Of course, you realize… the scary thing about this and this and this and this and this and this?
In the true essence of what’s going on here, the process could actually spider out from the central loop, backing out to hit every other possible node. Which means you technically don’t even need to have been at UI9 to play along…
Or to insert your own interim node:
Now, it’s true. I don’t think this yet beats The Inifinite Cat Project. But we really don’t need any more blogs with pictures of cats on them, do we?.
Obviously, there are much more creative uses that are possible for this. Those shall be up to you.
30 comments
Ethan 4 years ago
Thanks for that, Doug — my brain just went all Möbius strip.
juque 4 years ago
… and why not?
ben 4 years ago
Out from the central loop !
sethyg 4 years ago
Point, click, blog!
David Barrett 4 years ago
I feel so dirty.
Kevin Cheng 4 years ago
Brain. Hurts.
Dan Cederholm 4 years ago
Doug, I think you’ve opened up a hole that will eventually swallow the entire internet — and then explode. Love it.
Fernando Dunn II 4 years ago
The camera pictures lose their distinction after they reach level 2. Why not just do some screen captures and point to each other’s permalink posts?
Scott Johnson 4 years ago
This UI9 thing is really driving me nuts!
Mani 4 years ago
I don’t even fully get it. I feel like a total eejit.
cu 4 years ago
this is it
adel 4 years ago
“U and I, in this beautiful world..”
Peter Usewicz 4 years ago
To be honest. Does it have any sense?
web 4 years ago
I love how some people got confused by it and started taking picture of thier cellphone taking a picture.
I have to wait till I get my camera from home.
I wonder how big the wormhole will be when its all said and done ..
I hope people link it correctly.
Ottawa 4 years ago
This is insane. Sometimes I wish I had a blog :)
molly 4 years ago
Wow, Doug . . .
“the process could actually spider out from the central loop, backing out to hit every other possible node.”
Tangential and non-linear. Beautiful.
The idea now is to do a very complex loop at SXSW.
–M
ben 4 years ago
Answer to: Peter Usewicz
I don’t think it has to make sense, I think it is just something funny, to which you can participate, without being someone special, you don’t even need to have a famous site. It’s just open. Then comes the creative part at the beginning it was just people taking their cameras, then Doug started by taking a picture of the picture, but we can imagine many things (imagine someone with a laptop that takes a picture of his screen, where you can see the ayer’s rock behind for example :)). And finally, I think it is kind a way to discover new websites.
soul 4 years ago
and once it gets into full flow it will just keep on going… aarrrggghhh!!!
Ray 4 years ago
Geek circle jerk.
Remi Prevost 4 years ago
Shame on me
ben 4 years ago
The particularity of this project, in contrary to the cat’s one is that it’s quite more difficult to find the really first photo taken !
hal 4 years ago
Not only do I not get it, I don’t want to get it.
James 4 years ago
This sort of thing won’t reach critical mass until an actual circle jerk takes place, thereby making real the long-promised potential of weblogs ;)
David 4 years ago
Why did the chicken cross the Mobius strip? … oh, never mind.
Jason Earl 4 years ago
I envy the amount of time you have to do pointless things :-S
Remi Prevost 4 years ago
Well, that took me 5 minutes. Taking the picture. Transfering it to my hard drive. Uploading to my web server. Posting it to my blog… maybe 10 minutes..
Steven Marshall 4 years ago
Someone will find a way of breaking it
Charley Parker 4 years ago
This is actually kind of retro. See this book cover from the mid-90’s, which was influenced, in turn, by this album cover from the late 60’s.
Max 4 years ago
This is a common theme in paintings/drawings as well. Certainly not the earliest is the Triple Self Portrait by Rockwell (1951 I think)
Nikole Jolie 4 years ago
Wow! Thanks for the great idea.