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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 bmitc »

JohnFen wrote: post #12
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.

It's so much harder to find the good parts of the web like this than it used to be that it drains a lot of the fun out of it.

Is there any particular technique anyone uses to find sites like this? About the only way I know of is to happen across a link to them on some forum, like this instance.

Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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Post by frereubu »

arduinomancer wrote: post #16

This is so weird but cool Is there a genre of art like this? That focuses on seemingly mundane stuff?

Not quite so mundane I suppose, but the meticulousness reminds me of Dan Graham's Homes For America: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/105513 It's a detailed description of the pseudo-choice offered to buyers of tract houses in the 1960s.

Edit: And Hans Haacke's America Is Hard To See: https://archive.curbed.com/2015/9/2/9924926/hans-haacke-phot...

Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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Post by thinkingemote »

alex_lav wrote: post #8

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."

The author does seem to be alive and well today, has a load of various websites and projects. Also on instagram https://www.instagram.com/allenbukoff/

Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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Post by cjohnson318 »

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.

I clicked around to an old Fluxus Blogger site and I saw a bunch of comments from about 2018 and I thought, "Yay! People are still into Fluxus!" but then I read the comments and realized they were all spam.

I miss the old internet too. It's bigger than ever now, but most of it is garbage.

Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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Post by barbs »

bmitc wrote: post #21
JohnFen wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's so much harder to find the good parts of the web like this than it used to be that it drains a lot of the fun out of it.

Is there any particular technique anyone uses to find sites like this? About the only way I know of is to happen across a link to them on some forum, like this instance.

There's this search engine which seems to show some cool older-style websites:

https://wiby.me/

> In the early days of the web, pages were made primarily by hobbyists, academics, and computer savvy people about subjects they were personally interested in. Later on, the web became saturated with commercial pages that overcrowded everything else. All the personalized websites are hidden among a pile of commercial pages. Google isn't great at finding them, its focus is on finding answers to technical questions, and it works well; but finding things you didn't know you wanted to know, which was the real joy of web surfing, no longer happens. In addition, many pages today are created using bloated scripts that add slick cosmetic features in order to mask the lack of content available on them. Those pages contribute to the blandness of today's web.

The Wiby search engine is building a web of pages as it was in the earlier days of the internet. In addition, Wiby helps vintage computers to continue browsing the web, as pages indexed are more suitable for their performance.

EDIT: I found it via this HN thread that you might find interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31999259

Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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Post by [deleted] »

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.

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Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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Post by hbn »

arduinomancer wrote: post #16

This is so weird but cool Is there a genre of art like this? That focuses on seemingly mundane stuff?

There's a show I like called How To with John Wilson. It's hard to explain, but it's kind of just a guy digging into a topic each episode, going down rabbit holes of various subcultures and industries, winding up meeting strange people in strange places, and filling a lot in with mundane footage captured in his day-to-day life in New York.

I have trouble giving an elevator pitch for the show, it's better watched than described. But I think "finding the interesting in the mundane" is what makes me enjoy the show so much.

Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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Post by acuozzo »

blauditore wrote: post #2

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

When I'm doing home repair and my endoscope isn't handy I use my phone as a periscope.

Because of this it is full of "pointless" photos e.g. dozens of out-of-focus shots behind my AV receiver in my stereo cabinet to make sure I didn't over-strain a cable while pushing it back.

Does this count as pointless stuff?

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