jonathanfranzen

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by jonathanfranzen 1y ago
Pynchon is on my dream list of people to be able to eventually add. For now, I like to imagine he is in the background of every photo with an NYC crowd over the last 60 years.
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by jonathanfranzen 1y ago
Creator here - yeah, proving photo provenance has gotten more challenging. When I started this in 2019, if you found a photo of Alice Cooper with Colonel Sanders on an old blog, you could safely apply Occam’s razor: “Would anyone bother met
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by jonathanfranzen 1y ago
You basically have to take a trip through Rogan's studio if you're trying to connect, say, a WCW midcarder and Roger Penrose, which is the exact curiosity this site exists to fulfill.
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by jonathanfranzen 1y ago
Creator here — the site runs a shortest-path search over the set of photos I’ve manually verified. Thanks for pointing this out, I just added Carson-Leno and Leno-Cooper, so now their interview guests are all down to a couple hops. Talk sho
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by jonathanfranzen 1y ago
Creator here – everyone on the site right now is connected, and you can imagine how everyone living today could be added with photos that already exist! The really interesting cases are the historic outliers – like Harriet Tubman, Edgar All
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by jonathanfranzen 5y ago
My hobby is collecting rare and obscure photos of historical and notable people together then adding them to my website where you can see how any two people can be connected through appearances captured in photos. With this website I aim to
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Show HN: Network Of Time – visualize connections between notable people(networkoftime.com)
3 points by jonathanfranzen 5y ago|4 comments