Many. Same.

June 13, 2008 11:53 AM

Many photos of the same thing
posted by cillit bang (24 comments total)

More here.
posted by tkolar at 12:01 PM on June 13, 2008

The Most Photographed Barn in America.
posted by plexi at 12:02 PM on June 13, 2008 [3 favorites]

Looks just like a tag search on Flickr, to me.

Not exactly cutting edge, is it?
posted by Brockles at 12:05 PM on June 13, 2008 [1 favorite]

Also: images are sourced from the public domain via photo sharing sites like flickr, the occasional blog, search engines like google images, and from contributers like you. many same does not claim ownership, copy or intellectual property rights to these images.
images are sourced from the public domain via photo sharing sites like flickr, the occasional blog, search engines like google images, and from contributers like you. many same does not claim ownership, copy or intellectual property rights to these images.

I may be going out on a limb, but being as there isn't a "Public Domain" license on Flickr as far as I am aware, I suspect that yet one more person doesn't know what "this photo is public" means on Flickr.

So. This is a collection of snagged images (but at least they claim no ownership) of pictures that replicates a tag search.

1 out of 10. They get the 1 for the yellow anoraks being the first thing on the site.
posted by Brockles at 12:08 PM on June 13, 2008 [1 favorite]

Photos of snarkers [34]

Awesome post. Especially the "Cafeteria" and "Freezer" ones.
posted by krilli at 12:12 PM on June 13, 2008

I did like the concept of grouping things together giving them a different concept. That said, this is pretty weak as a post, if not a website.
posted by DU at 12:16 PM on June 13, 2008

They're all different names for the same thing.
posted by jbickers at 12:27 PM on June 13, 2008 [1 favorite]

Anorak.

Ah-no-rak.

Aah-norack.

Poncho.
posted by Pecinpah at 12:32 PM on June 13, 2008 [1 favorite]

Anorak: In British slang an anorak is a person, typically a man, who has unfathomable interest in arcane, detailed information regarded as boring by the rest of the population, and who feels compelled to talk at length about this information to anyone within earshot.

ergo

Metafilter: Anorak
posted by blue_beetle at 12:44 PM on June 13, 2008 [4 favorites]

And if you have a need to satisfy this weird primal urge more fully, I have heard there are sites where you can see not just photos, but--get this--similar three-dimensional things gathered together. They are called "stores".
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 12:55 PM on June 13, 2008

I suspect that yet one more person doesn't know what "this photo is public" means on Flickr.

And yet one more time, I'll gripe to anyone within earshot that Flickr invites confusion with that very terminology. There are 100 better ways to make it clear.
posted by rokusan at 1:30 PM on June 13, 2008

Lame. Needs the Photo tag. Next.
posted by Vindaloo at 1:45 PM on June 13, 2008

Three thumbs up!
posted by From Bklyn at 1:51 PM on June 13, 2008

I'll gripe to anyone within earshot that Flickr invites confusion with that very terminology.

They have changed it recently to "anyone can see this photo", but I think that site pre-dates the change (I'm sure I've seen it linked before somewhere).
posted by Brockles at 2:57 PM on June 13, 2008

omigod. i need to clean my freezer.
posted by beccaj at 3:26 PM on June 13, 2008

This should be a lot better. I like lots of pictures of the exact same thing and this just isn't doing it for me. The things are just too different. Snowmen? A dumpster? Luckily, there's Flickr and there are certain things that have a force that people causes people with digital cameras to take pictures. For example, in Seattle:

the most obvious is the Space Needle and the EMP
fairly new to the list is the Olympic Sculpture Park
the yellow escalator at the Seattle Public Library
Suzzallo Library, especially its reading room
the cherry trees at UW
Rainier Tower (I like this one a lot because almost every picture is taken from the same place, the southwest corner of 4th & University)
the wall of gum in Post Alley
Pigs on Parade
the Fremont Troll
the Seattle-to-Bremerton ferry run
Dick's
the Lusty Lady and its neighbor, Hammering Man
Gasworks Park
the Ballard Locks
the homeless man with the ninjas sign

Snoqualmie Falls and Mt Rainier are the two examples from nature that I can think of in Washington. I'd like more examples of things in nature - like trees, such as General Sherman.

Make this thread better by posting examples of the oft-photographed things from your city.
posted by milkrate at 3:41 PM on June 13, 2008 [1 favorite]

Cute people jumping on beds.

Good enough for me.
posted by hippugeek at 4:14 PM on June 13, 2008

Jesus is the rizzle for the sizzle
posted by mrgrimm at 5:12 PM on June 13, 2008

1 out of 10? 1 for effort. A few spaces up above are some Plains Indian ledger art. 7 comments so far. 18 here. I hate it. Throwing a blue Big-Gulp gets more attention than either of these--by the millions. Not right. Things will change. I like the ledgers better.
posted by wallstreet1929 at 5:38 PM on June 13, 2008

Another plug for the Plains Indian Ledger Art thread above, don't miss it
posted by fourcheesemac at 6:08 PM on June 13, 2008

Thanks plexi, I'd forgotten how bad a writer Delilo was.
posted by elwoodwiles at 8:06 PM on June 13, 2008

I'm guessing there's a red plastic cup in there somewhere.
posted by StickyCarpet at 8:22 AM on June 14, 2008

"did you eat my bike?"
"yes."

I LOL'd at fatchicksinpartyhats.

Thank you for manysame, I enjoyed it.
posted by sir_rubixalot at 9:55 AM on June 14, 2008

Thanks plexi, I'd forgotten how bad a writer Delilo was.

White Noise is one of the greatest American novels of the past 50 years, imo. And Don DeLillo has a capital "L" and three "L"s.
posted by mrgrimm at 10:05 PM on June 16, 2008