That really touches the comic and book collector inside of me. Very nice site.
For four years, I photographed, indexed and classified my entire house
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#42Very slow to load. Also, I find these about written in third person very weird.
I think third-person bios are reasonably common in the art world.
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#43Imagine the dread when he realizes he should've taken short videos of each object from different angles, so that an AI could create 3D models to go along with a photogrammetry/gaussian splat/NeRF recreation of his home.
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#44I've thought of doing something similar. Add a barcode to everything, designate a "home" and then create a catalogue. I even found an app that supports this. No more "where does this go" or "where do I find X"..
There was once a startup product for that. Came in a box "Now you can barcode everything in your house". Saw it at Fry's Electronics in the DOS era.
There's a modern version.[1]
This is a bit much for a house, unless you have way too much house, or several houses.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
One doesn’t typically write a webpage in node
node is used extensively on frontend. Massive bundles of js libraries. That is indeed part of the webpage. And it doesn't matter how typical or not, I'm referencing the case in point.
I think you're confusing js with node. node typically doesn't run on the frontend, but can be used when developing the front but it won't be running on the users browser.
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#46I once made a large pencil drawing of my living room using only words. Each word depicted a "thing" at the position I found it. It taught me a lot about what things are. A chair is obviously a separate entity and easy to list, but what about the floor and the separate floorboards? I listed the wall, but I didn't list the paint on the wall. The bookcase took a lot of effort, because I found that each book in it was a…
Deep philosophical insights gained through pedantic accounting - I genuinly love it.
Anthropological too.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
One doesn’t typically write a webpage in node
node is used extensively on frontend. Massive bundles of js libraries. That is indeed part of the webpage. And it doesn't matter how typical or not, I'm referencing the case in point.
Node is a platform for running JS on the server; it's a non sequitur to talk about node page size whether in this case or any other
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#48reminds me of Michael Landy's similar work called Break Down--he not only cataloged all of his possessions, he also destroyed them all using an industrial shredder:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hYUnkW4sNA
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/jan/27/like-wi...
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#49Re: For four years, I photographed, indexed and classified my entire house
#50This would be great motivation to buy less useless crap