rgroves – Looking Outwards-06

Random Selection in Random Image by Jan Robert Leegt in not a complicated project. It’s a website that selects a random image from Flickr and makes a selects an area of the image of random size and location. I doubt this project required a great deal of thought or effort, but nevertheless it messes with your mind in a really interesting way. Even though I know the selections were made randomly, my mind has to find some significance to the selection so it fills in information that’s not there. This can create an eerie effect – for example in this picture my mind is telling me that someone is looking out at me from those two dark windows.

It is also interesting how often the random selection looks less random than if someone was trying to make it look random. For example, in this picture the program happened to select the main subject of the picture.

http://www.randomselectioninrandomimage.com/