Comments on: Your life is my life

Your life is my life

isol — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 22:28:32 -0800

By: isol

isol — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 22:29:54 -0800

"I was searching through someones shared file list, and saw a folder named 'pictures'. I downloaded the folder and found 20 or so digital camera pictures of this persons life, taking pictures of himself, his friends etc. It made me wonder what else was out there, and after searching for more photos I found hundreds, thousands of them shared to everyone.
The world seems like a smaller place after finding all these photos and posting the ones that are worthwhile. I can see so many of the same emotions and situations that i've experienced over the years, unique to each person but similar and instantly recognizable."

By: clevershark

clevershark — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 22:32:36 -0800

If a picture is worth 1000 words, I wonder what the story behind this one is. There's quite a few really good photos in there though.

By: afu

afu — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 22:58:13 -0800

I don't want to know the story behind this picture

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 22:58:18 -0800

Say what you will about LJ but at least that crowd played a little faster and looser with teh nudity. We need more boobies is what I'm saying.

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 23:05:24 -0800

Afu, I thought for sure your link would lead to this.

By: Elpoca

Elpoca — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 23:20:46 -0800

Nice title...

By: dobbs

dobbs — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 23:29:35 -0800

This has been linked before but it's still awesome. Thanks for the reminder.

By: afu

afu — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 23:39:35 -0800

kevin- What? You don't take your friends out on the weeknds for bodage-equestrian meets? This picture is my favorite so far, beatiful and absurd

By: isol

isol — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 23:41:49 -0800

its taking me hours to crawl through all of these what's addictive about other peoples lives?

By: hototogisu

hototogisu — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 23:48:54 -0800

A heart-breaking twist of fate: John loses the marathon to the dreaded head-venting.

By: teece

teece — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 23:49:23 -0800

I knew I'd seen it before. But it's fun. Here we have the world's leading ping ponger trying to duck the very persistent ping pong paparazzi. Here, I say, in your dreams, photog. And this poor kid. Oh, boy, that picture better not get to this kid's school. I can look through these for hours. I, too, am baffled at their appeal, isol.

By: Eekacat

Eekacat — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 23:58:13 -0800

This is way too freaking addicting for me. I like so many of these and imagine stories in my head. Yes, I am crazy

By: peacay

peacay — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 00:01:09 -0800

Maybe it's me, maybe it's today...but I don't see much in there in the way of photographic artistry which in these days of ubiquitous photography sites I sort of demand/desire if a site's going to pique more than my cursory interest. And they're syphoned from other people -- yeah yeah, if someone's stupid enough to keep pictures in the file sharing folder then it's fair game I suppose -- and that is the only link of uniqueness about the pictures? Would it hold as much interest if it was called Boggo's PicBlog instead of Found Photos? Syphoned, not found. Callow, shallow..or something. Meh.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 00:32:08 -0800

What. The. Fuck.

By: jono

jono — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 00:35:10 -0800

My we are a voyeuristic bunch... On preview: peacay, the uniqueness lies in the fact that every photo is unique to an anonymous individual, and it stimulates our desire to observe the lives of others and to define them [said individuals experiences] in our own terms of experience, identifying with the photos so that we may believe that we are living the human existence and not wasting our lives, or at least that many individulas are wasting their lives accordingly, and we[the individual], are not alone

By: jono

jono — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 00:47:44 -0800

And isol: thanks for keeping this insomniac occupied; this voyeur will be up for another hour... (3AM where I am)

By: peacay

peacay — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 01:38:39 -0800

Point taken jono. For me, usually it's vintage pictures of the unknown departed that stirs my wondering/musing interest. But everywhere I look on the internet, television & newspapers, there's a constant stream of unknowns engaged in the mundane. I'm not saying I hate the site, despite obliquely backhanding it, nor would I suggest that it's unfit as an FPP. Yes we are all voyeurs to one extent or another. I'm just not persuaded that this site rates such a high mention on the unique scale. But, enjoy..

By: taz

taz — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 02:18:52 -0800

Some of the the juxtapositions alone make them sheer poetry. To me, it's really very wonderful.

By: uncanny hengeman

uncanny hengeman — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 02:19:15 -0800

Spooky. Today I was doing random Google Image searches, as I am wont to do, and I came across the very photo that delmoi labelled "What. The. Fuck." http://www.lunch-break.co.uk/ballads/default.asp It came with this rather cruel caption: I work out so much because my penis is so small and my dad hit me when I was a boy and told me I'd grow up to be nothing. He was right. Not a bad body for and old boy, IMHO.

By: dglynn

dglynn — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 03:20:47 -0800

Like seeing a rabbit with a pancake on it's head. My Grandpa told me "People are funny" and damned if he hasn't been proved right, again and again.

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 03:42:36 -0800

For some reason I always instantly find the titties with the hickies.

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 04:02:27 -0800

Wow, that site is addictive. Some of those shots are really amazing in their bad-yet-I-have-to-look-ness. They're like photographic poetry. Seriously, it would take years to learn how to capture the everyday with that kind of whimsy. Or maybe unlearn.

By: BackwardsHatClub

BackwardsHatClub — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 05:57:36 -0800

This one is awfully weird.

By: bardic

bardic — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 06:09:36 -0800

Is that The Locust?

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 06:16:05 -0800

Where's the site that would let you search for a random set of photos based on a common filename style used by various consumer-model digital cameras? It was like google images (possibly even used that) but only for personal photos people have published on the web (knowingly or not).

By: elpapacito

elpapacito — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 06:26:00 -0800

Oh the real unglamorized not airbrushed hummmanity !

By: nkyad

nkyad — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 06:42:15 -0800

elpapacito writes "Oh the real unglamorized not airbrushed hummmanity !" Or "Where have you gone, Photoshop? A world turns its lonely eyes to you".

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 06:53:21 -0800

Where's the site that would let you search for a random set of photos based on a common filename style used by various consumer-model digital cameras? Sadly removed from the Internets, but still available on archive.org.

By: wsg

wsg — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 08:55:14 -0800

I guess this guy lost the bet.

By: afx114

afx114 — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 09:44:23 -0800

Is that The Locust? posted by bardic at 6:09 AM PST on July 6 [!] I thought the same thing.

By: clevershark

clevershark — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 10:22:36 -0800

Actually a GIS on "mvc-" will turn up lots of random results (it's the standard Sony camera picture name I think). "DSCN" will also yield lots of random goodness.

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 12:03:33 -0800

Oh man, I been there.

By: obvious

obvious — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 12:45:43 -0800

Does anyone know what this thing is?

By: rafter

rafter — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:51:01 -0800

Sadly removed from the Internets, but still available on archive.org. I duplicated the functionality here. I expanded most of the search criteria, so it should be chock full of results.

By: isol

isol — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 14:34:55 -0800

Also along the same lines

By: vaportrail

vaportrail — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 23:38:24 -0800

dont look up

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 21:15:14 -0800

The world seems like a smaller place after finding all these photos and posting the ones that are worthwhile. I can see so many of the same emotions and situations that i've experienced over the years, unique to each person but similar and instantly recognizable Oh the real unglamorized not airbrushed hummmanity ! Some of the the juxtapositions alone make them sheer poetry. Seriously, it would take years to learn how to capture the everyday with that kind of whimsy. Or maybe unlearn. isol, elpapasito, taz, Civil_Disobedient, thank you for articulating so well what is mesmerizing about these images.