[Update: 28-Jan-08: The creator of these pictures has decided to remove them; you can read his rationale on Flickr. If you look around at the various sites that linked to the original pictures, you can find a few more samples. -Adam] If you have a few minutes to spare, hop over to Flickr to see PaulTheWineGuy's set of famous works of art, all cleverly modified with digital artifacts of today's electronic culture. Rodin's "The Thinker" appears with a Windows hourglass wait cursor, for instance, and HTML table tags are superimposed on a classic Mondrian. Then there's Jasper Johns's 1961 map of the United States - complete with Google Maps controls. A few of the images are a bit more subtle (and show a Windows sensibility): Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V have been added to Andy Warhol's "100 Cans" to apply the current concept of replication to Warhol's work, and a much-damaged work by Antonello da Messina has broken-image rectangles overlaid on the parts that lack paint, as though a Web browser had failed to load those parts. The visual puns and trenchant revisions are both amusing and, I suspect, telling commentary on both our electronic culture and the original works.  Copyright © 2008 Adam C. Engst. TidBITS is copyright © 2008 TidBITS Publishing Inc. If you're reading this article on a Web site other than TidBITS.com, please let us know, because if it was republished without attribution, by a commercial site, or in modified form, it violates our Creative Commons License. Used to working with Microsoft Office Visio on a PC but have a Mac?ConceptDraw 7 is professional technical drawing and businessgraphics software. It supports Leopard and can import Visio files.TidBITS readers save $50!   ...

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