Who Knew Spam Could Be so Beautiful?
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MIT Media Lab grad student Alex Dragulescu is a Romanian visual artist who extracts information and patterns from spam emails, blogs, computer viruses, and more and creates visualizations of the information.
Check out his Spam Architecture series, 3-D models of junk email, and his Spam Plants (shown below), developed using the ASCII values found in the text of spam messages.
Comments
James
Thu, 04/09/2009 8:48pm
Lol this guy is nuts!
This reminds me of a guy i know who raps about the internet.
amarcott
Wed, 03/11/2009 5:41pm
Glad you enjoyed it!
spamcarnival
Wed, 03/11/2009 11:56am
I love this! I write a blog about spam emails. I'd like to link to you.
emkathan
Mon, 03/02/2009 11:16am
Fascinating. One man's trash is another man's plant!