[HN Gopher] Doors I touched today (1999)
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Doors I touched today (1999)
Author : ohaikbai
Score : 110 points
Date : 2023-03-20 20:04 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| omershapira wrote:
| I really wish more people did Fluxus [1] - related art activities
| in the time of cheap digital media. Its so cheap to document and
| describe, while still retaining intentionality.
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluxus
| naillo wrote:
| Nicholson baker would love this
| blauditore wrote:
| ...and I thought I was the only one photographing apparently
| pointless stuff.
|
| I like this.
| acuozzo wrote:
| When I'm doing home repair and my endoscope isn't handy I use
| my phone as a periscope.
|
| Because of this it is full of "pointless" photos e.g. dozens of
| out-of-focus shots behind my AV receiver in my stereo cabinet
| to make sure I didn't over-strain a cable while pushing it
| back.
|
| Does this count as pointless stuff?
| all2 wrote:
| Context? What "pointless stuff" do you photograph?
|
| I'm partial to taking pictures of graffiti, especially on
| trains. It's like a mobile art gallery with the occasional
| unskilled swear word thrown in.
| tialaramex wrote:
| No OP, but I take photographs of infrastructure stuff,
| especially if I think I might later want to investigate what
| the deal is. So e.g. I don't have a photograph of the view
| from the tourist elevator which comes out of a fake chimney
| on what was Battersea Power Station in Central London
| (London's electricity was once supplied by huge coal power
| stations right in the city, today Bankside is a world famous
| modern art gallery "Tate Modern", while Battersea is
| basically a mall plus apartments), because you can presumably
| buy that on a postcard, but I _do_ have a photograph of the
| interior of a service elevator which accesses that area
| because I was interested in how it behaved when the idiots
| running the attraction overloaded that elevator.
| kylecazar wrote:
| This really reminded me of life before I went remote.
| rdoherty wrote:
| If you like this, you will love the book The Design of Everyday
| Things. You will never look at a door the same way again.
| https://a.co/d/65WzcpJ
| eclipticplane wrote:
| Instead, you'll learn to get mildly angry every time you come
| across doors so poorly designed it _must_ be on purpose.
| alex_lav wrote:
| Kinda makes me sad that I read this, saw the date and then
| thought "I hope this person is still alive". 24 years is a long
| time. I quite enjoy content like this, especially the tagline
| (maybe a definition of a word that I don't know?): Fluxus:
| "Unfettered play in search of uncharted insights."
| thinkingemote wrote:
| The author does seem to be alive and well today, has a load of
| various websites and projects. Also on instagram
| https://www.instagram.com/allenbukoff/
| isoprophlex wrote:
| The artist sure loves him some diet coke
| kube-system wrote:
| It's amazing that pathogens capable of living on surfaces haven't
| wiped us out already. Thanks immune system.
| throwway120385 wrote:
| Amazingly brass has antimicrobial properties.
| kube-system wrote:
| And the only brass knobs he used were in his own home!
| chaxor wrote:
| And lead, so it's a bit macrobial too :D
| supportengineer wrote:
| For public doors I use every part of the body _except_ my hands
| to open and close them.
| wazoox wrote:
| Fluxus is great. Visit their French museum someday:
| https://en.fondationdudoute.fr/
| barbs wrote:
| It's sites like these that make me dearly miss the old internet.
|
| Then I remember that the old internet is mostly still there, just
| buried under the ad-riddled mass-produced garbage pile of the
| current internet, and there are ways to dig through to it, but I
| never do.
| andrei_says_ wrote:
| Exactly my sentiment.
|
| I'd like to add that I'm grieving the discoverability of all
| these ingenious self made often a bit unpolished experiences.
|
| Platforms come to provide a shiny space for the makers and then
| slowly enshittify everything snuffing out the life out of the
| originals. Just like Disney ;)
| JohnFen wrote:
| It's so much harder to find the good parts of the web like this
| than it used to be that it drains a lot of the fun out of it.
| bmitc wrote:
| Is there any particular technique anyone uses to find sites
| like this? About the only way I know of is to happen across a
| link to them on some forum, like this instance.
| barbs wrote:
| There's this search engine which seems to show some cool
| older-style websites:
|
| https://wiby.me/
|
| > _In the early days of the web, pages were made primarily
| by hobbyists, academics, and computer savvy people about
| subjects they were personally interested in. Later on, the
| web became saturated with commercial pages that overcrowded
| everything else. All the personalized websites are hidden
| among a pile of commercial pages. Google isn 't great at
| finding them, its focus is on finding answers to technical
| questions, and it works well; but finding things you didn't
| know you wanted to know, which was the real joy of web
| surfing, no longer happens. In addition, many pages today
| are created using bloated scripts that add slick cosmetic
| features in order to mask the lack of content available on
| them. Those pages contribute to the blandness of today's
| web.
|
| The Wiby search engine is building a web of pages as it was
| in the earlier days of the internet. In addition, Wiby
| helps vintage computers to continue browsing the web, as
| pages indexed are more suitable for their performance._
|
| EDIT: I found it via this HN thread that you might find
| interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31999259
| alphabet9000 wrote:
| from 2021 https://elliott.computer/residencies/quoin-
| poeteau/doorknobs...
| cjohnson318 wrote:
| I clicked around to an old Fluxus Blogger site and I saw a
| bunch of comments from about 2018 and I thought, "Yay! People
| are still into Fluxus!" but then I read the comments and
| realized they were all spam.
|
| I miss the old internet too. It's bigger than ever now, but
| most of it is garbage.
| klyrs wrote:
| Does the photographer not flush?!
| kulahan wrote:
| It's doors, not handles!
| [deleted]
| arduinomancer wrote:
| This is so weird but cool
|
| Is there a genre of art like this?
|
| That focuses on seemingly mundane stuff?
| frereubu wrote:
| Not quite so mundane I suppose, but the meticulousness reminds
| me of Dan Graham's _Homes For America_ :
| https://www.moma.org/collection/works/105513 It's a detailed
| description of the pseudo-choice offered to buyers of tract
| houses in the 1960s.
|
| Edit: And Hans Haacke's _America Is Hard To See_ :
| https://archive.curbed.com/2015/9/2/9924926/hans-haacke-phot...
| hbn wrote:
| There's a show I like called How To with John Wilson. It's hard
| to explain, but it's kind of just a guy digging into a topic
| each episode, going down rabbit holes of various subcultures
| and industries, winding up meeting strange people in strange
| places, and filling a lot in with mundane footage captured in
| his day-to-day life in New York.
|
| I have trouble giving an elevator pitch for the show, it's
| better watched than described. But I think "finding the
| interesting in the mundane" is what makes me enjoy the show so
| much.
| michaelnoguera wrote:
| If you like seeing these doors, check out doors _in Antartica_:
| https://brr.fyi/posts/doors-of-mcmurdo
| hypertexthero wrote:
| Nice! Reminds me of The Door Problem:
| https://lizengland.com/blog/2014/04/the-door-problem/
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