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March 13, 2007 8:43 AM

Subvertr. Progess.
posted by and hosted from Uranus (15 comments total)

Two-word, no-description FPPr.

However, it is interesting, in an AdBusters kind of way.
posted by GuyZero at 8:53 AM on March 13, 2007

What's the classic objection to relativism again? That, in a world where all statements are relative, the statement "all statements are relative" is relative as well? Therefore, relativism collapses under its own weight?

This site had me with its playful, non-sensical approach up until the phrase, "Symbols, or, as Barthes calls them, logotechnics...". Post-modern hero worship. Ugh. Anyway, this is the best thing I could dig up about the organization that is possibly behind this.
posted by phaedon at 9:01 AM on March 13, 2007

Laconic. Worthwhile.
posted by SinisterPurpose at 9:01 AM on March 13, 2007

Website is Italian. My second link was supposed to go the "manifesto" link, but i don't know how to get there through google's translate thingie
posted by phaedon at 9:03 AM on March 13, 2007

The Progress of My Emotions

- What?
- COOL!
- Wait...these photos aren't subverted or anything.
- So...it's about creating tags?
- And why is it so slow?
- Maybe I should "Learn More"...."Subvertr wants to be a ludic reflection about overwhelming and overflowing images" What now?
- Giving up
posted by DU at 9:04 AM on March 13, 2007

This reminds me of my Killar App 2.0 idea, though: Remember that GM commercial creator thing where users could pick music and video clips and write text to create their own ad? I would love, love, love to see that concept generalized to have a huge library of music and video clips of all kinds of products. Now that's subversion!
posted by DU at 9:06 AM on March 13, 2007

Two-word, no-description FPPr.

Metastasize!
posted by srboisvert at 9:21 AM on March 13, 2007

You've got "progess" from "uranus" ???

Sounds to me like a damned good reason to see a proctologist.
posted by Mike D at 9:37 AM on March 13, 2007

Come on, Phaedon. Quoting Barthes? On a Flickr clone? That's funny.
posted by SoftRain at 10:05 AM on March 13, 2007

Welcome to Subvertr. You can do anything. The only limit is yourself.
posted by lostburner at 11:30 AM on March 13, 2007 [2 favorites]

this is genius. this, here, will be hours of fun!
posted by es_de_bah at 12:45 PM on March 13, 2007

Unlike Flickr, the jpgs are over compressed, incorrectly resized, and ugly as fuck. Even the image on their front page is really screwy looking. Look at this image you can see JPG artifacts all over the place. Then, if you load the main page, the same image shows up, but squished slightly so that the image is even more damaged.
posted by delmoi at 1:20 PM on March 13, 2007

Is this supposed to be like signs signed by:

The Mgt

???
??
?

fnord
posted by jkaczor at 4:54 PM on March 13, 2007

say what now?

boobs
posted by mrgrimm at 7:35 PM on March 13, 2007

I'm going to register eeeeeeeeeee.com and call it the refugee camp for all the 'e's that have been persecuted and hounded out of Web2.0 domain names.

Or think about it, and then spend the 10 bucks on beer instead.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 9:26 PM on March 13, 2007