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A Graphic Designer Turned Those Annoying Computer Error Messages Into Works Of Art

Apr 11, 2014, 04:46 IST

Victoria Siemer

When your computer crashes, you get an error message, telling you that your computer just crashed.

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But what if your heart crashes? Or if you just can't get out of bed?

Victoria Siemer, a graphic designer based in Brooklyn, imagines a world where everyday actions and scenes get a computer error message. The photo series is called "Human Error," and she updates it on her blog Witchoria every week. She started the series about a month ago.

The photos look like Polaroid pictures, ranging from flowers to people to abstract nature scenes. On top of the scene is a modified error message.

Siemer was inspired for the series after Photoshopped crashed on her one day. "I was working on a really complex piece and I lost everything," she tells Business Insider via email. "I was crushed. And the error message 'Photoshop has crashed unexpectedly' popped up. I ended up taking a screenshot of that pop up and the series was born, it just clicked. (Pun always intended)."

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Each error is inspired by something she's going through at that moment, and says that it's "almost a form of visual-emotional synesthesia."

"I definitely come up with the error message before I come up with the rest of the imagery," she says.

Though some of the error message/image pairings can be seen as a little depressing - her favorite is one reminding us that we're all going to die someday - others are inspiring, such as this one that reminds us to "delete inhibitions."

Siemer majored in design at SUNY Buffalo. When she graduated, she thought she would be a print designer, and then stumbled into being a Web designer. "My life is saturated with technology," she says. "According to my Nana, my first sentence was: 'I have an imagination.' Now I'm 25 and I've made a career out of it."

Check out some more of the images in the series:

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Victoria Siemer

Victoria Siemer

Victoria Siemer

Victoria Siemer

(Via Beautiful Decay)

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