OK, so I lied about leaving this blog for a while. I meant it at the time though. Following on from my post about Fail Whale sculptures, and before that a man dressed as a website, here are two more instances of my favourite trend.

First, a man who sculpts market data in wood and metal:

(Via Information Aesthetics)

And, more locally, the Really Interesting Group has produced a broadsheet publication of Things Our Friends Have Written On The Internet.

I wrote a piece over at if:book a while back about BibliOdyssey and the journey of its images between tangible (analogue) and intangible (digitised) form. You might argue that it’s no more interesting than making a cuddly Cthulhu toy; as the dominant cultural form is increasingly the internet, so internet memes are starting to appear in the flesh.

(Not that Dread Cthulhu is an internet meme…Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn, FFS).

But I find it encouraging as well because it argues for a direction to web culture that’s not quite the techno-determinism beloved of the transhuman brigade, all slavering for the day when we can upload our consciousnesses to the web. It suggests rather that what we all really want to do is download the internet into our reality.