While writing a post about the buses themselves, I found an entire site dedicated to Argentina's buses, for background. That's where I spotted LA HISTORIA DEL BOLETO, and found way more tickets than I could have possibly brought home ...









L. Eckstein is a NYC-based graphic designer and artist. When she had a job that came with an office, all matter of visual interest could be tacked up on her wall, or walked down the hall to be shared with a co-worker. Her job no longer comes with an office. This is now her wall—and her hall.
*All my eye and Betty Martin means that something is total and complete nonsense. It is found in British English from the eighteenth century on, but is hardly known today.--World Wide Words
An online collection and art experiment that pays homage to vintage argentinian bus tickets.
ReplyDeleteIn the times when this tickets were in use, people used to collect them. The big goal was to have the entire collection, from ticket number 00000 to number 99999.
This collection was created with using NodeBox (an application for generative art) and a python script to automate the upload of tickets to flickr.
The script that creates the tickets continuously picks a random ticket number, if that number was not picked previously, the ticket was created and uploaded to flickr. The entire collection took about one month and a week to complete.
Here you can see the resulting collection:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alomar_camarada/
Regards
AC