who doesn't like beautiful things?

12/12/2010

I have this personal project I like to work on from time-to-time. It's an image bookmarking site, heavily inspired by ffffound, with a major of exception.

When saving images on my site, I attempt to extract colour information about a photo. Until recently, it's been purely so one can go "ooooooh, look at the lovely colours in that one!", but I've started adding some cool features to it. I've also been sneaking social features in, more as a means to explore than anything else. I'm super happy with where the site is at in its current incarnation. If I were so inclined, I might call this version of the site 0.9. I'm about to do a massive code review to improve and enhance things so it's something I can be proud of on a technical and personal level. At the moment, due to its disjointed development schedule, it's a little messy in places. It works, though, and performs very well for its current user-base.

If you're interested, the site is called allyouseeis.me and the things I find can be seen here (very, very not suitable for work or neurotic girlfriends).

The site as an experiment has had two fairly notable impacts on me. Firstly, I feel like I know a few of my friends (and one guy I barely know) loads better. It might not be surprising that people's personalities speak through their judgement of beauty, but it has been and continues to be a cool way to communicate with people. Secondly, I get increasingly annoyed with people who share other people's work without attribution. It's seriously arrogant to share people's work without giving them credit, and I wish that people wouldn't do it. If I'm looking at an image, I'd like a clear route back to the source. I don't care about having to trudge through 13 different crappy Tumblrs just to find an artist and I shouldn't have to do it!

Also, has anyone noticed that Tumblr is now myspace. When did this happen?