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After all these years, I’m still undecided about my definition of the Internet: it could be one of the greatest inventions ever, capable of archiving so much accessible information, or a mountain of crap, designed to waste our time. Of course, as with most definitions these days, it’s probably both, or rather a melding of the two which, like the tides of the seas changes direction with nearly every ‘open in new tab’ click I make. Below are samples and links to some random collections which have been gathering in my tabs (which I’m notorious for having many of<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Random randoms<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"huh\"<\/a>\"hulk<\/a><\/p>\n

“huh” and “hulk911” are just two of the hundred-plus images you’ll find stashed at this random folder<\/a> on negative.net – I don’t even remember where I got this link from! Seriously!<\/p>\n

Artists Shop Windows<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"hoffman
\n Peter Gerwin Hoffmann, lesbar =1+2
\nArt in Shop-windows, Graz, 1979. 09.21.-10.05.<\/font>
\ncollection of images of shop windows<\/a> as arranged and displayed by artists around the world spanning many decades. completely random images, many of which i’ve never seen before. hosted on some hungarian server<\/p>\n

Free Science Lectures Online<\/strong><\/p>\n

Data Mining, Algorithms, A Taste of Haskell (Functional Programming Language) – it’s all right here<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Square America<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"square<\/a>\"square<\/a>\"square<\/a>\"square<\/a><\/p>\n

Perhaps the most ‘valuable’ collection of the bunch, this archive of square-formatted images capture a type of Folk archive, of intimate American perspectives which inadvertently underpin a lot that is great and wonderful about this land and expose our – or definitely my – obsession with visual culture.<\/p>\n

You’ll be clicking for hours: Square America<\/a><\/p>\n

Party Pics<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"party<\/p>\n

Less a collection of anything specific and more another one of those random tab appearances, I have no idea where this one comes from. Some place called the cobra snake<\/a> with a dizzying amount of party photos, which is impressive for a place that I can’t figure out where it is or what it’s about! But obviously somebodies<\/em> are having fun! (click back to the future for the top-level collection!)<\/p>\n

Video Data Bank<\/strong><\/p>\n

And lastly, a true resource collection.<\/p>\n

\"video<\/p>\n

the Video Data Bank – VDB – is quite possibly one of the greatest resources for video art in the United States if not the world! That’s saying a ton, and while the size is small and the loading questionable you can watch a few thousand works of video art here – of if you get a chance to be in Chicago, visit their facility on S. Michigan Avenue, it’s an archivist shrine!<\/p>\n

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