Re: altered WTC photos, recombinant memes

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On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 11:50:31PM -0400, Gerald Oskoboiny wrote:
> Some random guy sent me email yesterday, with Subject: "is this you??"
:
>     http://impressive.net/people/gerald/2001/10/11/wtc.html
>
> which is an altered version of one of the pictures on my web site, of
> Hugo on the 107th floor of one of the ex- world trade center towers:
>
>     http://impressive.net/people/gerald/1999/09/nyc/r1-e14.jpg
>
> How weird is that? Some people have too much time on their hands...
:
> The altered version of Hugo in the WTC is a variant of another
> meme that has been going around, that I first remember seeing in
> the form of this photo:
>
>     http://www.scripting.com/images/2001/10/04/schmuckWtc.jpg
:
> It's probably just a matter of dumb luck that it ended up being
> some other dude in all those images and not me or Hugo...

I just found this page via my web server's referer logs:

   http://www.photoshopcontest.com/posts.php?forum=127

where people posted a bunch of modifications of this image,
of me in Tokyo:

   http://impressive.net/people/gerald/1998/pcd01/90-small.jpg

Weird!

(more persistent version:
http://web.archive.org/web/20020617131445/http://www.photoshopcontest.com/posts.php?forum=127 )

--
Gerald Oskoboiny <[email protected]>
http://impressive.net/people/gerald/

Re: altered WTC photos, recombinant memes

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On Monday, June 17, 2002, at 09:25  PM, Gerald Oskoboiny wrote:

>     http://www.photoshopcontest.com/posts.php?forum=127

LOL! That's really funny.

Standing in the middle of the street, though? You were just asking for
it.
--
Aaron Swartz [http://www.aaronsw.com]
4FAC4838B7D8D13FA6D92EDB4145521E79F0DF4B

Re: altered WTC photos, recombinant memes

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On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Gerald Oskoboiny wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 11:50:31PM -0400, Gerald Oskoboiny wrote:
> > Some random guy sent me email yesterday, with Subject: "is this you??"
> :
> >     http://impressive.net/people/gerald/2001/10/11/wtc.html
> >
> > which is an altered version of one of the pictures on my web site, of
> > Hugo on the 107th floor of one of the ex- world trade center towers:
> >
> >     http://impressive.net/people/gerald/1999/09/nyc/r1-e14.jpg
> >
> > How weird is that? Some people have too much time on their hands...
> :
> > The altered version of Hugo in the WTC is a variant of another
> > meme that has been going around, that I first remember seeing in
> > the form of this photo:
> >
> >     http://www.scripting.com/images/2001/10/04/schmuckWtc.jpg
> :
> > It's probably just a matter of dumb luck that it ended up being
> > some other dude in all those images and not me or Hugo...
>
> I just found this page via my web server's referer logs:
>
>     http://www.photoshopcontest.com/posts.php?forum=127
>
> where people posted a bunch of modifications of this image,
> of me in Tokyo:
>
>     http://impressive.net/people/gerald/1998/pcd01/90-small.jpg
>
> Weird!

very!

> (more persistent version:
> http://web.archive.org/web/20020617131445/http://www.photoshopcontest.com/posts.php?forum=127 )

All of which reminds me you can do a crude version of this in SVG:

(You need the Adobe SVG plugin to appreciate this...)


SVG...
http://jibbering.com/rdfsvg/search.1?noun=Street
http://jibbering.com/rdfsvg/search.1?noun=Person

Superimposed chaos:
http://www.jibbering.com/rdfsvg/search.1


generated with Jim Ley's SVG annotation tool,
http://www.jibbering.com/svg/AnnotateImage.html (Annotating Images with SVG)
based on http://www.w3.org/2001/08/rdfweb/svg-foaf (RDFWeb: Co-Depiction in SVG)
src rdf file: http://jibbering.com/rdfsvg/1024384081789.rdf

Hmm, in retrospect I should've annotated the small jpeg not the medium
one, and tried to recompose some of the photoshop'd pics properly with
SVG.

If anyone wants to try, http://www.jibbering.com/rdfsvg/search.1
should give the basic idea.

Dan

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