Exactitudes

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Post by DanBC » Sat, Mar 09, 2019, 7:18 PM UTC

Re: Exactitudes

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Post by DanBC » Sat, Mar 09, 2019, 7:20 PM UTC

I guess you need to read the about me page, which is here: https://www.exactitudes.org/index.php?/about/

I found this while reading a Twitter thread about a man who complained that his image was used in an article about hipsters all looking the same (only for it to turn out that it wasn't him) https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/man-angry-his-photo-was...

Re: Exactitudes

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Post by mxfh » Sun, Mar 10, 2019, 3:45 AM UTC

The project is now in it's third decade. I heard about first around ten years ago or so.

Here is an interview with Ari Versluis from 2012: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/gqnevx/fashion-uk-intervi...

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Post by skilled » Sun, Mar 10, 2019, 4:15 AM UTC

Chrome reports the site (this URL [1]) as deceptive.

[1]: http://exactitudes.com/index.php?/expo/all/

EDIT: Also, extremely loud auto-play within Series details pages with no button to turn it off.

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Post by huwr2 » Sun, Mar 10, 2019, 4:39 AM UTC

What is this?

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Post by JonArintok » Sun, Mar 10, 2019, 5:13 AM UTC

huwr2 wrote: post #5

What is this?

https://www.exactitudes.org/index.php?/about/

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Post by booleandilemma » Sun, Mar 10, 2019, 6:04 AM UTC

Is this like Unicode for fashion, or something?

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Post by jerkstate » Sun, Mar 10, 2019, 8:01 AM UTC

My guess is about 10% of these photos are mirrored to account for left-handed poses (or maybe the lefties were left out)

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Post by JdeBP » Sun, Mar 10, 2019, 9:19 AM UTC

DanBC wrote: post #2

I guess you need to read the about me page, which is here: https://www.exactitudes.org/index.php?/about/ I found this while reading a Twitter thread about a man who complained that his image was used in an article about hipsters all looking the same (only for it to turn out that it wasn't him) https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/man-angry-his-photo-was...

... which was on Hacker News several times, including at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19336512 where it garnered the most discussion.

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Post by Freak_NL » Sun, Mar 10, 2019, 11:19 AM UTC

jerkstate wrote: post #8

My guess is about 10% of these photos are mirrored to account for left-handed poses (or maybe the lefties were left out)

> (or maybe the lefties were left out)

Well, we are a sinister bunch after all.