Show me you, in a human information photograph!

[imomus]

We're ASCII/QWERTY characters on a computerized network. We're opinions. We're links. We're theories and narrative and arguments, we're words, words, words. It passes the time. It's legible. But we're also faces and bodies, we're visible, and sometimes that interesting fact gets forgotten. Sometimes, here in "the wilderness of opinion", that might be rather interesting to see.

So today I want to ask you to do something very simple and obvious. So simple and obvious, in fact, that I've never thought of doing it in four years of blogging. I just want you to post a photograph of yourself, one that shows what you look like, something bigger and more literal than your icon. Show me you, in a human information photograph, down in the comments section. You don't need to say much, just appear, be visual, be here.



Here's me, but you probably know what I look like by now. I certainly do. The interesting bit, for me, is you. The interesting bit begins below. Let's become a visible crowd, a vertical crowd. Let's make an unmasked ball of sorts. Hello!

Comments

[mooshstache.livejournal.com]

helloo

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Yum, candy!

[kumakouji.livejournal.com]

[sweetnessss.livejournal.com]

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/sweetness/32990452/)

[eeuuugh.livejournal.com]

Kind of funny how most of the pictures are taken inside?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Living indoors manifestly isn't your destiny!

hi there

[st-ranger.livejournal.com]

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/st_ranger/23878931/)

[jip.livejournal.com]

(http://www.kwark.org/Gfx/2003/2003Week39/dscn4952.Thuis.jpg.html)

[turkishb.livejournal.com]

i chose this one because i am smiling in it :) i love that book

[rhodri.livejournal.com]

[smudie.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

Stuart Mudie

[smudie.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

A virtual curtain seems to have been drawn over the photo I tried to add above, and you have to click it to really see me - sorry!

[beverlyhillscop.livejournal.com]

Appeal to their narcissism and people will post.

And Nick: "ASCII/QWERTY"? Please!

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I think our body/mind split has become chronic and terminal when even showing that we have have faces and bodies is "narcissism".

[mistresshellena.livejournal.com]

[brokenjunior.livejournal.com]

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Haven't I seen you around my house?

[mcgazz.livejournal.com]

Tomorrow's post should be about why people who never normally comment on your posts jump at the chance to post a picture of themselves.

[electricwitch.livejournal.com]

Because we all wanna get laid, bb.

[truefaux.livejournal.com]

(http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v491/truefaux/?action=view&current=Photo181.jpg)

[count-vronsky.livejournal.com]

zooey!!!

[toylike.livejournal.com]

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/toylike/2315763295/)

[green-paint.livejournal.com]

[(Anonymous)]

excuse my ignorance how do i get my pictures up

[imomus.livejournal.com]

You'd need to join Photobucket (http://photobucket.com/) or Flickr (http://flickr.com/) or some other photo-sharing service like that, then follow their instructions about "embedding".

[anna-koalski.livejournal.com]

[cerulicante.livejournal.com]

Here is a small version of a photo of myself.

[polocrunch.livejournal.com]

Hehe, everyone is much younger and artier and more attractive than I imagined. The big job now is pairing up people's pictures with their faces, to see if what I expected of them is correct.

[polocrunch.livejournal.com]

Aww, it didn't work. Try again:

[maimelodi.livejournal.com]

[mylifeismundane.livejournal.com]

[(Anonymous)]

"Like Mick Jagger's brooding, nerdish younger brother circa 1963. But handsome."

http://a3.vox.com/6a00ccff97f72a6ea500e398aa6edb0005-pi

[nickink.livejournal.com]

From Barcelona

[(Anonymous)]

Alex P.