Comments on: random LJ image of the moment.

random LJ image of the moment.

mathowie — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 17:13:47 -0800

Recent images posted to Live Journal (probably NSFW at any given moment) sounds like an uninteresting feed from a community: it's just a constant stream of images uploaded to LJ. But the truth is that it's fascinating to watch, to see the whole community summarized into a dozen images of the moment. [more inside]

By: mathowie

mathowie — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 17:15:14 -0800

I can't stop reloading this page today, it's an amazing little LJ zeitgeist in action. At any one time you'll see about half the photos are people taking photos of themselves. Teens playing with cameras, community and new technology are constantly toying with their self-image. You'll see many, many photos of people's new haircut or dye job, their latest tattoo or piercing, or they might just be showing off how they look. Then, you'll find a healthy dose of celebrity images, as they follow their favorite band or movie star. And every list seems to have an image associated with a goofball online test. "I'm smurfette! take the the what smurf are you? quiz here". Anyway, it's a fast moving stream, reload every thirty seconds or so for an entirely new collection of off the wall images.

By: willnot

willnot — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 17:19:02 -0800

You might also like this which does the same thing with images.google.com. It's random rather than most recent, but still feels kind of weirdly voyeuristic.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 17:23:26 -0800

i love this--thanks...it's so interesting to see what other people find interesting.

By: wendell

wendell — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 17:23:41 -0800

::Attempts again to high-five Matt, misses his hand and accidentally slaps somebody with a weird tattoo... skulks off::

By: meehawl

meehawl — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 17:42:00 -0800

The Truman Show called - they want their "plot" back.

By: Joey Michaels

Joey Michaels — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 17:43:36 -0800

Aw, dude! Furries on the first try. I am scarred for life.

By: dg

dg — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 17:47:01 -0800

Cool, except I can't find any NSFW no matter how many times I reload ;-(

By: mote

mote — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:14:33 -0800

Jamie Zawinski's WebCollage is currently running off the last-updated feed as well. My favorite implementation is in Flash.

By: taumeson

taumeson — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:18:42 -0800

so...if somebody posts some illegal images, and this picks them up...who's liable? i don't like it. just because something is put on a "public" journal...well, security through obscurity, and all. not to mention things like copyright, etc.

By: kavasa

kavasa — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:36:14 -0800

This is pretty funny, but the number of quizzes, emoticons, and webcam autophotography of teenage girls is kind of irritating, as I have to scroll through them to get to the occasional funny stuff. Joey - a friend of mine playing with it linked to a picture of the thundercats girls stripping for mum-ra's birthday, which was pretty funny. So hey, props to furries for that.

By: Feisty

Feisty — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:40:52 -0800

NSF90's: The mullet family.

By: livii

livii — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:43:06 -0800

This is very good. I can't quite believe how many images it can come up with - and this is only people who post that sort of stuff to their journals. I like that I got some terrible Friends quiz twice in two reloads. My LJ friends are all Shakespeares compared to the stuff I see here.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 19:22:57 -0800

i don't like it. just because something is put on a "public" journal...well, security through obscurity, and all. not to mention things like copyright, etc. Jeez, are you a lawyer? Seriously, your first response was whether or not it was legal? The page linked is just a collection of images found on a community, like Google images, but totally random. They're not displaying ads or trying to make money off the original rights holders, it's just a totally random snapshot view of a subculture (LJ journalers). When did it become against the law to look at our culture?

By: Grod

Grod — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 19:24:15 -0800

WTF???! I keep refreshing and refreshing and can't find anythin NSFW. So lame. /true, but kidding about caring

By: George_Spiggott

George_Spiggott — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 19:32:56 -0800

Unbelievable -- I expected mostly lameness with maybe the occasional gem, but on my first look no less than five images made me laugh out loud. What a pity the Wayback Machine can't archive this page every 15 seconds. And in answer to taumeson's question, it seems intuitively obvious (IANAL) that responsiblity for copyright infringement rests with the person who hosts the image; i.e. puts it on a web server. All this page does is wrap an IMG tag around the URL; your browser does the fetching and the original host does the serving -- this page never even "touches" the image.

By: The God Complex

The God Complex — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 19:34:50 -0800

I like it.

By: Jairus

Jairus — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 19:46:53 -0800

I've been watching this site all day, I was on my way to post it here when I saw Matt's post. I seriously can't look away. This is what I've learned from my time: Livejournal consists entirely of goths, unicorns, surveys, furries, and breasts.

By: lobakgo

lobakgo — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 19:55:26 -0800

Nifty! This is addictive. People are a such mystery.

By: The God Complex

The God Complex — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 19:58:56 -0800

Some people take large photos of themselves. Very large.

By: lobakgo

lobakgo — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 20:01:33 -0800

And unflatteringly close-up. Very close.

By: alms

alms — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 20:02:48 -0800

By: amberglow

amberglow — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 20:03:31 -0800

and what's with all the ear pics? some fetish thing?

By: The God Complex

The God Complex — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 20:07:06 -0800

I liked that one, too, alms, but I'm a softy, despite my thin facade of in-your-face politikal malarky.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 20:21:59 -0800

Well, I found yer nsfw right here, boys. Cool link, Matt. Thanks.

By: bobo123

bobo123 — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 20:25:51 -0800

Jeesh crunchland I was just about to link to that, anyway here's the page

By: bargle

bargle — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 20:27:59 -0800

Yeah. Some of these pictures are very very very large. Did these people not get any software with their digital cameras or something? As for people saying they saw nothing that wasn't work safe, the FIRST time I went to the page there was a pic of a girl who I _hope_ was older than she looked, what appeared to be a scan from a playboy or similar magazine, and a cartoon of a naked George Bush, which I really did not need to see.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 20:30:44 -0800

When I saw it, bobo, I wondered if y2karl actually did get his own blog.

By: dgaicun

dgaicun — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 20:36:10 -0800

I've clicked this thing about 20 times, and each and every time there was at least one chubby little goth chick. This can't be a coincidence.

By: rafter

rafter — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 20:37:11 -0800

So. Many. Androgynous. Emokids.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 20:46:43 -0800

digital voyerism.

By: bargle

bargle — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 20:50:32 -0800

http://www.hunt101.com/img/135151-big.jpg

By: t r a c y

t r a c y — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 21:15:52 -0800

this is neat. oh, and scary. my eyes, my eyes...! jeez. well i guess i'm getting all the nsfw stuff. interesting tribal ritual, yep. holy mother of pearl. wow. yes, there are way too many people who don't know how to, or are too lazy to, resize a photo before they post it.

By: bargle

bargle — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 21:18:06 -0800

Okay, I am obsessed with this now. So many kittens!!! And.... other kittens. Help you forget the naked guy linked above: NOT SAFE FOR WORK awwwwww! kitty! (safe for work)

By: The God Complex

The God Complex — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 21:26:19 -0800

No photos will load from any livejournal sites for me anymore, so either we kansased the entire livejournal web experience or live journal kentuckys me.

By: c

Mon, 12 Apr 2004 21:33:08 -0800

i cant stop reloading. and as a lj user (no goths, or unicorns for me thanks) i cant help but be terrified that what i post can be taken out of context. but i love being terrified. and i love that which is out of context. OH DADA!

By: sciatica

sciatica — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 21:53:10 -0800

I spent all weekend there. I finally got fed up with only getting 40 pics at a time and whipped up some xsl to get me all 250 from the feed at once. Another skill to add to the resume. alms, thanks for the kittens. I missed those amidst the thong pics and "I am a" quizzes. If you look at the lj stats page, there were 275296 pages updated in the last 24 hours. That's a lot of chubby little goth chicks.

By: timyang

timyang — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 22:11:44 -0800

I can't wait for them to make an RSS feed of this.

By: zarah

zarah — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 22:32:47 -0800

OMG, tubBoy! Everyone else gets kittens and chubby goth girls and I get tubBoy :( I'll be over here, trying to cleanse my mind's eye.

By: i_cola

i_cola — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 23:12:01 -0800

I got 3-way lesbian sex. And an assortment of miserable teenagers. Soooooo glad I just missed the tubBoy.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 23:28:57 -0800

mathowie : When did it become against the law to look at our culture? That's on next week's agenda, I believe!

By: chill

chill — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 00:23:47 -0800

Great, I got Goatse on my first visit. Why does the internet hate me?

By: taz

taz — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 04:00:27 -0800

neener, neener, chill - I got one really funny please think of the children graphic (plus, a kelet!) on my first try. I'm sure this is an actual warning label - but for what, I wonder? "WARNING: Do not place infants under two years of age in this Tupperware container"?

By: Tenuki

Tenuki — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 04:54:03 -0800

But once they're two - seal that infant freshness away!

By: dabitch

dabitch — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 05:08:44 -0800

no fair, my first peek and I got an entirely not safe for work blond pornstar type collection. and a vacuumcleaner? and one cartoon where the gag was "For that you want the village blacksmith, I'm the village wordsmith." *reload* oooh, kittens!

By: Blue Stone

Blue Stone — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 08:59:57 -0800

taumeson - for your consideration.

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:15:31 -0800

I skipped this the first time through because of the NSFW warning, but for those others who might also be hesitating, go ahead and jump! You're really only gambling with the first one. Then you can scroll carefully and have a pretty good idea of what's coming up over the horizon before getting it to a real NSFW display. Great stuff, and yes, addictive. I refreshed it about a dozen times before coming in and reading the thread. I was gonna comment how I never knew there were so many "what kind of ______ are you?" quizzes, but now I certainly will not do so.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:18:41 -0800

I think this just points to the sheer volume of stuff that's posted on the internet in any given moment... what's that saying about a million monkeys at a million typewriters?

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:30:48 -0800

Matt:

By: rafter

rafter — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 10:29:09 -0800

I got this. Which is really really great.

By: taumeson

taumeson — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 10:33:13 -0800

hey, i'm not trying to ruin anybody's fun. i just think about copyright protections (and i'm pretty sure this can be considered republication) and i wonder if this is considered as some form of computer trespassing / unauthorized activity. i also feel for the guy who mentioned that his images could be taken out of context...and i agree that that is something i'd be worried about too. no, i'm not a lawyer, i was thinking about being one, though. i spawned instead.

By: djwudi

djwudi — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 11:52:23 -0800

Rafter — I thought so to (self link). Spent a good few minutes poring over that one when it popped up. I'm gonna be late for work if I don't stop refreshing this thing...

By: Windopaene

Windopaene — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 15:19:05 -0800

Bandwidth limits exceeded. Buh-bye...

By: kavasa

kavasa — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 17:28:16 -0800

Actually, it was getting hit so hard it killed his chip. FLAWLESS VICTORY.

By: keswick

keswick — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 17:40:43 -0800

dammit! /hitting F5 like a lab rat

By: Vidiot

Vidiot — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 19:29:08 -0800

I like the LJ Times, which pulls both quotes from random LJ pages and random AP pictures and puts them into a newspaper-like page.

By: sciatica

sciatica — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 20:44:42 -0800

In case you need your fix and the original site is still hosed, I put up my xsl thing on my site. It works in IE6 on XP with ActiveX and javascript enabled. It reads the full .bml feed and formats it with the lj.xsl. You can download both the .html and .xsl file and run it locally if you want. See 250 of the latest LJ images. xsl file

By: kokogiak

kokogiak — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 21:38:17 -0800

Another re-hash of this at my site - Top 100, more collage-like.

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 23:04:34 -0800

The medium is the message.

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 23:08:21 -0800

The medium is the message. The audience is the content. --Marshall McLuhan

By: sebas

sebas — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 10:32:28 -0800

I put it online at my site

By: bwerdmuller

bwerdmuller — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 05:09:27 -0800

As did I. (The original has been taken down.)

By: yupislyr

yupislyr — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 22:53:44 -0800

An application that leechs images without remorse. Gee, thanks!