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Photos of chickens, taken by chickens
- sethbannon 4y agoThis somehow makes me feel nostalgic for when the internet was more irreverent.
- fab1an 4y agoThere is a realization in your future that all the amazing internet things you've been yearning for are actually in a specific corner of crypto - the people, the projects, the culture, it's all there. It's alas sometimes hard to see from the outside, where one can easily be fooled into thinking that crypto is just the ape pictures and scams.
- Havoc 4y agoThose are some healthy looking chickens
- micromacrofoot 4y agoGreat use of an old DSLR camera, the quality elevates this to wonderful.
- TamDenholm 4y ago"The purpose of a rooster is to yell at the top of its lungs all day and prevent the humans from sleeping past sunrise." Excellent about page.
- jahlove 4y ago> Are these chicken selfies? > Yes. The chickens are using an input device (the motion sensor) to invoke a computer function (the capture method on the Pi), which invokes a series of events that results in the photo being taken, uploaded, and shared. > This is identical to a human using an input device (tapping a button) to invoke a computer function (the post method on Instagram), which invokes a series of events that results in the photo being taken, uploaded, and shared. Is it really "identical" though? A human knows they're taking the selfie and sees the result. The chickens do not.
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- Adraghast 4y agoI take selfies every time I pass by a CCTV camera apparently.
- LesZedCB 4y agoexactly, because "take" is the operative word, being a positive action done by a subject.
- dylan604 4y agobetter to take a selfie than having your image taken. otherwise, you need liam neeson and his special skills or you'll never get your image back
- KrissKross 4y agoGreetings, guys. You have quite an interesting experience in this. I think it's fun. To be honest, I haven't taken selfies at all in a long time, and no one really takes pictures of me. I'm probably so unattractive that it's time for me to install surveillance cameras at home so my great-grandchildren can see my photos or they won't know what I look like. But no kidding, besides the ajax security system I installed recently I should think about surveillance cameras not only for selfies but also for their own good and safety.
- pelagicAustral 4y agoYeah, probably not the same at all. When I was kid I used to work summers on a family-owned free-range chicken farm. I remember being fascinated by the behavior of chickens. I also spent a lot of time figuring out if they could remember me, and some did remembered and where more keen on approaching, they were totally conditioned by the fact that I used to give them some different kind of grain food. They even made the trip to the house about 30 meters away, just these few ones. Of course they probably remembered the food but I was still happy with my accomplishments in the field of human/chicken colaboration.
- h2odragon 4y agolost me at "buy NFT"
- almost 4y agoYeah it does take the shine off it doesn't it?
- pelagicAustral 4y agoYeah, I know. 24 bucks as well. I can probably buy a few live chickens myself with that kind of scratch.
- saalweachter 4y agoChicks retail at Tractor Supply for $4 for most breeds, with 6 chick minimums (at least where I'm at). That yields a minimum order of 6 chicks for $24.
- tbyehl 4y agoA hen raised to laying age is worth more like $20-$50.
- mauvehaus 4y agoThe major costs of getting chickens are a coop, and if you're in a place with bears, an electric fence to keep the bears from destroying your coop and eating the chickens contained therein. You might get lucky for a couple of years (we did), but now we have two fewer chickens and a cock-a-doodle-gulag around our coop. If you don't already own a hatchet, you may as well get one up front. At some point you're bound to have to put one out of its misery. You may as well not make it wait while you make a trip to the hardware store. The principle of "buy once, cry once" definitely applies to chicken feeders and waterers. The feeders that hold around 30 pounds of feed are vastly superior to the smaller ones and are worth the investment. The waterers that hold a 5 of gallons and fill via a screw top are similarly superior. Also: chickens shit everywhere. Forget about carefree gambols through your yard once you have chickens.
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- karaterobot 4y agoI think when you say the photos are taken by chickens, I was imagining a chicken wearing a GoPro or something. These are motion-activated pictures from a stationary camera. They're still very cool though.
- technothrasher 4y agoMy thought too. When I saw it was just a home made camera trap I was a little deflated. Their claim that it is the same as human selfie because the chicken is "using" the motion sensor as an input device is a bit of a stretch. The pictures are fun though.
- yc-kraln 4y agoTheir claim is also 100% wrong. The difference, of course, is intent. It's easy enough to ferret out the difference here: If you set up such a motion-triggered camera and a person walks through it, unknowingly resulting in a picture being taken, is it their picture?
- swighton 4y agoI feel like calling these photos "taken by a chicken" is fairly misleading. The photos are taken automatically when a chicken wanders in front of a motion detector. To test the claim with a similar example, let's say I run a red light which triggers a red light cam to take a picture of me and my car. I don't think I can claim that I took that photo, or that it is a selfie.
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- ruined 4y agono, let's support this line of thought. argue in court that the state has violated both the 4th amendment and copyright on your red light selfie. this could be incredible. next up, surveillance images and news media of political demonstrations
- bombcar 4y agoThe "gorilla selfie" case provides the best ruling we have in the area at this time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...
- jaboutboul 4y agoNoah Kalina at it again.
- markozivanovic 4y ago>Do the chickens lay eggs? >>Yes. They are the best fresh eggs you’ve ever tasted. They are available for $20 each. Pick up only. Wow, some expensive eggs! Is it because these chickens are now celebrities? :) Kidding aside, I just bought a box of 10 eggs today for 4 euros (~4,15USD) and thought that was a bit expensive. Also from free-range chicken. I can find "egg prices around the world", but I can't find a single site where I can filter results by the size of eggs and type of chickens. Here's an idea for a really unneeded SaaS!
- reaperducer 4y agoWow, some expensive eggs! Maybe it's a typo. Perhaps he meant $20/dozen. Which is still expensive. I get my eggs from a farmer 30 miles out of town, and she only charges $8/dozen, and that includes delivering it to my doorman. But I only order when she's recently slaughtered another farm animal, to make it worth the trip for her.
- dylan604 4y agoI don't think you're looking high enough. Try looking over your head as that's where this bit of humor sailed ;P
- alx__ 4y agoI'd guess they're purposely inflated to cut down on people asking to buy them
- SV_BubbleTime 4y agoColloquially called the “Fuck off price”. “We don’t want to do it, but if you are really going to pay this, we’ll make it happen.” I was quoting some wood deck and lawn work this spring. I had four people come out to quote, and two gave me fuck off prices about 3-4x what I eventually paid. EDIT: for reference on good eggs, I’ve found duck eggs to be superior to chicken eggs.
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- zwieback 4y agoI had chickens and also had deer constantly destroying anything I was trying to grow, I hate those bastards with a passion. I was always hoping the chickens would chase the deer but they just ignored them.
- ch4s3 4y agoI went to the about page and was not disappointed. Stompers is a great name for a rooster.
- tppiotrowski 4y agoA good reminder that one of the basic tenets of good wildlife photography is to photograph at eye level. So if you want to take a picture of your cat or dog, squat down to their level instead of pointing the camera downwards.
- jjice 4y agoWhy is that?
- tppiotrowski 4y agoI don't know the theory but I find these chicken photos more aesthetic than photos of chickens taken from above. It might have something to do with looking your subject in the eye...
- throwusawayus 4y agomaybe helps that project co creator is famous photographer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Kalina https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Kalina heard zuckerberg booked him as wedding photographer (for real)
- wsgeorge 4y agoFrom my experience, pictures taken at the normal human viewing height look uninteresting because they're taken at an angle we're most familiar with, which doesn't have much novelty. Photos taken at unfamiliar angles will present their objects in ways we're not used to seeing. Which makes them less familiar and more stimulating. Which is more interesting.
- prawn 4y agoI think this is correct. I'm a drone photographer and when drones became popular, you could take a photo from 50m up looking directly down of something plain like a beach and people would lose their minds. As that has become more common, further variations seem to capture more attention. I take a lot of photos from 3-5 metres up because most people don't walk around with ladders.
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- akeck 4y agoNFTs, $20 eggs, etc. aside, this made my day.
- switchstance 4y agoDid the chickens sign releases authorizing the use of their photos?
- oneeyedpigeon 4y agoYou're thinking about this [1], aren't you? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...
- dylan604 4y agoIf the chickens are going to be in public, there is no expectation of privacy. I'd agree if the chickens were in their coop, and they were shooting a long lens through the windows we might be violating some privacy. However, running about in public like this is totally fine without releases
- imron 4y agoThey are not running around in public.
- dylan604 4y agosome people just cannot read humor. is there a textual equivalent of a laugh track that can be included? /s ~= sarcasm /j ~= joke??? i guess some people just never read douglas adams, or these are the same folks that "tried" to read adams and "just didn't get it"
- kerblang 4y agoNot a chicken, but this was my favorite https://chicken.photos/20220605091358 https://chicken.photos/20220605091358
- vhiremath4 4y agoSo cute haha
- dredmorbius 4y agoOne^WSeveral of these chickens are not like the others.
- bryanrasmussen 4y agoIt's nice to see that Gary Larson is still going strong, I think should make a cow tools site next https://twitter.com/Bondcliff2008/status/1530207754358431744 https://twitter.com/Bondcliff2008/status/1530207754358431744
- neoberg 4y agoIf the author reads this: How does the downloading images from SD card part work?
- jacobbijani 4y agogphoto2, specifically the --capture-image-and-download command http://www.gphoto.org/doc/manual/ref-gphoto2-cli.html http://www.gphoto.org/doc/manual/ref-gphoto2-cli.html
- neoberg 4y agoOh I see thank you. I was hoping for a more generic solution that I can use with a device that is not a camera.
- jacobbijani 4y agoYea, this really only works because the camera itself can act as a card reader and USB device as well. This type of thing may work, depending on what your goal is https://nerdtechy.com/best-wifi-sd-card https://nerdtechy.com/best-wifi-sd-card
- xisthesqrtof9 4y ago$20 for an egg? That's just absurd.
- steve_adams_86 4y agoThese chickens are famous, sir.
- xisthesqrtof9 4y agoWhat's next? Are they going to start their own overpriced clothing line too?
- 0daystock 4y agoChickens are beautiful creatures worthy of at the least the respect we give to household pets. The unimaginable horror we put billions of them through on an ongoing basis, while dissonantly admiring their charm and brilliance, is a sobering realization.
- LesZedCB 4y agoindeed, the line between "pet" and "food" is disturbing in both where it's drawn, and it's fundamental relativism.
- sph 4y agoI disagree. Chicken have been seen as food for the majority of our existence on this planet, not pets. That now we see them as pet as well talks about the complexity and capacity for contradiction and paradoxes of our culture and our minds. I accept that biologically I thrive on chicken meat yet I am intellectually capable of thinking chicken are very lovely animals. Humans are walking contradictions. As much as many people try, there is often no simple black and white answer to humanity's most complex issues. But often the black and white answer is the one that's printed on the slogan.
- jephson 4y ago> Chicken have been seen as food for the majority of our existence on this planet This may not be correct: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jun/06/chickens-were-first-tempted-down-from-trees-by-rice-research-suggests https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jun/06/chickens-wer...
- MiddleEndian 4y agoSeeing that colorful jungle fowl reminds me of a conversation I had with my friend about pigeons and doves. We consider doves to be an "elegant" bird, all white, used in religious imagery and magicians' tricks, and so on, while we consider pigeons to be a "dirty" bird, mostly known for scavenging food in cities, even though they're basically the same type of bird. People chase them around for fun. But if someone had only ever seen white doves and suddenly saw a much more colorful version of the bird that we call pigeons, they'd probably consider it to be the more fanciful, impressive-looking bird.
- Lio 4y agoDear, oh dear. Some of these chickens look like, er, deer. Nice work.
- smm11 4y agoNo possible way chickens literally aren't T-Rex.
- rexreed 4y agoAren't these just trail cam pictures?
- robga 4y agoChicken feed.
- pavel_lishin 4y agoAnother fun piece of chicken-centric art is Igorrr's Chicken Sonata: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFxDOV6IwHk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFxDOV6IwHk
- Kudos 4y agoWhen my postman activates my doorbell camera by approaching the door, is he taking a selfie? This is somewhat charming surveillance footage at best.
- dylan604 4y agoDid the imaging start when the mailman pushed the button?
- calibas 4y agoSome interesting legality here, if these photos are really "taken by chickens" then they can't be copyrighted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput... However, if this counts as being "taken by chickens" then it also implies that when a burglar triggers a motion-activated camera, the burglar owns the rights to the image.
- SV_BubbleTime 4y agoWhen I’ve rented cameras for photo shoots, I’m pretty sure I own the photos and not the rental company, so this checks out. Maybe the BUY NFT link on every photo goes to accounts the chickens own. Nothing about NFTs makes any less sense than this, so why not?
- situationista 4y agoIn my humble opinion, contrary to your claim a lot of things about NFTs make less sense than what you suggest
- annoyingnoob 4y agoAs long as the chickens follow the KYC rules (know your chicken) nothing is stopping them from opening crypto accounts.
- joshspankit 4y agoI feel like there’s a KFC joke within reach
- samspenc 4y agoIf the chickens and the owner followed KYC, then maybe they won't end up at KFC? (I misread KYC in the GP comment as KFC first until I read your comment.)
- WaitWaitWha 4y ago
- mdturnerphys 4y agoThere was a talk on this back in 2007: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk
- braingenious 4y agoThis was cool until I read about NFTs in the about section. What a bummer of a way to take a cool project and make it shitty.
- c23gooey 4y agoDon't let your distaste of crypto ruin a cool project otherwise
- braingenious 4y agoI’m sure it would be trivial to replicate this project without the weird world-burning money grab purpose. I’m perfectly happy to not support or share crypto cash grab schemes dressed up as wholesome little projects.
- adfjalkfja 4y agoIt's basically just a URL right, blame the PnD groups not the 'tech' imo
- braingenious 4y agoI have no idea what this sentence is trying to convey. Planning on using this to mint NFTs makes the purpose of this project financial gain, not some cutesy experiment. If anything, the whole “our stack is so minimal!” angle serves as a signal to crypto dorks that minting NFTs for profit is an accessible possibility with minimal necessary buy-in. This isn’t just a website with pictures of chickens. It is a for-profit advertisement for crypto with pictures of chickens.
- adfjalkfja 4y agoI don't see any problem with people selling their work / art however they want. Looks like he's sold a few for $20~ each, that's a bit different to the dumb cartoon monkey fad. IMO being completely anti-crypto is a waste of energy
- k__ 4y agoPretty cool idea for an NFT project. I love all the different things artists try in that space.
- Markoff 4y agoThese photos are not taken by chicken, they are taken by camera with motion sensor, camera will take photo of anything, no matter whether chicken, thief, deer or squirell. Misleading title. I was expecting I will see photos of chicken taken by chicken wearing GoPro, though dunno what would be trigger.
- zabowl 4y agoGreat and fun project! It would be nice if it had an rss feed too.