Mona Lisa Overdrive (click for full set)

At some point on the way back from a trip to Paris, having done the typical tourist thing, my camera’s memory card somehow got corrupted. Whether it was the loose magnet in my camera case, the airport x-ray, some devious rogue spirit-AI, or my camera’s own abject boredom of tourism and a desperate cry for individuality among the thousands of other cameras taking the exact same photos, when I got home and plugged in, I found half the files throwing up question marks.



When I attempted data recovery using a program called Zero Assumption Recovery, the results were… interesting.



I called the collection Mona Lisa Overdrive, but the Versailles and Louvre ones make me think of William Gibson’s Villa Straylight–twisted, fragmenting decadence via glitchy terminals.

(Source: Flickr / fatmanintweed)