• Korval@lemmy.today
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    5 days ago

    I vaguely remember hearing about an artist who, I think this was about 15 years, scavenged a bunch of the oldest camera phones they could find (i.e., flip and candy bar phones) and, because no one ever resets their electronics, pulled all the photos they held. I didn’t actually see how they displayed the pics (giant collage? coffee table book?), but I thought it sounded interesting from historical perspective. I’ll bet it’s a lot like nowadays except for the quantity since those phones predated constant cloud-connections. That is to say, mostly kids, SOs, and cats.

    • blueamigafan@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      That might be the razor project I think it was called, he bought a bunch of Motorola razors and put into a book ALL of the contents that was left on the phones

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        5 days ago

        I just did some digging. It’s called RAZRS by Kyle Williams.

        Good luck finding it. There’s a Buzzfeed article with some pictures but the book, physical or digital, is totally unavailable.

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    6 days ago

    I’m literally having to clear out my photos because I’ve got 20,000 filling up my storage and most are work related. iOS and Outlook are so shit at exporting photos as jpeg

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    6 days ago

    This is too relatable. Looking at my last pictures it’s literally: Flower, car stereo, a wall in my garage, a cool lizard and the parts number on my alternator lol

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      6 days ago

      My last 20 photos: Screws I needed from Lowe’s, picture of a wood project I’m working on, the wiring for my kids guitar (wanted the pickups replaced), some AI rendering of me in a suit, several memes, and some cool plants from a nursery down the road.

      Very incriminating stuff.