This is not a distorted digital photo - it's a cabinet that's been intricately carved to look like one.
Created by Italian designer Ferruccio Laviani's for furniture brand Fratelli Boffi, the Good Vibrations storage unit was carved from oak by a CNC machine.
http://www.dezeen.com/2013/03/14/good-vibrations-distorted-cabinet-ferruccio-laviani-fratelli-boffi/
Created by Silvio Lorusso and Sebastian Schmieg, 56 Broken Kindle Screens is a print on demand book that consists of found photos depicting broken Kindle screens. The book takes as its starting point the aesthetic of broken E Ink displays and serves as an examination into the reading device’s materiality. As the screens break, they become collages composed of different pages, cover illustrations and interface elements.
http://www.creativeapplications.net/objects/kindle-as-an-art-object-two-projects/
We all love broken things. WAIT WHAT?! Yes, you read that correctly. You may have noticed this thing called "glitch", where people purposely push machines to malfunction, creating fascinating "mistakes". But instead of being frustrated and disdainful of these errors (like we usually do when our technology fails mid-workflow, grrr) we find them to be bizarrely beautiful! Why are we so interested in these images, music, or objects that are structurally or formally broken? Watch the episode and find out!
Glitches are the frustrating byproduct of technology gone awry. Wildly scrambled images, frozen blue screens, and garbled sounds signify moments where we want to throw our expensive computer products out the window. Many artists and programmers, however, have embraced these crisis moments and discovered beauty in the glitch. By hacking familiar systems, they intentionally cause glitches, and manipulate them to create art. Enjoying the aesthetics of technological mistakes defies the notion that technology and entertainment has to be a seamless experience. Most importantly, glitch artists reveal a certain soulfulness that emerges when complex streams of information, visual media, and our own lives converge in the chaos of the glitch.
http://www.pbs.org/arts/gallery/off-book-%7C-season-two/offbook-s2e11-glitch-art/
