Cheers to the Global Village
One of my current, among many, obsessions is to conduct Google Image Searches of my artwork. It's a pastime that never fails to entertain, and sometimes the results are truly shocking. It basically works by uploading an image to Google's search engine. Then, through some sort of computations that must involve a staggering amount of data processing, it will scan the world for that image wherever it may exist. Since everything in the digital domain exists as a sequence of either ones or zeroes, the program must therefore hunt until the particular sequence that makes up an image appears somewhere. The awesome technical prowess of these information systems can only be imagined. Either that or it's magic. Since I've been an image supplier to both Shutterstock and Getty Images, these searches have yielded some fascinating results. Recently I fed my painting "1938 Hudson" into this relentless bloodhound of a program. It found all the usual hits,...