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Back to the Future Photo Project (NSFW)
- chrismealy 15y agoFYI, that's Billy Bragg in the Riff Raff photo
- soamv 15y agoPart 1: http://irinawerning.com/back-to-the-fut/back-to-the-future/ http://irinawerning.com/back-to-the-fut/back-to-the-future/
- jeroen 15y agoPart 1 is NSFW in exactly the same way as part 2. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3253422 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3253422
- mef 15y agoLife truism: you will get saggier.
- dogshoes 15y agoJust as a warning for those reading the comments before the linked article: at least one of the photos is NSFW.
- VladRussian 15y agoagree, missing Berlin Wall photos may be offending to your conservative co-workers as an "in-your-face" reminder that the human race progress can't be stopped.
- randallsquared 15y agoIt's entertaining that you picked a subject that can be used perfectly both ways. ;)
- VladRussian 15y agothe difference between Communist Party bosses back in the USSR/Germany and right wing conservatives in the US today is only superficial. So, i'm not sure how you can have it both ways.
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- hugh3 15y agoBoth of you, stop it. Take it to reddit/r/particularlyinaptandodiouspolitics
- scottyallen 15y agoWow, this is really phenomenal. It's amazing to see how little some people change versus how much others do.
- Zimahl 15y agoWhile not professionally done (and some done much better than others), this is quite similar to 'Young me, Now me': http://www.zefrank.com/youngmenowme/ http://www.zefrank.com/youngmenowme/
- noblethrasher 15y agoNeat. An interesting alternative title is 'Old me, New me'.
- xbryanx 15y agonsfw fyi
- sanderson1 15y agoVery well done. My favorite is the image of the kid chipping away at the Berlin Wall and then having it gone when he's older. Things can drastically change in a lifetime (or a quarter of a lifetime)
- robflynn 15y agoI hate to simply chime in with an "I agree," but that specific image achieved a verbal "Oh, Wow" from me. Awesome.
- dredmorbius 15y agoOne, in my case, that was delayed a few moments while I tried to grok why the second photo obviously wasn't taken in the same location as the first ... and then ... oh, it was. The lives that wall divided.
- mirkules 15y agoNot sure if anybody noticed, but the picture of Patrick B (the kid/man inside the box) has stamped on it "Berlin West" in 1982 and simply "Berlin" in 2011. I also love how the author kept the proportions of the images almost identical, except in cases where she wanted to convey a sense of growth. For example, the doorway (Fer, Buenos Aires) and the book "Crude Black Molasses" (Alexandra, Paris). The opposite is true in pictures such as Patrick B (the box has to be bigger to accommodate a man), and Evan in NY).
- jxcole 15y agoPlease change the title to include the string NSFW. [EDIT: Thanks for updating. Nudity, no matter how innocent, should probably have this warning.]
- kleiba 15y agoJust out of curiosity: what is it that makes you think the pictures aren't SFW? Is it the nudity? This a serious question, as I suppose you're saying it's NSFW in the US, but I don't think there would be a problem in my country. Thanks. EDIT: Okay, from the comments so far I now understand it's not so much that there's nudity in some of the pictures, but that some of them contain children. Even though it's still nuts I think (not all pictures containing nudity are pornographic, and none of the ones here are even close to pornography), I get the idea now. Thanks again.
- sp332 15y agoNSFW means Not Safe For Work. There are places where nude photos on a work computers can get you fired immediately.
- arethuza 15y agoSo people must live in fear of clicking on links that contain a few nipples? [Edit: Presumably just female nipples?]
- angelbob 15y agoYes, alas.
- swah 15y agoStartup opportunity?
- pkteison 15y agoYes, American employers are pretty terribly paranoid when it comes to nipples. What it boils down to is they adopt a strong policy as a defense against lawsuits, so if they are ever dragged into court by an employee claiming a 'hostile work environment', they can point to their policy enforcement as proof that they aren't a 'hostile environment'. In practice the policies don't just ban porn, they ban anything that could possibly make anybody feel uncomfortable or objectified, so swimsuit calendars or even dirty jokes can get you fired. So the upshot is, if a site isn't careful about identifying links to naked photos, it is no longer safe to read it at work. Even some sites that sometimes have racy ads are best avoided at big companies (who tend to have bigger legal departments, lawsuit exposure, and stricter policies). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_environment_sexual_harassment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_environment_sexual_hara...
- thinkbohemian 15y agoNSFW
- kleiba 15y agoThis is awesome! The German Wall pictures are among my favorites. In case you'd like to send your praise to the artist: irinawerning@yahoo.com
- DanielN 15y agoSo, I flagged this post as not relevant to HN, and normally that would be the only action I would take. But I'm kind of curious as to why this is being up-voted so much. Is there some element of this site that is legitimately within the purview of links appropriate for HN (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)? It is getting enough votes that I am curious if there is some deeper element that I'm missing other than just the ascetic interest of it.
- tedunangst 15y agoI think you mean aesthetic. I definitely missed the ascetic part too :)
- melling 15y agoIt's quite creative. As developers, entrepreneurs, etc., shouldn't we be nurturing this very hard to qualify talent?
- _delirium 15y agoThese are well done, but the idea's been floating around social-media sites for a while now. I'm not sure where exactly it started, but it's been a meme on Reddit for people to find childhood photos and pose to recreate them. This is basically a professional version of that, it seems. Though, interestingly, it comes across with a different aesthetic, which I do like better. The Reddit ones often seem jokey, while these come across as oddly surreal/timeless.
- jamesbritt 15y agoShortly after my brother was born a photo was taken of myself and my siblings. Many years later one of my sisters noted the ordering and we've since made a point, on the times we're all together, to group ourselves in the same ordering for a group shot. I don't think we've ever done a recreation sort of picture as this site has (some of which are quite striking) but it's fun to look over pix from 10 or twenty years and see how we've changed.
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- dudurocha 15y agoThis is fricking awesome. For some reason, I really love 'back to the future' 'before and after' photographs. One thing I noticed its how good the Argentinians age.
- aw3c2 15y agoThis is weird, the sidebar says "All Photographs © Irina Werning" but it seems obvious that the old photos were not taken by her.
- cjbprime 15y agoNot having taken the photos doesn't mean that she doesn't currently hold the copyright to them. It would be easy for her to have a copyright transfer from the original photographer be a condition for inclusion in her project. (Also, I expect that there would be a separate copyrightable work for the combination of the old and new pictures, and the compilation of the series as a whole.)
- genieyclo 15y agoThis is not hacker news.
- gbog 15y agoAgreed, the number of wow-answers seem to correlate, maybe wow should be counted as downvote?
- danbmil99 15y agosomeone is pretty serious about color matching
- Adaptive 15y ago(You might already be aware of this, but it's relevant to the post and others might be curious.) I'm sure that more effort than this was put into the color matching, but the Photoshop color match function allows for statistical sampling of an image/layer and applies those values to an existing image. It can produce the same results and is one of the hidden gems of Photoshop that few users take advantage of. Not a filter, it's one of the adjustments.
- aMoniker 15y agoThe first image is currently being used in an anti-smoking ad which I saw yesterday in the London Underground.
- gautams 15y agoWow!
- DanBC 15y ago"Maartje 1990 & 2011 Amsterdam" is going to be really tricky for people in England. The sexual offences act makes that kind of photo pretty much illegal for anyone, with narrow exceptions for law enforcement doing their job. Maybe context would provide some kind of defence - but still the disruption to a person's life (computers seized; suspended from work; possible court cases; etc etc) are still significant. To post such content without an NSFW[1] warning is stupid.
- rplnt 15y agoLet's say it's an art. See dozens of movies where you can see naked teens or even children, movies which are still publicly available and no ones computers are being seized. Also millions of family photo albums contain this kind of imagery.
- DanBC 15y ago> no ones computers are being seized. Yes they are. > Also millions of family photo albums contain this kind of imagery and people taking these kind of photos today[1] are being reported to the police. [1] at least, a few years ago when people were using film.
- Revisor 15y agoBeing labeled as NSFW on HN is for me the more interesting part of the link. Don't you dare visit the page. There is at least one underage girl in underwear and a pair of developed female breasts. Also a naked toddler! Is it SFW if you know the girl in underwear is from Amsterdam?
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- rit 15y agoThe amount of hyperbole and ranting on the NSFW angle to me on this thread over the last day is rather disappointing. One should not think of the NSFW tag as a comment on morality, puritanism or anything else. It is simply a common part of netiquette which developed as a courtesy. "Hey, there is some stuff in this link such as nudity, questionable content, etc which may be an issue for you if you are at work, sitting in public or somewhere else potentially sensitive. Just a heads up!" All it is meant to do is let you know. Some people work in schools, libraries or other places where this isn't OK. Not to mention that while many of us don't have any issues with nudity, myself included, we might not want to browse it at work. Get over the whole "Oh my god $XYZ is so full of prudes, in my country this is totally OK" and appreciate the fact that it's considered polite.
- lotharbot 15y ago> "All it is meant to do is let you know." Specifically, it allows you to make an informed decision as to whether, when, where, and in whose company to access the page in question. For example, I don't care one way or the other about "explicit language" for my own sake, but I'd like to limit my toddler's exposure. An NSFW-language warning on videos is a courtesy to me.
- rickmb 15y agoI was going to agree with you before I actually clicked the link. Any place where this is NSFW has some serious issues. Sure, I know such places exists, but you cannot expect submitters to constantly be aware of such outliers any time they submit a link. Otherwise we would constantly have to check a whole list of obscure cultural sensitivities around the planet. You want an NSFW tag for this utterly harmless link, just ask politely. But don't accuse people for whom it's genuinely hard to imagine why this would be an issue of being impolite.
- thom 15y agoI feel like a prude now, but you saw the boobs, right?
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- nomdeplume 15y agoI found the link interesting and am glad it was posted on here. If not the content itself, then certainly the ensuing conversation is relevant to HN. The fact that sexuality is so taboo in our culture yet motivates humans at the most basic level is fascinating. Others question why this link and not others get so much attention, which is another HN relevant issue. Maybe more people saw it at the same time and the sudden influx of upvotes sent it on its way.