How Cool Is This?!

Since I haven't actually read this book, I'm really just sharing my blind enthusiasm for this discovery. The Playbook, by Alex S. MacLean is chock full o' aerial photographs of amusement parks! The disorienting angle on environments that are disorienting to begin with opens it up to a host of new readings: biology, machinery or circuitry, and abstract painting. In this case, as details fall in and out of recognition, the overhead view fluctuates between the authority of the God's eye-view (the plan view), and something completely place-less and wildly strange. The radical cropping, like the fragmentation of the kaleidoscopic-city artists, contributes to the disorientation.