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For four years, I photographed, indexed and classified my entire house
- szundi 2y ago[flagged]
- rekabis 2y agoBeing neuroatypical happens in roughly even amounts between men and women. However, while a man - unless he is wealthy, whereupon he is merely “eccentric” - will be nailed to the wall for his differences and beaten up on a constant basis for not conforming (and until the 80s, were literally beaten black and blue for failing to conform), women will mostly be forgiven by society for the exact same peculiarities. They are “acceptably eccentric” regardless of wealth or social status, whereas men could only be “acceptably eccentric” if they were exceedingly wealthy such that they didn’t even have to hold down a job at any point in their lives. Things have gotten a lot better for men in the last few decades, and especially in the last decade with it’s open acceptance of neurodivergence, but I was born just late enough to escape the era where I would be coming home from school with serious physical injuries - meted out by teachers seeking to violently force my conformity - on pretty much a daily basis. Those tools were taken away from teachers in the 70s (in Canada) as a part of removing potential sources of abuse from the school system.
- fmajid 2y agoGirls are better at masking, though, at least those on the autism spectrum.
- ChoGGi 2y agoIs the landing page full of hundreds? Of full size images shrunk into little thumbnails?
- Liftyee 2y agoJudging by how they progressively loaded top to bottom on my usually fast (350 Mbps) internet, yes. Each tiny image was barely 128*128 on my phone screen but they still loaded very slowly.
- mtlynch 2y agoOof, just loading this page caused my browser to download 170 MB of content. I hope she has a good CDN.
- gazchop 2y agoLooks like it's all on yourhosting.nl. "Unlimited" traffic. Of course until we hug it to death...
- b112 2y agoSo... a typical node.js page size then?
- grahamj 2y agoOne doesn’t typically write a webpage in node
- b112 2y agonode is used extensively on frontend. Massive bundles of js libraries. That is indeed part of the webpage. And it doesn't matter how typical or not, I'm referencing the case in point.
- httpsterio 2y agoI think you're confusing js with node. node typically doesn't run on the frontend, but can be used when developing the front but it won't be running on the users browser.
- b112 2y agoNo confusion here. Node.js is an entire ecosystem, and npm is a child of that mess. It is absolutely famous for the massive gobs of absolutely junk it pulls in to satisfy dependencies a frontend dev could manage with 4 lines of native js. You may rail on about how npm != node, but everyone considers npm to be 'node package manager', no matter what the initialism actually stands for.
- ninjin-carh 2y agohttps://archive.is/S9a64 https://archive.is/S9a64
- urronglol 2y ago[flagged]
- bboynton97 2y agoher
- a1o 2y agoVery slow to load. Also, I find these about written in third person very weird.
- prawn 2y agoI think third-person bios are reasonably common in the art world.
- tra3 2y agoI've thought of doing something similar. Add a barcode to everything, designate a "home" and then create a catalogue. I even found an app that supports this. No more "where does this go" or "where do I find X"..
- HPsquared 2y agoMaybe a phone camera could be trained to recognize the objects and locations.
- tra3 2y agoYeah that would work too. I ended up creating a table in org mode for a limited subset of my gear — camping gear specifically. Using the phone is just too much friction. I print out a checklist and check items off. This is not the flying car future I was hoping for, but it works well enough.
- HPsquared 2y agoFlying cars, when they come, will probably depend on bash scripts on some level.
- Animats 2y agoThere was once a startup product for that. Came in a box "Now you can barcode everything in your house". Saw it at Fry's Electronics in the DOS era. There's a modern version.[1] This is a bit much for a house, unless you have way too much house, or several houses. [1] https://www.intelliscanner.com/products/scanabout-home/ https://www.intelliscanner.com/products/scanabout-home/
- smokel 2y agoI once made a large pencil drawing of my living room using only words. Each word depicted a "thing" at the position I found it. It taught me a lot about what things are. A chair is obviously a separate entity and easy to list, but what about the floor and the separate floorboards? I listed the wall, but I didn't list the paint on the wall. The bookcase took a lot of effort, because I found that each book in it was a thing by itself and should get listed separately. However, when I was nearly finished, I found a bag in a cabinet, holding ~200 pins. I just counted them and noted down "207 pins"; I didn't feel that each pin was unique enough to warrant separate entries. I now try to stop believing in things. It's mostly just molecules that happen to be in a certain configuration for some time.
- aspenmayer 2y ago> I now try to stop believing in things. It's mostly just molecules that happen to be in a certain configuration for some time. This is the way. The real and/or important things have a tendency to impinge upon your perceptions in such a way as to render your belief in them or lack thereof moot and/or meaningless.
- lukan 2y agoDeep philosophical insights gained through pedantic accounting - I genuinly love it.
- HKH2 2y agoAnthropological too.
- s_m_t 2y agoYou don't actually act or behave in accordance with that "belief". You would be incapable of perceiving anything, taking any action, or making this post.
- layer8 2y agoThe things are real, they are emergent patterns. Both each individual pin as well as the whole bag are real. See also https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/23307/1/wallace_rp%20for%20archive.pdf https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/23307/1/wallace_rp%20for%20....
- kmoser 2y agoI was expecting to see detailed photos of the house itself, but this is even cooler!
- Pikamander2 2y agoSome constructive feedback to the site owner: Instead of having the webpage spend several minutes slowly loading thousands of barely-compressed 500x500 JPG images, please consider this advice: 1. Convert the images to WEBP or AVIF or at least run them through something like TinyPNG to compress them better. 2. Save two versions of each images; a 75x75 version that gets used for the 75px thumbnails shown on the page, and a 500x500 version that appears in the lightbox after a thumbnail is clicked. 3. Only load a few dozen thumbnails at first and then load more after the user scrolls down or clicks a "show more" type button.
- codingdave 2y agoI'm not sure optimization is her goal. If you just load the page and let it sit without scrolling down, it slowly counts the number of photos she has taken. That is not the design choice of someone seeking speed. So she might be deliberately allowing it to be slow. That would track with her other works, one of which specifically says she finds beauty in imperfection.
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- firecall 2y agoFor points 1 and 2: I recommend and use Cloudinary. Cloudinary can take care of all that for you! For point 3: You can add laoding="lazy" to the image tag, and get lazy loading for free, supported by the browser: * https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Performance/Lazy_loading https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Performance/Laz...
- netsharc 2y agoI'm still dreaming of an image file format where the file begins with the, say, 75x75px image, and then continues with higher and higher resolutions, where the browser can decide when to stop downloading. Ideally they wouldn't be redundant either, e.g. the 2nd block would contain just the data to upscale the 1st block to twice the resolution.. so the "75x75" thumbnail in a hidpi display would just need blocks 1 and 2..
- xvfLJfx9 2y agoCool. But... why?
- RadiozRadioz 2y agoBecause it's cool.
- tantalor 2y agoThis isn't a "house", this is the contents of a house.
- aaron695 2y ago[dead]
- vunderba 2y agoIf she ever decides to get into learning/flashcards, this would make a helluva setup for an incredibly detailed memory palace.
- Daub 2y agoI teach art and over the years I have come to understand that many people use art to subsume their neurosis (well duh I hear you say). What TFA describes is familiar to me as a typical form of this phenomenon - the cataloguer: artists who feel the need to give a home to that which is homeless, to elevate that which is humble. A highbrow example of this would be the work of Mark Dion. Interestingly, by her own admission Barbara Iweins (the artist whose work TFA features) self describes this project as being rooted in neurosis, specifically one that seems to be a response to lack of stability in her life. Similar projects seem always to have an unbound quality... like the labors of Sisyphus. So I guess my question to her would be "how would you know that this project is complete?" Is it complete now? According to TFA it is, yet I suspect that even with all the effort she has put into it, the itch is not yet scratched.
- Crontab 2y agoThat really touches the comic and book collector inside of me. Very nice site.
- halyconWays 2y agoImagine the dread when he realizes he should've taken short videos of each object from different angles, so that an AI could create 3D models to go along with a photogrammetry/gaussian splat/NeRF recreation of his home.
- beaugunderson 2y agoreminds me of Michael Landy's similar work called Break Down--he not only cataloged all of his possessions, he also destroyed them all using an industrial shredder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hYUnkW4sNA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hYUnkW4sNA https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/jan/27/like-witnessing-my-own-funeral-michael-landy-shredding-everything-owned-yba-break-down https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/jan/27/like-wi...
- RockRobotRock 2y agoThis would be great motivation to buy less useless crap
- zamadatix 2y agoI noticed there is a gray dress in twice with the "same" image (separate files but clearly generated from the same photo). I went to go do an automatic search to get some fun stats on things like that but the site is inaccessible for now :) commenting as a self reminder.
- HelloUsername 2y agoOn Firefox on macOS, I get a pop-up module saying "This site is asking you to sign in." and then Username and Password field, on top of a blank page...
- felipeqq2 2y agoThe site is down right now, but there's a nice behind the scenes video hidden in the background: https://katalog-barbaraiweins.com/BEHINDTHESCENES/marbles.mp4 https://katalog-barbaraiweins.com/BEHINDTHESCENES/marbles.mp.... (or archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240624140531/http://katalog-barbaraiweins.com/BEHINDTHESCENES/marbles.mp4 https://web.archive.org/web/20240624140531/http://katalog-ba...)