Steve Spillman

is a good friend of yours.
He is also the community manager @GroupMe.

tumblr: rss  ask me anything
contact: twitter  facebook  email
work: groupme  re:tweet  dowser  resume
  
charlietodd: Four years ago, Daniel Bejar received an effusive e-mail from a man in southern Ontario, a self-described “musical enthusiast”; apparently, the man had meant to reach a different Daniel Bejar, a singer and songwriter from Vancouver who leads a band called Destroyer. Bejar studied up on Bejar. “I was, like, all right—we’re going to share this for the rest of our lives,” Bejar said. “He’s not going to stop making music, and I’m not going to stop making art. But it took a while for me to figure out what to do.” This is what Bejar did: He grew his hair into a frizzy mane, and he grew a beard, and then he set about re-creating some of the most widely circulated images of Bejar the musician, who has frizzy hair and a beard. Their faces aren’t identical—Bejar the artist has a more assertive brow and a narrower face—but the resemblance in the images is pretty close. He called his project “The Googlegänger,” and he put his work online. So far, at least two reviews of the new Destroyer album, “Kaputt,” have been accompanied by images of Bejar instead of Bejar.  This project is awesome.  Read the full story in The New Yorker.  Check out the artist Daniel Bejar’s other projects on his site.  His NYC subway map prank is especially good.  Oh and to get the full effect, be sure to Google Image Search “Daniel Bejar.”

charlietodd:

Four years ago, Daniel Bejar received an effusive e-mail from a man in southern Ontario, a self-described “musical enthusiast”; apparently, the man had meant to reach a different Daniel Bejar, a singer and songwriter from Vancouver who leads a band called Destroyer. Bejar studied up on Bejar. “I was, like, all right—we’re going to share this for the rest of our lives,” Bejar said. “He’s not going to stop making music, and I’m not going to stop making art. But it took a while for me to figure out what to do.”

This is what Bejar did: He grew his hair into a frizzy mane, and he grew a beard, and then he set about re-creating some of the most widely circulated images of Bejar the musician, who has frizzy hair and a beard. Their faces aren’t identical—Bejar the artist has a more assertive brow and a narrower face—but the resemblance in the images is pretty close. He called his project “The Googlegänger,” and he put his work online. So far, at least two reviews of the new Destroyer album, “Kaputt,” have been accompanied by images of Bejar instead of Bejar. 

This project is awesome.  Read the full story in The New Yorker.  Check out the artist Daniel Bejar’s other projects on his site.  His NYC subway map prank is especially good.  Oh and to get the full effect, be sure to Google Image Search “Daniel Bejar.”

Posted
|| home

Notes:

  1. extraface reblogged this from charlietodd
  2. unlikelywords reblogged this from kayfabe
  3. mrspete reblogged this from charlietodd
  4. robbyattacks reblogged this from charlietodd
  5. thefiascomaster reblogged this from oldfamiliarway and added:
    I find this delightful.
  6. culturite reblogged this from kayfabe and added:
    Will the Real Dan Bejar Please Stand Up?...What a stellar project.
  7. popquizkid reblogged this from oldfamiliarway and added:
    Um, I found out about this on accident last night while I was going through the Things Organized Neatly Tumblr and...
  8. themightyif reblogged this from oldfamiliarway
  9. stevespillman reblogged this from charlietodd
  10. abedinthemorning reblogged this from tanya77
  11. oldfamiliarway reblogged this from shmemson
  12. shmemson reblogged this from kayfabe
  13. kayfabe reblogged this from tanya77
  14. rocketcityrebel reblogged this from cvxn
  15. cvxn reblogged this from tanya77
  16. benrodgers said: awesome

← older post
newer post →
adapted from If This, Then Theme by Elisha Rene, powered by Tumblr.