MeFi Projects

The worst-quality photo sharing site on the internet - each image is compressed down to 1KB or less. It uses the browser's own JPEG encoder, so results can vary quite a lot (Firefox tends to end up a lot sharper than Chrome, with Safari somewhere in the middle).
posted by malevolent on Oct 4, 2022 - 8 comments

"On May 3rd, 2003, I got a digital camera as a present from my parents. I was 24, living at home, and in the middle of doing my degree. We had two cats, and were soon to get a third. Like everyone else with their first digital camera, I immediately spent the next month taking pictures of all the incredibly mundane things you were never really allowed to take pictures of before. Bookshelves and bathrooms and carpets and curtains. Desktops, cupboards, TV screens. Cats. So many cats. Then I forgot all about ever taking them, and never looked at any of them again until now. So here are nearly a thousand pictures of Essex, England, in May 2003. Almost all of them are extremely boring. A significant proportion of them are either of myself or my cats. 99% of them are in 640*480 format. 23% of them are extremely blurry."
posted by dng on Apr 2, 2021 - 3 comments

I needed a way to share photos and videos for my son's Lacrosse tournaments with other parents. Most solutions require an app download or make it harder than it needs to be. I built PicPack to make the process of collecting and viewing photos and videos super easy. [more inside]
posted by jasondigitized on Feb 16, 2021 - 2 comments

An editor friend of mine and I have been trying to keep occupied during the lockdown by collaborating on short (sometimes very short) fiction based around reader-submitted photos. These are the tales we have so far.
posted by thivaia on May 1, 2020 - 0 comments

The Christopher L. Jorgensen Collection: A digitized and cataloged private collection of historical cabinet cards and CDVs. Updated daily. [more inside]
posted by cjorgensen on Jan 14, 2019 - 3 comments

I'm a film photographer based in NYC and I finally bit the bullet, scanned a load of negatives, bought a URL + hosting, and put up a website. Mostly black and white (some color), mostly medium format (some 4x5 large format or 35mm), in a couple different genres. There's some moody street work, a fun hot sauce expo, NYC Pride 2016, and much more for your delectation. Enjoy and thanks for stopping by!
posted by Grimp0teuthis on Aug 7, 2017 - 5 comments

Because I'm 14 going on 45, I decided to get myself a Tumblr page. I mainly just put a lot of general 1960s weirdness on it that interests me.
posted by jonp72 on Aug 5, 2017 - 1 comment

Eeeeeeey it's a twitter bot that takes two of my photos (selected from twitter, instagram, and the dark cave of my hard drive) and mashes them together. Want to do it yourself? Here's the source code.
posted by smasuch on Mar 3, 2017 - 5 comments

A photography blog documenting the interiors of homes in inner west Melbourne, Australia. [more inside]
posted by Wantok on Mar 3, 2016 - 2 comments

TileArray is a web application that converts uploaded images into photo mosaics of up to 6400x6400 pixels. Users can create, preview, download, and personalize their creations, then share them through social networks and in a gallery at the site. [more inside]
posted by quarantine on Mar 20, 2014 - 3 comments

An iPhone app that lets you make stories out of photos, videos and text, and then publish it and share it. And you can read other peoples stories. [more inside]
posted by jeffamaphone on Mar 12, 2014 - 5 comments

Picflood presents an unfiltered stream of pictures publicly posted to Twitter, updated in real time, with or without a filter for text in the tweet. Because of the specific Twitter API stream that Picflood hooks into, users see only a small subset of Twitter photos, but they still come through fast enough that it's hard to fully process each image before it disappears. Very NSFW.
posted by quarantine on Jan 27, 2014 - 3 comments

I made a site and I thought MeFi might find it interesting: It shows the most popular image on Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr and Flickr in real time, as well as the most popular videos on YouTube each day: www.oublio.com. Now you can waste time on social media more efficiently!
posted by jeddie on Nov 12, 2013 - 8 comments

I take pictures of the sky using my cellphone. I use Instagram. I use filters and up the contrast to acquire interesting effects, which, coupled with visual noise from the camera, create really interesting textural abstracts. Or, at least, I think so. I've been doing it for several months now and I feel that I get better and better, so please take a look. Thanks!
posted by JimBennett on Jul 6, 2012 - 3 comments

This is a Tumblr where I've collected bad photos of bad apartments that I've found on Craigslist. All photos come from listings of 3+bedroom apartments/properties under $1000/month from all over the country. Enjoy!
posted by altopower on Jun 9, 2012 - 9 comments

Given a search term and a starting year, this little web app uses the Google Image Search API to generate an image based timeline. Scrolling to the right adds more years dynamically. [more inside]
posted by gwint on Mar 22, 2012 - 2 comments

My Huffington Post piece about the Palm Springs Art Museum's current exhibit, Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography, 1945-1982. More photographs on my blog, PopCurious.com.
posted by Lillitatiana on Feb 6, 2012 - 1 comment

Examples of lousy options for bike parking, for right now pictures that I've taken myself while out running errands and whatnot. (I'd love to get more photos contributed!) [more inside]
posted by epersonae on May 24, 2011 - 7 comments

In 1989 I found a roll of film in the Huron Mountains area of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. I had it developed today. There are pictures of what looks like a helicopter crash, some people, a house, some lupines, a clematis, lots of jets, including what looks like an SR-71 Blackbird, a building, and a battleship.
Maybe you recognize some of the places in the photos? Maybe you recognize some of the people.
The helicopter crash is intriguing, I haven't tried to google it up yet. The Corsair picture is pretty cool too.
posted by bricksNmortar on Mar 12, 2011 - 2 comments

Other photo sites revolve around making fun of others, but Your Notness was made to help you laugh at yourself. Your Notness is about pictures that honestly reflect you at a less-than-flattering moment in your life. Your Notness is about you and being confident in your notness. And that's pretty wonderful.
posted by a47danger on Feb 15, 2011 - 0 comments

In the course of one day, photograph all of the examples of design that you notice, good, bad, or ugly. I'm especially interested in where you are from vs. where you are at the moment. Are you local? Is this design you grew up with or is it new to you? What does the design say to you? [more inside]
posted by jadayne on Feb 8, 2011 - 0 comments

A minimalist tumblr photoblog dedicated to character actors with "distinctive" looks.
posted by Faint of Butt on Dec 28, 2010 - 12 comments

The pointless weblog is a place where I post scans of some of my old and partially forgotten things, like papercaft spaceships, 80s comic strips, top trumps, puzzles, and other nostalgic things, as well as a science fiction story my brother wrote when he was about 7, and photos of my nan growing up in pre-war france. [more inside]
posted by dng on Oct 10, 2010 - 2 comments

Mural Locator is a site developed for viewers to easily find and locate murals around the world. Readers can submit murals that they see worthy of being shared. This will help promote the artists and their work with large visible images. The collection of murals are documented and associated to their locations with online maps. We wanted to share the beauty of murals with the world and those unaware of this public form of art.
posted by metafus on Aug 31, 2010 - 3 comments

On Oct. 10, my birthday, I will be running in the Portland (OR) Charity Half-Marathon, in affiliation with the American Cancer Society. I am selling photos I have taken in New Orleans, where I have lived for the past four years, in order to help raise at least $1,000 and hopefully reach my goal of $1,500 (and am also accepting direct donations). I will be officially running in memory of the late Emilie Lemmons of St. Paul MN, a dear friend of mine who died in Dec. 2008 after a long battle with sarcoma. She was 40 years old. [more inside]
posted by raysmj on Aug 9, 2010 - 2 comments

Breaking my years of MeFi silence (but I've been lurking all along!), here's a photocomic made up of conversations added to my own photographs. I'm making some efforts in my life to be less neurotic about certain things, and I'm in hopes that sharing these photos and dialogues with y'all will not only entertain a little, but also help me stop being such a hermit and maybe deal with some Stuff. [more inside]
posted by Gator on Jul 23, 2010 - 11 comments

My late father in 1945 at age 17 joined the U.S. Coast Guard, and served on the USS General H.F. Hodges, a troop transport. Last year I found 200+ photos of his time in the Coast Guard and had them scanned. The ship traveled around the world a few times and the photos show shipboard life as well as scenes from shore leave, including Egypt, India and New York City. [more inside]
posted by ShooBoo on Jul 21, 2010 - 4 comments