Flickrland, circa April 1st 2005

i am not here

This image is made from the ~74,000 buddyicons that were on flickr as of April 1st 2005.

The original PNG is 348MB in size, at 15072 x 11280 pixels and contains 73790 icons. Some icons (~200) were left out in order to make it rectangular at 4:3 ratio. So it makes nice wallpaper - the original uploaded to flickr is 1600 x 1200.

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striatic says:

*jaw drop*
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

kokogiak says:

Holy... I keep wanting to cross my eyes and see something in there, like a 3D Dos Pesos or something.
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

ellipse says:

i can see custard
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

signalstation says:

I thought I could see my icon, but it came off when I cleaned my monitor's screen.
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

Your Good Buddy says:

/me waits for the folks to start adding notes
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

Chuckumentary says:

finally, tv snow on the web!
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

RuutAckses says:

Carol Anne - listen to me. Do NOT go into the light...
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

cocovan says:

woah!
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

The Eggplant says:

Cocovan speaks for me too: Whoa.
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

themexican says:

funny how when you put enough data in it always ends up looking like static.
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

boboroshi says:

Makes you wonder what's in real static ;)
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

silverbelly says:

How do you get a copy of all of the buddyicons? Obviously you don't go through 74,000 accounts!
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

‮‭‬bees‬ says:

i think you have to work here ;)
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

silverbelly says:

oh...is that all it takes! :-)
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

bopuc says:

I have done the "3D staring" thing and yes there seems to be an odd shape floating in the middle.. sort of like an embryo... or prenatal baby... and... my god... it's full of stars... ...
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

Pete Ashton says:

Could we get the original as a torrent? Y'know, if it's not too much trouble or anything...
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

digitalhooligan says:

oh, there i am. the one just to the left of that guy with his eyes crossed!
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

slabbers says:

that's funny, it is just my icon made very populair!!!
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

Computer Science Geek says:

Jaw drops to the floor!
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

thepretenda says:

incredible! NOISE!!!
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

rvacapinta says:

Compare this to the first few thousand flickr members:

www.flickr.com/photos/stewart/9275/
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

thatsnogood says:

You should put the full size PNG on a BitTorrent tracker and share it. I'd love to see it in all its glory.
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

brendadada says:

oh yes, please torrent it bees, s'fantastic!
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

Otto Lünchen says:

Wowsers.
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

irdial says:

Humanity = Gaussian Noise
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

bruisedpoppyseed says:

hope im not one of the 200 thats been left out. heh.
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

rogue drone says:

Are the icons ordered? and if so, in what order?
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

‮‭‬bees‬ says:

ordered by an alphasort on nsid. so more-or-less random :)
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

Metahari says:

crazy!
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

zachstern says:

quite cool
Posted 43 months ago. ( permalink )

Ju_Urrutia says:

haha, i don't know how you did that but i'm impressed
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

linguist wannabe says:

Crazy. I feel like I'm losing my eyesight if I stare too long. But yeah, crazy :)
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Ravages says:

I wonder if my icon is in there. I was around here (here == flickr) on April 1, 2005
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

♥ shhexycorin ♥ says:

I think this needs updating.
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

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