More impromptu Internet art exhibits: temp.jpg, image1.jpg (via Luke), webcam.jpg, and DSCN*.jpg. Put together your own exhibit and share it with us.
There are 107 reader comments
• Jan 09 2002 • 2:07PM
kiri, toilet,
poo (check out the toilet paper in the sand - truly inspirational), condom,
mary poppins
• Jan 09 2002 • 2:11PM
Man I love this stuff... ever since you linked us to images.google before it was public I have had so much fun.
here is my exercise in egoism: Jesse's that are not me.
• Jan 09 2002 • 2:13PM
A little tongue is always entertaining.
• Jan 09 2002 • 2:15PM
nude1.jpg is pretty obvious, but a bit more arty than one might expect.
• Jan 09 2002 • 2:18PM
jason kottke, as handsome as ever.
• Jan 09 2002 • 2:21PM
face.jpg. Ooo, trust me on this.
• Jan 09 2002 • 2:25PM
a search for pixel.gif doesn't go down like one would expect...
• Jan 09 2002 • 2:25PM
On the flip side, people who love babies, puppies, and kitties will enjoy cutie.jpg, baby.jpg, and sweetie.jpg.
• Jan 09 2002 • 2:34PM
Oops, that last one should have been...
potatohead
• Jan 09 2002 • 2:48PM
I love the "dessert" and "mary poppins" searches. Brilliant.
• Jan 09 2002 • 2:59PM
Am I Hot Or Not?: the eternal question
• Jan 09 2002 • 3:05PM
Is test.gif too obvious? spacer.gif was pretty cool. clear.gif was not very cool.
This is very cool.
• Jan 09 2002 • 3:30PM
For the coders in the house: foo.jpg
Man, I love image searches. I had a little ASP+CSS dealie that made moving (literally, not emotionally) montages of random graphics, but it broke when I switched hosts and lost the use of a specific control. My weapon of choice then was multimedia.lycos.com
• Jan 09 2002 • 3:53PM
• Jan 09 2002 • 3:55PM
• Jan 09 2002 • 3:59PM
Everyone has a * logo * .jpg or a * logo * .gif
• Jan 09 2002 • 4:00PM
• Jan 09 2002 • 4:16PM
Need a shim?
• Jan 09 2002 • 4:18PM
More electronic envelopes than you can shake a stick at.
• Jan 09 2002 • 4:20PM
Erik, some people have a banner.
• Jan 09 2002 • 4:25PM
Before you see many of these sites, you first must enter.
• Jan 09 2002 • 4:36PM
How about Bono?
• Jan 09 2002 • 4:38PM
Whoops -- try this Bono instead.
• Jan 09 2002 • 4:42PM
How about current.jpg and current.gif?
• Jan 09 2002 • 4:52PM
Oh the Q-ness of it all.
• Jan 09 2002 • 5:00PM
Here's a conceptual installation called "The E-Commerce Cycle":Room 1; Room 2; Room 3; Room 4; Room 5
• Jan 09 2002 • 5:17PM
A google with a view
• Jan 09 2002 • 5:21PM
redball.gif (Adam Curry used it before it was cool and on MTV and all that. I had no idea!)
• Jan 09 2002 • 6:06PM
• Jan 09 2002 • 6:09PM
stick figure roundup
• Jan 09 2002 • 6:55PM
oop, eric had logo above. (my bad)
• Jan 09 2002 • 7:10PM
• Jan 09 2002 • 7:17PM
Feel the love.
• Jan 09 2002 • 7:20PM
• Jan 09 2002 • 8:51PM
How about sunset?
• Jan 09 2002 • 8:54PM
er - sunset?
• Jan 09 2002 • 8:57PM
northern lights - half are really really cool, the rest are unrelated.
• Jan 09 2002 • 9:07PM
Searching for "mvc" will return a whole host of images taken by the sony mavica series of cameras.
• Jan 09 2002 • 9:49PM
Also, untitled.gif works well.
http://images.google.com/images?q=untitled.gif&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search
• Jan 09 2002 • 9:56PM
SiW beat me to foo.jpg, so I'll have to add foo.gif, but I think foo.jpg is much better.
• Jan 09 2002 • 10:40PM
kelly.jpg
doormat.jpg
inspire.jpg
and finally, with apologies to the guy evidently nicknamed "Dump", dump.jpg
• Jan 09 2002 • 11:04PM
Simple Machines: Inclined Plane; Wedge; Lever; Wheel and Axel; Pulley; Screw
• Jan 09 2002 • 11:08PM
. . . just because these words are so fun to say:
chimi
toonces
trousers
dingle
stumpy
• Jan 10 2002 • 1:59AM
Saved By the Bell, but of course.
• Jan 10 2002 • 3:21AM
Wasn't Warhol meaning that in the future, because so many people could become famous (due to media saturation and overload) that fame would only be for a short period of time?
• Jan 10 2002 • 4:38AM
Why not become a member?
• Jan 10 2002 • 5:18AM
Be very very quiet.Also, a chillcam search shows images captured using that popular webcam software.
• Jan 10 2002 • 8:37AM
the road to hell is paved with good intentions
• Jan 10 2002 • 8:49AM
fancy a snog?
• Jan 10 2002 • 9:29AM
well the obvious:
Blog - interesting to see the priorities. There's also yoyo which always yeilds some interesting pictures.
How about some Homonyms?
Trunk
Spring
Jam
• Jan 10 2002 • 9:32AM
Gallery of Two-Dimensional Shapes: triangle, circle, square, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, nonagon, decagon
Gallery of Three-Dimensional Shapes: tetrahedron, pentahedron, pyramid, hexahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, polyhedron, tippihedron, sphere, buckyball
• Jan 10 2002 • 9:48AM
Hey, click me! Click it, I said! Aren't you listening? Click this! Why, oh, why won't you just click here? OK, I don't care where you click, just as long as you click.
Oh, forget it.
• Jan 10 2002 • 10:50AM
Can't we all just be happy?
• Jan 10 2002 • 11:22AM
Oh, damn, I can't believe nobody has already done fear the mullet!
• Jan 10 2002 • 11:29AM
and the next superbowl champs are...
• Jan 10 2002 • 11:41AM
"Wake up!" I said to my roommate, and pointed excitedly at the calendar. It was the the eighth of February, and on the schedule for today was our big trip to the reservoir.
We stopped for coffee on the way, making sure to get a receipt and ignoring the weird accordion-playing beggar who accosted us on the way out.
We picked up Professor Jenkins, who was a specialist in ancient Greek and Roman government. If you wanted to know something about a particular emperor, or a famous siege, or the Colossus of Rhodes, he could tell you about it.
"First, let's stop off at the cemetery," he said. "My father died forty years ago on my twelfth birthday, and I want to visit him and our Pilgrim ancestors."
We waited in the car, sharing a baked potato topped with broccoli, as Jenkins placed a balloon on his father's grave. He returned to the car, wiping away tears with a handkerchief. The fuel gauge showed the tank was three-quarters full, so off we went, clapping in rhythm to the stereo.
• Jan 10 2002 • 1:10PM
• Jan 10 2002 • 2:50PM
soda soda everywhere but not a drop to drink.
• Jan 10 2002 • 4:13PM
I always wondered what it would be like to be president.
Or even gw.
• Jan 10 2002 • 5:20PM
• Jan 10 2002 • 6:12PM
I've always been partial to people named bob
• Jan 10 2002 • 7:38PM
• Jan 10 2002 • 8:17PM
• Jan 10 2002 • 9:27PM
dork
• Jan 10 2002 • 10:08PM
I've got Yin and Yang up the ying-yang.
• Jan 10 2002 • 10:12PM
Not just *any* .gif -- it's the MAIN gif!
• Jan 11 2002 • 7:36AM
surprising diversity found on http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&imgsafe=off&newwindow=1&q=smoochie
• Jan 11 2002 • 1:06PM
All people using Mavicas rise!
• Jan 11 2002 • 4:04PM
Attack of the robots.
• Jan 11 2002 • 8:54PM
Did someone sayhref="http://images.google.com/images?q=dork.jpg&hl=en&client=googlet&sa=N&tab=wi"dork?A lot of dorks catch href="http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&client=googlet&q=bigfish.jpg"bigfish.
• Jan 12 2002 • 10:41AM
Shh! Said thelibrarian to the qwerty quipsteras she dreamt of paradise at her reference desk.
• Jan 13 2002 • 12:28AM
Simply put: Google.
• Jan 13 2002 • 9:56AM
You could try it in other languages: Bild (German for picture), Foto (also German for picture) or nackt (German for, well, figure it out yourself...)
• Jan 13 2002 • 9:23PM
Two more: Random image and no image at all.
• Jan 16 2002 • 8:46AM
...and, once in a while, there's time for:
href="http://images.google.com/images?q=jesus">jesus
and/or
href="http://images.google.com/images?q=allah">allah
.
(or you might be an
href="http://images.google.com/images?q=atheist">atheist
.
(...
href="http://images.google.com/images?q=duh">duh!
...)
• Jan 17 2002 • 1:00AM
A friend just pointed me at a wonderful one: woodcut.
• Jan 17 2002 • 12:24PM
Not to be confused, of course, with cut wood.
• Jan 21 2002 • 3:35PM
it's kinda over-done, but duck tape
• Feb 01 2002 • 5:43PM
Okay, this is gross...puke
Here's one that's pretty interesting...GURU
How about something painful, like an explosion? Ouch!
Croc O' Lyle
http://crocolyle.blogspot.com
This thread is closed to new comments. Thanks to everyone who responded.
anil • Jan 09 2002 • 2:03PM
i was moved by spacer.gif. i saw it as an expression of absence, really an exploration of white space.