Thursday, April 10

the internet, the image, the rhizome
I got a hit today from this site. It's a collage of web-images that acts on a random search and link principle, probably by some weird bot the guy designed. Basically it gathers and layers images, linking each image to the site from which it originated. I don't know if that means a graphic from my site simply showed up in the collage or if someone clicked on the picture and came here. It'd be more interesting if something from my site caught the eye of someone who happened to be looking at the collage the moment it randomly, coincidentally loaded. Now THAT would be synchronicity.

Funny enough, I was doing some spring cleaning today and I came across a photo envelope that I didn't recognize. I took out the pictures and thumbed through them. My first thought was that they might be Justin's, since I certainly didn't know anyone in them, but they were developed here in Eugene at Dot Dotsons and that would, well, require a 35mm camera and the effort of going over to Dot Dotson's to shell out extra cash for their pricey prints. That's NOT Justin. And upon perusing the photos together we determined that we don't know ANYONE in them and that they were most definitely taken at a graduation ceremony of some sort. Probably UO because one of the pictures has a bit "O" sticky on the window and looks like a campus building. Still, questions remain. Like, whose photos are these? How long have I had them? And where on earth did they come from?