My post on the weekend has got me thinking about Ed Ruscha again. This isn't unusual as Every Building on the Sunset Strip is a project/precedent that I come back to every few years. In poking around for links on Ruscha's Thirtyfour Parking Lots (1967), I came across the above project by Eric William Carroll.

Thirty-four Parking Lots is a dead simple reconstruction of Ruscha's serial aerial photography project, forty years after the fact. While Ruscha's vernacular was matter-of-fact photography and cheap mass-produced books, the updated version of the project deploys Google Maps and flickr to index tracts of Los Angeles asphalt. Carroll's undertaking is undoubtedly a one-liner but there is something tremendously satisfying about the above array of thumbnails – a seminal artist's book unbound, tagged and timestamped.