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Joe Hamilton mixes familiar, found imaging with the aesthetic of technology both on and offline, and the result is spectacular. His Hypergeography project has gotten a lot of attention for being at the intersection of the natural, the digital, and collage, where mountains and oceans mix with machines, drones, and other tech devices to bridge and examine their increasing gap. In the world Joe has created using Tumblr, there is equal room for both fantasy and fear of what's to come. He, like many others using the platform, has used it to present his art, which works particularly well in its direct reflection of the Internet—a cascading series of images that we seek to collect, curate, and form an identity from. We interviewed Joe about how he used Tumblr to launch his career, in addition to what he thinks about digital art and image copyright laws. He, in addition to 14 other artists and designers, contributed to our How to Make It: 15 Rules for Success From Artists on Tumblr
Mona Lisa combined with the famous National Geographic Afghan girl photograph, which has been my profile picture for quite a while. When I came across an #artselfie of Diddy standing in front of the Mona Lisa, I thought it would be funny to switch it up and put him in the frame and the Mona Lisa
