 23 Sandy Gallery.

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http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/01/jim-kazanjian/

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. These are crazy, and without a camera!

They almost look livable...

Very cool.

[progressoid]

7. Almost

but not quite

[Demo_Chris]

2. Very very cool!

I imagine if you had enough money you could have this guy actually build one.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

3. Incredible.

Reminds me of my favorite book when I was a little kid, "The House That Beebo Built".
http://www.amazon.ca/The-House-That-Beebo-Built/dp/0224010913

[annabanana]

4. Top one there could be from MYST!. . . n/t

[Peace Patriot]

5. That palm tree in No. 2 is a hoot. But my favorite is no.3.

What a commentary on crowded urban life in the 21st century, built on rotten, falling piles, poised over an earthquake-ruined highway, about to be swallowed up in that Great Crack, yet somehow perky and cute.

I've seen hills upon hills upon hills, between L.A. and San Diego, that look just like that--perky & cute piled on perky & cute--except that you can't see the peril beneath it all, not just of the next Big One, but of a deliberately ruined planet, massively destroyed biodiversity, deliberately poisonous food, toxic commercialism, democracy rendered pointless and delusionary, ominous clouds from Carl Sagan's "The Cold and the Dark" nightmare swallowing the sun, Mount Everests of garbage-- plastics, rubber tires, dirty diapers, nuclear fuel rods--dumped "somewhere else," and that whatever it is out in the sea (an oil rig?) burning, burning, burning....

Yikes! I'm scaring myself!

Powerful image.

[SDjack]

6. Build them and I will buy a condo in one. nt

[sakabatou]

8. Reminds me of this

[Historic NY]

9. Kind of reminds me of Steampunk.

[nuxvomica]

10. The second one reminds me of Xanadu in Citizen Kane

And it also looks like part of the Smithsonian in there. I want to vacation in the third one.

[Katashi_itto]

11. K&R!