Photos on this IUOMA site

[Valentine Mark Herman]

At 06.25 CET on Monday 2 January, 2012, there are 41,273 photos posted on this site (of which I have contributed a modest 387, less than 1%).

I try and look at the latest photos posted every day.

I would like to look at ALL the photos posted here, but think that's its an almost impossible task to do so.

If I was to spend just one minute looking at (& thinking about, & commenting on) each of the 41,273 photos it would take me 688 hours to do so.

That's almost 29 solid days of IUOMA photo-looking.

If I decided that I'd spend just one hour a day doing this, it would take me 688 days before I had gone from the last photo, # 41,273, to what must be the historic first ever photo, #1.

So sometime about the end of November 2013 I would have viewed every IUOMA photo.

By which time, of course, there will have been thousands of new photos posted that I would have to look at, and I would need to work backwards from the last of them to # 41,273.

And by the time I had  completed that task, there would be thousands more...

... and you can probably see where this Discussion is going.

I'm going to look at just a few more photos and then go and have an early morning cup of tea;

Val

[Oh Boy]

I contributed 305 photos. One minute each will take you 5 hours and 5 minutes. Oh Boy!

[Valentine Mark Herman]

"All of my lfe/All of my kissin/ You don't know what you've been missin"...in this case spendin' 5 hours and 5 minutes looking at your photos.

"Stars appear..." etc

[Ruud Janssen]

And I just archived all those photos on an extrenal Harddisk. My advice :just watch a few a day before you get too old to watch.

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

It's always a joy to see the photos, daily...the new ones... while having morning tea!

Ruud is FAB to archive ALL the thousands of pics on a disk!Add another + a detail of El Greco for Vispo One ;-)

[De Villo Sloan]

Val, years from now, when people are making space flights to other planets that take years - they'll have all this mail-art to look at and plenty of time.

[Valentine Mark Herman]

OK, DVS, I'll let you into a little secret -- I've been sending Mail Art from space for a long time now. That's why it sometimes takes a while before it gets delivered as NASA and its Jupiter equivalent are not always cooperative, and 'Return to Sender' can take a few light years. Val

[De Villo Sloan]

Val, I'm serious! We've already ruined the earth. The colonization of space is our only option at this point. 

[Valentine Mark Herman]

If, repeat if, that's our only option, as you say, then that's very sad, because we're bound to f*** that up, too.I won't be around to see that happen though. Val

[Valentine Mark Herman]

What are we supposed to be discussing? I dunno, I kicked off this discussion and as per usual when I do that one of two things happen -- either, I'm completely ignored (boo hoo!), or the discussion takes off in totally unexpected, often irrelevant but always using and interesting directions .... that's what seems to have  happened here.

[cheryl penn]

My page says 585 - I think its more in the region of a thousand or more. Thats scary the amount of time that is spent uploading - BUT people send such FAB work, its a necessity :-) X

[De Villo Sloan]

Wait, what are we supposed to be discussing?

[De Villo Sloan]

OK, I see. What I think part of IUOMA has become is a huge image library. I doubt there is a larger digital mail-art collection anywhere. No one expects you to read every book in the library. I am glad it's here. I can actually use it for research (for articles I never write). But still...