Found Photos

July 17, 2004 5:34 PM

Archive of Found Photos at 10eastern.
posted by hama7 (30 comments total)

Outstanding. A good collection!
posted by scarabic at 5:47 PM on July 17, 2004

These are boring
posted by delmoi at 6:17 PM on July 17, 2004

D'oh.
posted by PrinceValium at 6:17 PM on July 17, 2004

this will be farkers delight for eons to come. I salute in Hama7 the farkers' pusher and Supreme Linker of Metafilter.
posted by elpapacito at 7:07 PM on July 17, 2004

Found photos are only as entertaining as your faculty to fill in the missing stories. Some people get sucked into that process and love it, others look at the finds and say "so what?"
posted by scarabic at 7:33 PM on July 17, 2004

Here's our own Paris!

Joke dude, please don't fly off the handle at me.
posted by will at 7:36 PM on July 17, 2004

Are these supposed to be randomly found photos? Most of them seem to belong to the same 20-something subculture or group of friends.
posted by skallas at 7:54 PM on July 17, 2004

Whoops

>these were found by doing a search using p2p programs.

These aren't found photographs, but culled from shared directories. Explains why there are large groups of the same people.
posted by skallas at 8:03 PM on July 17, 2004

Wooh! Don't mess with this bad mofo, or he'll bust a cap in your asspack.
posted by scarabic at 9:53 PM on July 17, 2004

This is the best stuff I've seen in a long time. Thanks Hama.
posted by birdherder at 9:57 PM on July 17, 2004

Yes, thanks!
posted by carter at 12:40 AM on July 18, 2004

This must be that global village I keep hearing about ...
posted by carter at 12:44 AM on July 18, 2004

Great stuff, there are some real gems in there.
posted by chrid at 3:56 AM on July 18, 2004

Some super pix here, thanks. There's one on the first page that looks a hell of a lot like lou reed.
posted by dobbs at 9:21 AM on July 18, 2004

Personal letters found on Kazaa (self-link)
posted by Pericles at 9:29 AM on July 18, 2004

There's so much drama and pathos in this photo. Whomever selected these images did a great job. I just wish they'd hvae put a little whitespace between them.
posted by Nelson at 9:32 AM on July 18, 2004

Don't forget the Random Personal Picture Finder...
posted by pzarquon at 11:14 AM on July 18, 2004

The best "found" photos are at Found Magazine.
posted by Oriole Adams at 12:50 PM on July 18, 2004

Excellent. Scarabic is right about filling in the stories for the pics. You either love this kind of stuff or you don't dig it at all. I love it. Thanks, hama7.
posted by squirrel at 12:59 PM on July 18, 2004

Good idea.
posted by ChasFile at 1:49 PM on July 18, 2004

Scarabic, I missed this one. I'm astonished by the fashion requirement to display one's Hello kitty boxershorts way up outside the trousers. I'm guessing it's Hello Kitty, I can't see the actual design. The background looks a bit too grey to be Hello Kitty to be honest, maybe it's little fluffy sheep, or Totoro.
posted by chrid at 2:14 PM on July 18, 2004

oops, stray additional quote mark in link
posted by chrid at 2:16 PM on July 18, 2004

That was great. Funny, and a bit poignant; so many people trying to have fun and looking like dorks in the process. It restores my faith in the human race.
posted by Mars Saxman at 4:22 PM on July 18, 2004

Excellent post!
Reminds me of the Trachtenburg Family
Slideshow Players, a Brooklyn couple and their
daughter who buy up old slide
collections at estate sales then make up songs that tell the stories behind the slides ("Mountain Trip to Old Japan, 1959").
posted by Slagman at 4:43 PM on July 18, 2004

I don't know which way to look.
posted by astruc at 8:05 PM on July 18, 2004

Well, Astruc, there can only be one response...
posted by dejah420 at 8:55 PM on July 18, 2004

Third picture here has to be Gary Numan.
posted by biffa at 4:11 AM on July 19, 2004

People are freakin ugly.
posted by swift at 6:17 AM on July 19, 2004

Yeah, but are there any boobies?
posted by eas98 at 7:53 AM on July 19, 2004

This one is creepy.
posted by SisterHavana at 10:50 PM on July 19, 2004