Site Meter Peculiar Susceptibility: Discovering strange little poetic moments on the Web

Monday, February 2, 2009

Discovering strange little poetic moments on the Web

I've done something delightful to my browser. Michael Day, an artist whose work I esteem in great measure, has put together an exhibit through Add-Art. Add-Art utilizes a firefox plug-in to replace all web ad content with art. Lovely.


Michael Day, Filter 5

So, for instance, yesterday, when I was looking up the last lines of "The Dead," I saw this:



I've noticed that having the ad content replaced changes the quality of the way I read on-line. It's more still; there are fewer moments in which I feel tugged in ten directions.

I've written a small bit of text to go along with the exhibition, which you can read here or here.

2 comments:

randyhate said...

i like this idea very much.
any idea how the interacts with adblocker programs?

Meghan Maguire Dahn said...

Well, thank you.

It works with an ad-blocking plug-in. They have helpful instructions on the site.