christopher robbins blog | contemporary myth-making

After reading Marc Davis’ inspiring theory/ predictions on the future of video as building-blocks for a semasiographic language, I thought an apt introductory foray into this would be a Linkinator revamp that displayed google image-results instead of links. After a weekend reacquainting myself with the Director side of the equation, I was dismayed to find that this has already been done — without my (Marc’s) heady intellectual angle of course — but its been done, and done, and done.

But the point (yes the point is always something else with me, isn’t it) the point is that I stumbled upon (and always stumbling, eh) this bizarre collection of images in the process. They are all in the image folder of re2.mm-b.yimg.com, yet hacking back to the root directory resolves to Altavista. Try it: http://re2.mm-b.yimg.com.

At first glance a random assortment of thumbnails, themes dip in and out of the image stream: aikido turns to underwater, settles on thumbnails of a particular document, into headshots, cars, tanks, cellos, prawn, pets, russia…

What is this: a caching system for AltaVista, or something else entirely?