World of Objects - Found product photography from eBay & Craigslist listings
July 6, 2014 8:16 PM   Subscribe

 
This is great. Just damn great. Love it. Thanks for the post.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 8:19 PM on July 6, 2014 [2 favorites]


I totally have one of those. It looks more used.
posted by clvrmnky at 8:29 PM on July 6, 2014


And almost every one of them has a name, known only to the people work with them professionally. The rest of us are left mumbling "one of those thingies, that, you know, go like this?"

I'm really aware of this, having just spent an awful lot of time recently trying to track down what I've finally discovered are called "double sided photo folders".
posted by benito.strauss at 8:54 PM on July 6, 2014 [1 favorite]


The rest of us are left mumbling "one of those thingies, that, you know, go like this?"

/r/whatisthisthing is a helpful resource if you've got a picture of the thing you're trying to identify.
posted by Jacqueline at 9:08 PM on July 6, 2014 [1 favorite]


I saw the marbled scotch-tape dispenser I'd owned - which my father had brought home from his office in the '70s - and went into instant nostalgia overload. Everything that followed didn't even come close.
posted by oneswellfoop at 9:17 PM on July 6, 2014


There are some interesting copyright questions here, from whether permission is being sought to whether the photos are copyrightable at all. This would be neat fodder for some IP law professor's exam.
posted by cribcage at 9:19 PM on July 6, 2014


No link backs to original items (on Safari at least) = 100% not cool
posted by Sportswriters at 9:35 PM on July 6, 2014 [4 favorites]


All I see are an endless stream of unwritten SCPs.
posted by Spathe Cadet at 6:18 AM on July 7, 2014


Wow. And these "things" are for sale.
posted by kozad at 6:20 AM on July 7, 2014


> /r/whatisthisthing is a helpful resource if you've got a picture of the thing you're trying to identify.

An awful lot of those seem to be either insects, mold, or on someone's body. *shudder*

I think I'll stick to the inorganic left-handed Y flanges and multi-tabbed floater rings.
posted by benito.strauss at 10:30 AM on July 7, 2014 [2 favorites]


Can't stop scrolling
posted by greenish at 2:26 PM on July 7, 2014


This really speaks to the power of using a decent photograph for selling stuff on craigslist because I keep feeling I need some of these things just because they are lit well even thought I don't know what they are.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 11:01 AM on July 8, 2014 [1 favorite]


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