My name is Addy and I ’m a Flickrholic . I ’m a window - licking voyeuse who ’s been pressing her olfactory organ up against the cold glass of the life of stark strangers , stag through their photostreams . And if you intend I ’m unearthly , take a peep through their curtains . Marvel at Polymorfo Perverso ’s rather delicious fetish portraits ( one legend reads“your neck is so much play ” ) orGizmodo ’s pet tough man as meat - market mascot . If you ’re a Flickr snoopr like me , you cognise the giddy , naughty pleasance of it all . If you ’re not one , well , here ’s how to become one in a hurry .
The mantrap of Flickr is its serendipity . I found Mr Perverso ’s oh - so - perverse materials by innocently typing“I love Jesus”into the lookup box . Usually I ’m on the hunt for stuff and nonsense at work such as“Treo unboxing,”“broken iPhone”or“computer dungeon,”which gets you some hombre ’s cellar server farm , screenshots of PC - based RPGs , and , for some reason , a shot of a dandy ’s first information processing system , an Atari 800 . But“dungeon ” , all by itself , gets you into much more trouble : French châteaux , a trammel - and - rubber - gasmask outfit bind to a cross , a young woman in striped socks and a exposure that is so NSFW I will only tell you that the person whose stream it is has a blog devoted to the artistry of the gust - line of work .
The crazy matter is that , unlike some photo sites , Flickr uploads are public and searchable . Why are masses so interested in sharing their most tender or outrageous or embarrassing moments with the globe ? My theory is that beyond friends - n - kinfolk photo sharing , manypeopleon Flickr are amateur lensman and artists who want to show off what they can do , but beyond that there are the crazy cakes just die to have themselves a bunch of practical friends who will pen a testimony like “ April - May ’s deep - pharynx technique just has to be go through to be believed . ” And what keep on me coming back is that it ’s always change . A lookup from one day to the next can give totally different results .
Here are some quick fun tag safaris to illustrate the point :
•Taxidermist
•Foshizzle
•Space Pantsor , better still , Spacepants
•Repossession – Note the Jude Law cameo
•Disco Biscuit
•Junk In the Trunk
I get a tingly sensation looking into the private lives of random people . Sure it ’s mostly quotidian stuff — wedding , party , vacations — but on occasions you may get a sudden rush of tenderness mix with guilt , like when stumbling on thesesecret stolen moments of a couple of strangers at Glasto .
There ’s a bent to renown stalking on Flickr . unmediated hunt plough up eclectic results . Bill Gatesbrings up pictures ofbananas , asubway moving staircase — evenwindowsas oppose to Windows — before fielding a couple of crack of the literal software baronwith Michael Arrington , with Steve and Walt , and , heh , with an iPhone . There was nothing at all interesting for either Clooney or Madonna . Hayden Panettiereturned up a few shot of the save cheerleader lap up things , if you ’re into that sorting of stuff . bet for picky celebs , it seems , is a waste product of fourth dimension ; you ’ve got to cast a wide net ( like using the real word “ famous person ” in a lookup ” ) and just see which A - Listers ( or B - Listers or C - Listers ) get catch .
All of sleb life ishere , fromA(niston)to(Jay-)Z. Look ! It’sTara Reid and Tommy Leehanging out in a bar . What they might lack in make - up they surely make up for in drunkenness . Here ’s a giant , beigeJohn Goodmanqueuing up for some stripe - b - que . It ’s perverted Sister’sDee Snyderactually looking cool , andKeanu Reevesactually looking irritated . Kirk Hammet from Metallica seems to have taken the meter and drive tohave his shirt match the shopfront he was photographed outside of . Here ’s a greatback - of - the - fountainhead shot of Paris Hiltonand awax model of Lady Dithat I retrieve was a tranny lookalike .
you may in reality play games with Flickr as well . Rather than go on individual tatter safaris like the ones above , you may embark on a sort of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon : How far can you get from one subject in six moves ? I set about off withPorkins , going viaPOTUS , Pewkus , PokerandBummerbefore ending up back in Star Wars country ( sort of ) , atClones .
I ’ve made some singular discoveries . For one , Konaboy , whoseSpring Cleanpicture cropped up in about 60 % of my searches , seems to be Flickr ’s Kevin Bacon . Another , Pisces Romance , demonstrate me how to say “ I wuv woo ” with rose and sunsets . undecomposed of all ( specially Jesus ) , I find a recently - uploaded pic of — I’m guessing here — the upcoming serial publication of Flight of the Conchords . It ’s Brett and Jermaine inroller - discomood . Because , my little friends , on Flickr , it ’s always Business Time .
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