Find the most irrelevant or crappiest image on Aminet.

[Ral-Clan]

I was just browsing through Aminet and am pretty amazed at some of the stuff people upload there that really has nothing to do with Amiga (even a tenuous connection).  Pictures of people's cars, scans of hand-drawn artwork (done in pencil, not an on an Amiga) or just really badly done artwork on the Amiga.

Anyone want to have a contest to find the crappiest or most irrelevant (no Amiga connection) image on Aminet?

You can look here:
http://aminet.net/search?query=.jpg&start=0

Here's some:

Why?

http://dk.aminet.net/pix/fauna/AF-Elephant.jpg

A guy uploaded a picture of his VW Golf.  Yay.

http://de4.aminet.net/pix/vehic/AF-Golf1.jpg

A gymnast.
http://aminet.net/pix/sport/Bican_floor.jpg

Tons of maps of US national parks:
http://us2.aminet.net/pix/park/BigBendAccess.jpg
http://it.aminet.net/pix/park/AcadiaMap.jpg

This (at least it's done on an Amiga, but it's hilarious):
http://aminet.net/pix/irc/ADI_nis.jpg

And bucket loads of badly done Star Trek art (which again is at least Amiga related):
http://se.aminet.net/pix/trace/AlteEnterprise.jpg

(Actually, that last one isn't too bad.  I appreciate the rendering work, but the Klingon ship is HUGE and squashed!)

The readme files of these pictures are just as dead-pan hilarious.  No mention of anything connected to Amiga in the cases of the car photos, maps, gymnist, elephant, etc.

What posesses people to upload this stuff?

[weirdami]

Yo.

[Ral-Clan]

It's true there's a lot of great stuff on the Aminet.  Some real talent.  I do appreciate the sharing by the community, but with a few I have to wonder "what were they thinking!" (same with the Amiga.org pictures sometimes).

I will fully admit that as a teenager I made (committed?) my share of bad art.  :lol:

[Ohforf]

ral-clan wrote:
...

What posesses people to upload this stuff?

I guess they use Aminet as a remote Backup Server.
Upload all your Crap to Aminet, because every Harddisk will die sooner or later.
 :crazy:
 :laughing:

[Ral-Clan]

I guess there's no one running Aminet who filters these things, eh?  Once it's up there, it's NEVER coming down (and it's mirrored!).

That's one thing I've never understood about the "User's Artwork" section of Amiga.org.

http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?c=4=10&orderby=dateD&pos=20

http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=1119=30

I've always taken that to mean it's for "User's artwork created WITH - or pertaining to - the Amiga" (after all, this is AMIGA.org).  However, there's tons of stuff in there that has nothing to do with the Amiga (people showing off their new digital camera's macro abilities by shooting coins, etc.).  Great photos, but there's already a site for that.  It's called Flickr.com.

Ah, I don't really care, but it's funny sometimes.

[orange]

they look nice to me.

you forgot that people didn't have cheap digital cameras and scanners before (and no flickr), so any digital picture was much more valuable. BBSs had many.
 

[Ral-Clan]

Yeah, that thought had crossed my mind.  In some cases, it was just novel to see a photo quality digital image in the late 1980s & early 1990s.  Like how the demo pics for the DigiView, etc. got bandied around on the early Amiga BBSs and on Public Domain disc collections.  

But still, the pic of the VW, etc. above was taken in 1997 and really didn't have anything to do with the Amiga.

[Damion]

But in all seriousness, that IS a sweet Golf... :-P

[cv643d]

LoL I have actually found that image of the gymnast before and asked the same question.

[Hans_]

cv643d wrote:
LoL I have actually found that image of the gymnast before and asked the same question.

Maybe someone used that as a WB background pattern. That would make it "Amiga related" in their eyes. Or it might have been scanned in using an Amiga, or retouched with ImageFX/Photogenics/. Who knows?

Hans

[Ral-Clan]

Maybe someone used that as a WB background pattern. That would make it "Amiga related" in their eyes. Or it might have been scanned in using an Amiga, or retouched with ImageFX/Photogenics/. Who knows?

Yeah, and I typed all of my University essays on an Amiga, so I should upload them all to Aminet, right?

But seriously, the readme files for those images don't mention anything about the Amiga, just "if you like my photos, visit my website".

[AmigaPete]

Here's a good one...

oops

Pete

[Hans_]

@ral-clan

ral-clan wrote:

Maybe someone used that as a WB background pattern. That would make it "Amiga related" in their eyes. Or it might have been scanned in using an Amiga, or retouched with ImageFX/Photogenics/. Who knows?

Yeah, and I typed all of my University essays on an Amiga, so I should upload them all to Aminet, right?

Please no. I wouldn't do that personally either. I'm just suggesting that their may be a weak link in the submitters mind.

Hans

[alenppc]

ral-clan wrote:
Yeah, that thought had crossed my mind.  In some cases, it was just novel to see a photo quality digital image in the late 1980s & early 1990s.  Like how the demo pics for the DigiView, etc. got bandied around on the early Amiga BBSs and on Public Domain disc collections.  

But still, the pic of the VW, etc. above was taken in 1997 and really didn't have anything to do with the Amiga.

You forget what internet was like in 1997 for those lucky few who actually had access to it. Digital cameras were still virtually non-existent. I remember how much I loved browsing those photos sections every time I bought an Aminet CD (when I had no internet access either).

I think it was just the spirit of the community, sharing daily lives on the "early" net when there were no web-forums, no digital cameras, no photo-sharing pages etc... the perception of the internet was very different back then. It's just an indicator of an earlier era, that's all.

Makes you realize how much the Amiga platform and its users have aged.  :-(

[weirdami]

1997? Get hip to 1993, daddio.