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Doors I touched today (1999)

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Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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Post by all2 »

blauditore wrote: post #2

...and I thought I was the only one photographing apparently pointless stuff. I like this.

Context? What "pointless stuff" do you photograph?

I'm partial to taking pictures of graffiti, especially on trains. It's like a mobile art gallery with the occasional unskilled swear word thrown in.

Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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Post by barbs »

It's sites like these that make me dearly miss the old internet.

Then I remember that the old internet is mostly still there, just buried under the ad-riddled mass-produced garbage pile of the current internet, and there are ways to dig through to it, but I never do.

Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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Post by andrei_says_ »

barbs wrote: post #5

It's sites like these that make me dearly miss the old internet. Then I remember that the old internet is mostly still there, just buried under the ad-riddled mass-produced garbage pile of the current internet, and there are ways to dig through to it, but I never do.

Exactly my sentiment.

I’d like to add that I’m grieving the discoverability of all these ingenious self made often a bit unpolished experiences.

Platforms come to provide a shiny space for the makers and then slowly enshittify everything snuffing out the life out of the originals. Just like Disney ;)

Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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Post by alex_lav »

Kinda makes me sad that I read this, saw the date and then thought "I hope this person is still alive". 24 years is a long time. I quite enjoy content like this, especially the tagline (maybe a definition of a word that I don't know?): Fluxus: "Unfettered play in search of uncharted insights."

Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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Post by tialaramex »

all2 wrote: post #3
blauditore wrote: post #2

...and I thought I was the only one photographing apparently pointless stuff. I like this.

Context? What "pointless stuff" do you photograph? I'm partial to taking pictures of graffiti, especially on trains. It's like a mobile art gallery with the occasional unskilled swear word thrown in.

No OP, but I take photographs of infrastructure stuff, especially if I think I might later want to investigate what the deal is. So e.g. I don't have a photograph of the view from the tourist elevator which comes out of a fake chimney on what was Battersea Power Station in Central London (London's electricity was once supplied by huge coal power stations right in the city, today Bankside is a world famous modern art gallery "Tate Modern", while Battersea is basically a mall plus apartments), because you can presumably buy that on a postcard, but I do have a photograph of the interior of a service elevator which accesses that area because I was interested in how it behaved when the idiots running the attraction overloaded that elevator.
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