Between 2020 and 2023, a user named @mrtortilla3895 commented every day under the same YouTube video, an upload of Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy. For 1,000 days, the comment section became his personal diary, written in public and read by hundreds of other users gathered in the same virtual space. His entire adolescence is documented and narrated in this unconventional space. Also, mrtortilla’s performance has inspired so many other users to start their own journals in the comments.
In these two videos (1 – 2) you can find more details about this incredible story.
Here is the original Debussy video upload.
Here is a spreadsheet containing the complete archive of @mrtortilla3895’s diary.
Posts Tagged → web
Astronaut.io
“Today, you are an Astronaut. You are floating in inner space 100 miles above the surface of Earth. You peer through your window and this is what you see”. You are people watching. These are fleeting moments. These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you).”
IMG_0001
Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in “Send to YouTube” button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives. Developer Riley Walz made a bot that crawled YouTube and found 5 million of these videos. Amazing.
Alt search engines
Elan Kiderman Ullendorff has a really interesting collection on alternative search engines.
Internet Artifacts
Neal Agarwal is back with a new entry for his collection of entertaining tiny websites. Internet Artifacts is a virtual museum of artifacts from early Internet history. Funny, educational and immensly nostalgic.
River: a visual connection engine
Max Bittker made a CLIP-based image browser, similar to same.energy. I could explore this thing forever.
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Weird Gnosis
Weird Gnosis, a new, amazing project by IMPAKT:
“From the occult rituals of witchcraft to esoteric psychedelia, the online webproject Weird Gnosis takes you on a journey into some of the weirder parts of the web. With a selection of video and performance art, Weird Gnosis curates a dialogue with artists and thinkers whose practices radically disturb the familiar by invoking the truly weird.”
The side-effects that tends to get us
“The only appropriate response is the most profound ambivalence. That’s what we owe new technologies: we have to teach ourselves to be absolutely ambivalent about them, and mainly we have to teach ourselves to imagine their inadvertent side-effects. Because the inadvertent side-effects are the side-effects that tends to get us”
(William Gibson, 1997)
Where do Websites go to Die?
The experimental architects at David Garcia Studio have proposed an answer to the puzzling question: Where do websites go when they die? Read more here.
Us Now
Art Since 1960 (According to the Internet)
La storia dell’arte degli ultimi cinquant’anni vista da Youtube. Un progetto di Hanne Mugaas e Cory Arcangel. Spicca il solito Warhol, che elogia Jasper Johns per le sue doti culinarie…