Common Folk Collective » argentina http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog Common Folk Doing Uncommon Things Tue, 15 Mar 2016 17:08:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9 Irina Werning- Back to the Future http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/2013/01/irina-werning-back-to-the-future-photo-project/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=irina-werning-back-to-the-future-photo-project http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/2013/01/irina-werning-back-to-the-future-photo-project/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2013 23:02:49 +0000 http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/?p=2628 Lulu Geraldine 1980 & 2010 Bs Aires  Pancho 1983 & 2010, Buenos Aires

Mechi 1990 & 2010 Buenos Aires

Mechi 1990 & 2010 Buenos Aires

Back to the Future isn’t by any means the first project to have someone recreate a photo of themselves from yesteryear as true to form as possible but Irina Werning’s execution here is brilliant. And somehow the merriment of the process is almost palpable.

There’s a lot that could be said about injecting the present into the past or how the more things change the more they stay the same but I’ll spare you and just let you enjoy the photos as they are and leave you to make up your own deep psycho-babble art philosophy.

Make sure to check out part 1 & part 2! She’s also going to be doing more in Tokyo, Korea, and Taiwan so if you live there and want to participate, hit her up.

Found via MeanRed

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]]> http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/2013/01/irina-werning-back-to-the-future-photo-project/feed/ 1 Weapon of Mass Instruction Art Car http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/2012/04/weapon-of-mass-instruction-art-car/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=weapon-of-mass-instruction-art-car http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/2012/04/weapon-of-mass-instruction-art-car/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 05:01:20 +0000 https://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/?p=221 Sometimes people have crazy ideas. Sometimes people have lots of drive. Rarely someone has both. When I come across things like this I actually start to believe we can, as individuals or as a group, really change lives and make living livable. Awesome.

From MakeZine.com-

“Raul Lemesoff, an Argentine art-car artist, has taken a 1979 Ford Falcon that used to belong to the Argentine armed forces and turned into a ‘Weapon of Mass Instruction.’ Armed with 900 or so books Lemesoff travels the streets of Buenos Aires and beyond offering free books to all. He sees his ‘Weapon of Mass Instruction’ as a “contribution to peace through literature.”

 

Argentina - Raul Lemesoff(From Raul Lemesoff Flickr)

(From LaughingSquid.com)

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