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Tuesday, September 06, 2011 at

Cleaning up

Swiss artist Ursus Wehrli is releasing a new book called The Art of Clean Up, which features photographs of everyday scenes rearranged into organized rows. The sunbathers made me laugh--look at their perpendicular feet! Very neat, indeed. :)

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88 comments:

  1. So creative - what a fun teaching tool! The bowl of fruit is awesome ~ but I think I like the messy sky better! :)

    xoxo michele

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  2. OMG! the neat freak in me is loving this!!

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  3. I love the sandbox one. The little boy seems so disappointed that there is no more mess! :)

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  4. This is really nice.
    I have similar photography ideas for cool series, but I don't have the opportunities to accomplish such things.... such as that beach area shoot!

    It's amazing.

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  5. this is awesome! :)

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  6. I'm totally this way about my house - I even have my books lined up by color on my desk (a tip I got here!) Also, how patient must Ursus Wehrli have been to get the soup shot!?

    Becca

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  7. haha! so amazing!

    if only it was that easy.

    cheers to 'sometimes' messy lives!

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  8. Ha, this is great. Really fun idea.

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  9. I love this concept - so cool!

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  10. My husband and daughter would love this! They are both obsessed with neat, orderly stacks. I don't know why or how, but there you have it.

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  11. This cracks me up! My neat-freak fiance would love this. :]

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  12. These freak me right out! Wonder what that says about me? :)

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  13. Love love love this guy!!! So clever and creative :)

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  14. This is so creative. I love it!

    XO Hilary
    http://thehippinista.blogspot.com/

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  15. That's hilarious! I love tat she even organized the universe! OCD at it's best!

    http://nomadic-d.blogspot.com/

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  16. I love these!!! the sun bathers are definitely my favorite too! amazing

    www.bluebirdkisses.com

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  17. Miss Becca10:45 AM

    Oh this just makes my neat little mind so happy. I especially love the dots from the fruit bowl all lined up. My family is getting links to this! Thanks for the smiles this morning Joanna! ~B

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  18. So fun! Arranging that soup must have been really tedious.

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  19. Hahah..what a fun idea and the fruit bowl made me smile. Even the bowl-dots are rearraned into a row:) Hope you had a great long weekend, Joanna. Kisses

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  20. I love the bowl of fruit! How cool! So creative! Thanks for sharing!

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  21. Ha, I like this cleaning up concept.

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  22. This is awesome! I love seeing things go from dirty to clean! Before and afters are my favorite! So fun!

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  23. beautiful and fun!!
    Loving them all:)

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  24. Anonymous10:55 AM

    Haha this is really appealing to my obsessive compulsive sensitivities.

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  25. love it, and of course he's swiss, ie, anal retentive. this is danny r., through and through...

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  27. this is too cool. you always find the most amazing things!

    http://missmollyfashions.blogspot.com/

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  29. ahhh, that sandbox one is so adorable!! :)

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  30. I love the soup!

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  32. These are amazing, and such a brilliant idea! I love the sand and food letters!
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  33. Wow!!! These are awesome!

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  35. Oh! The OCD tendencies in me LOVE this. I must get the book.

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  36. This is so freakin' cool!
    Creative people amaze me.

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  37. i need to do this to my closet!!!
    xo- vanessa (the gal)

    http://fashiongalfireman.blogspot.com/

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  39. Seems a little OCD. I wonder how long it took to separate the soup?!? Very unique idea!

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  40. This is exactly how I live my life. My mind is always trying to organize everything. I would love this book on my coffee table lol

    xoxo
    FAKE EMPIRE
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  41. I love the fruit one!

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  42. eh eh, only a swiss could do this! :-)

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  43. This would be great for a children's book!

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  45. That is hysterical and fabulous!

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  46. This reminds my of my best friend, she color coordinates her skittles.

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  47. This makes me very happy. Thanks for sharing!

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  49. These are fantastic. Talk about OCD!

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  50. ha, it's embarrassing how much I appreciate things like this!

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  51. This is absolutely brilliant! Love seeing creativity in such unique ways and places!

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  52. This is fun! xoxo

    http://hellofridaybypaik.blogspot.com/

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  53. I'm a librarian and these pictures basically illustrate how my brain works. Love!

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  54. I've noticed you tagged this in "genious". I think so too!
    I love this work, makes me feel like I have an OCD, but also reminds me of a childrens game I used to play young... :)
    I am just fascinated when art makes me feel so many random things!

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  55. Hahahaha---These are awesome!! I love the beach and alphabet soup! Hilarious!

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  56. My favorite one is the one about the stars in the sky! Love! :-)

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  57. wow! I love this! Thank you so much for sharing this...I am going to re post...its soo calming, those photos!

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  59. redfrizzz10:29 PM

    GAH! ORGASMIC!

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  60. this gave me a little bit of OCD happiness. :)

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  61. This reminded me of Monk (which I've recently started to watch again)! :]

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  63. haha, this is great. especially love the first and last ones.

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  64. oh i love it! what a brilliant idea

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  65. i love these, very creative and fun to look at !

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  66. i love this i saw it on lecia's page.

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  67. This just helped me through "hump day" Wednesday. Thank you, Jo!
    xo
    http://allykayler.blogspot.com

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  70. Ah looking at those is so relaxing. I wish I could do that to the world.

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  71. Anonymous5:19 PM

    These are hysterical, Virgo porn!
    Jx

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  72. this really made me giggle!! i live in Switzerland (Basel area) and this post is sooooooooooo Swiss! the swiss are very organized individuals and everything has to be in a certain order, so to see this pics, fits the Swiss on soooo many levels LOL thanks for sharing .. i will have to show this to my swiss hubby! haha ;)

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  73. Frederique7:15 AM

    Oh no - it's a different bowl!

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  74. Whoa what an interesting technique! So thoughtful.

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  75. i will have to show this to my swiss hubby! haha ;)

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  78. Anonymous12:22 PM

    frederique look closely its the same bowl spot the spots!

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  81. this makes total sense! genius! lol

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  82. These pictures do make you think! Where did you find these pictures? Super entertaining :)

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  83. Hahaha.
    How to make beauty disorder into untainted order.

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