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Algorithmically generated sparse slashes of blue, black, and purple pixel blobs, generously spaced from one another, against a soft light gray solid background

craigslist_ new york jobs, apartments, for sale, services, community, and events.html

Craigslist.org’s homepage, whose design has virtually unchanged since 2000

The Subject of this Portrait

At the time this portrait was created, the subject was available online at web.archive.org/web/20231030160055/https://newyork.craigslist.org/ 

The text on the page begins, ‘Craigslist, create a posting, search craigslist New York,’ followed by a directory of plain, blue links.
Screenshot of craigslist.org on 10/10/2023

Attributes

Subject Name
craigslist_ new york jobs, apartments, for sale, services, community, and events.html
Subject Creation Date
10/10/2023
Subject Weight
2,968,544 bytes (3 MB)
Subject Location
web.archive.org/web/20231030160055/https://newyork.craigslist.org/
Entities in Portrait
1 Directory, 7 Files
Entity Types in Portrait
CSS, HTML, JS,
Portrait Type
Group

Portrait Details

Detail shot of an algorithmically generated stream of contiguous purple and blue strands of pixels on the bottom, independent blue and black pixel blobs at the top of the frame with two small blue dots of pixels islands between them; all against a soft light gray solid background
Portrait detail
Screenshot of different shades of royal blue to violet organically shaped strands of pixels looking as thought they’re flying through the air, against a soft light gray solid background
Portrait detail
Screenshot of a piercing ray of algorithmically generated blue pixels slices downward separating a sparsely populated black pixel blob from a blue pixel mass, all against a soft light gray solid background
Portrait detail
Screenshot of a zoomed in mostly solid mass of pure black clumped and connected pixels, with a soft light gray solid background shining through the available negative spaces
Portrait detail

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Documentation of this internet-native artwork is stored permanently on blockchain should future changes in web-based technologies affect how it displays.

Permalink
arweave.net/Il61GnDHaRcdqpmXt1uU0xGrSxYmvLaG1AdvKnEiL0o
Format
image/png
Resolution
2880 x 5120
Transaction
viewblock.io/arweave/tx/Il61GnDHaRcdqpmXt1uU0xGrSxYmvLaG1AdvKnEiL0o

Artist
Eric Corriel

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