couchprojects

• description: order online: http://www.blurb.com/user/store/angiewaller

  "Home of Tycoons," titled after a condominium complex in China, investigates real estate marketing in Beijing during 2004 – only moments before the old city would be completely demolished and replaced by high-rises, stadiums and suburban gated communities.

  Through photo documentation and sampling of poorly translated Chinese to English sales materials, "Tycoons" explores the fantastical side of home ownership in China. An example, the brochure for Beijing's Long Island community declares – "This isn't an age that dare not speak up wealth, this is an age that needs to use wealth to sublime one's life."

  Other residences studied include: MoMA, SOHO and The Home of Tycoons.

  10x8 inches (25x20 cm) 104 pages

• description: Found images of eagles matched with descriptive phrases from Amazon.com music reviews for Enya, Nickel Creek and Dave Matthews Band. This project was a spin off after the many hours of research that went into Data Mining the Amazon.

Long Island Bedroom, 2004; Digital C-Print; 18″ x 24″

• description: Images documenting Beijing neighborhoods that sample from Western architecture.

• description: A flip book of a book turning pages. You can get your own at Printed Matter or follow this link.

Data Mining the Amazon, 2003; book (edition 500) ; 6.5″ x 9″, 60 pages

• description: Book, archival inkjet prints

  This project involved the collection and cross-referencing of a selection of Amazon.com recommendations, resulting in amusing lists of CD recommendations for political conservatives and liberals. The main section of the book is a set of colorful complex diagrams* linking politically “conservative” books with the most popular CDs bought by the same customers. This is juxtaposed with similar lists for a “liberal” audience. The final section of the book presents a direct sampling of Amazon’s “Purchase Circles” and shows items uniquely popular to the US Military, the UN, Arthur Andersen Consulting, Nike and others.