Hmm while I generally enjoy the favorited photos; this batch could have gotten me in trouble at work....granted that's not your problem but something I am going to have to evaluate in terms of using FF at work. - Snay Trivedi
Gah! Hiding this batch because it's NSFW. - Mike Doeff
I have to remind myself to use the "safe" setting at work so that no one gets surprised if they wander into my office. Actually, I use safe most of the time at home because my son likes to sneak up on me while I have headphones on. - Harvey Simmons
Did Friendfeed finally lift the ban on "unsafe" photos? Or is this just a coincidence that so many photos weren't marked that way on Flickr? - Eric
#5 looks like Bianca from Lars and the Real Girl. - Anna Haro
Eric, these photos are probably considered "safe" by Flickr. Could be because they simply haven't been "reported" as unsafe by the community yet. Flickr relies on users to voluntarily code their content as "safe" or "unsafe" but then has a button where the community can notify flickr or unsafe. It's very difficult to get feeds of unsafe photos out of Flickr. Censorship runs pretty high over there. - Thomas Hawk
Honestly, I think these might be NSFW in the Vatican, but what's wrong with them out in the real world? - John Samuelson
Nudity at work? You should be working, not socializing! lol Even the Vatican has nude paintings. Is this like Amerkan thing? No nude? Are Americans ashamed of their own bodies? - Igor The Troll
@Thomas Hawk: That's what I thought. Shame though, I was hoping this meant there was a better policy. @Hutch Carpenter: The world needs less censorship, not more of it. And if FF *did* adopt censorship filters, nudity is pretty low on my list of things I'd want to see censored. First they should get rid of the incessant "Friendfeed's so great" and "What's wrong with Twitter?" discussions, which are much more offensive to my sensibilities as a thinking human being. - Eric
I would rather see FF censor discussions about itself than some fine art nude photos. - William Beem
@Eric - I wrote that post as more of a "we control the nudity" philosophy. You'll see my recommendations are pretty wide open (e.g. please no goatse's). If ever there are filters put in place, they shouldn't be at the content level, they should be something each user controls. - Hutch Carpenter
I'm pretty tired about this NSFW discussion. The content filter was a great invention at flickr, but they don't use it right. There are still unflagged photos - and problems with flagged photos which can't be viewed at all in some countrys. For example here in germany you can't turn the content filter off, but a naked nipple at work wouldn't be a problem - using flickr or friendfeed at work would. For me the only solution is to seperate work from private, and don't use community sites at work. - Hannes Trapp
@Hannes Trapp: I've been telling people that for years. Do your work at work. Too many people feel a sense of entitlement to using their office computers as their own and then get mad at someone else who doesn't have the same limits as they do. - William Beem
It's still outrageous to me that Flickr won't let Germans see nipples on Flickr when you see far more sensual imagery simply on television commercials in Germany. - Thomas Hawk
Hey I want to see Boobs and Bush or I will burn the Internet! LOL - Igor The Troll
I came for the boobies... I stayed for the depth of field. Epic work. - John Worthington
Yuvi we need to convert your father! ;-) Is he a Priest or something? - Igor The Troll
@Igor: He's just a normal Indian father who wants to *protect* his kids. - Yuvi
You know, that's funny, I wasn't allowed to look at almost anything growing up, and I STILL hide these things on my screen when my parents are over. Habit, I guess. Oh, and there's your answer to why I like looking at women so much, Yuvi. - Donato
Try met-art.com's free tour & Look at the magazine-cover-like shots. http://met-art.com Great photographers of female nudes. It's funny what standards are used. In the dance world, I have a "modern dance" friend who has a nude shot of her & her boyfriend on the card. Even in universities, we have nude dance performers. My brother says dance has spoiled him for strip clubs - "not sexy enough". - Mitchell Tsai
love them....excellent shots....and Yuvi dad need not know :) and nor does my boss.... :) - Arjun
Mitchell are you advocating nudity as freedom of expression? Maybe Mitchell was a Sadu in his past life. ;-) Yuvi, I want to come to India, cover my body with Ash and walk through the streets like Sadu does. - Igor The Troll
@Igor, plp rarely do that :) [cover body with ash and walk the street] . U may only see that in very religious cities like Rishikesh :). Yes I beleive nudity with aesthetic sense IS freedom of expression - Arjun
I wish FF was THIS predominant. Either it's editing, or the fact that interviews were in an urban setting that yields this type of market share. - AJ Kohn
What's the stated Marketshare for FF? I remember it got near 10% out of the box with 1.0.. )goes to watch video ;)) - Doug Haslam via twhirl
FX == FIREFOX :: FF==FRIENDFEED !! just to make sure that we have the same verbiage :)- any1 has better suggestion for us in the FF community ? :)- - Peter Dawson
Nice. Some love for the fox. Not surprised, but too bad there's not much out there for alternative browsers like Opera, or Camino (which is definitely my alternate when firefox gives me trouble) - Erin
Read your story about this guy. I love projects like this, they really make it all worthwhile. - Nick Lewis
@Thomas - Just curious if you are collecting release forms for each of these portraits? I'm really enjoying following this project... - Justin Korn
Justin, I'm not getting release forms. I don't plan on using these portraits in any commercial way that I might need one for. It's more a personal project than something I'd hope to turn into something somehow commercial. Fine art photographs though don't preclude me from publishing without a release form. If there ever was any money at all from this project I'd donate 100% of it back to some sort of homeless advocacy agency. - Thomas Hawk
@Thomas - fair enough. Thanks for taking the time to explain. - Justin Korn
This is a wonderful project, keep up the great work. - Brandon Wood
The question is: do your tweets from friendfeed appear in Twitter? The thing is: I have more friends/followers on Twitter than on friendfeed. Using Twitter is therefor a better choice for me. - Theo
