Drop Your Line (a.k.a 'zinelips')
About the project
The "Drop Your Line (digital cultural highway bathroom)" is an open space where anonymous visitors could:
Technically
- just write a sentence (simple text)
- use Html, Php, Asp, JavaScript or other kinds of script languages supported by this server (win 2003)
- using coding, put down links to other pages, or images, or any other kind of media files
- or i don't know...
Theoretically
- write about their daily life
- about love and peace
- lies
- your diary
- send messages to the creator
- send bad words to the creator
- leave messages in the bottle (link at the bottom of the page...)
- feel like Gods
- drop down phone number to find sexual relationships
- pray
- copy & paste is almost disallowed
- scream
- stream
- loose their time
- find their way
- loose their time finding their way
- be upset
- make up their mind
- shows to people their skills with code
- think that someone else will read the lines
- cry out
- be bored
- use it as a guestbook
- smash rules down
- publish their advertisements
- publish everythings
- sell stuff
- use it as a bathroom wall
- crash the server
- yell about washing dishes and clothes
- project it on a building
- be themselves
- and many many many many
- many
- many
- other things....
How was it born?
It was developed by Andrea Gabriele as to have a place where to write down thoughts, because of his fucked up memory.
So it's born as a personal space, finally (immediatly) opened to everyone.
How does it work?
Each lines, is stored into a database as a new record.
The page load two times the records choosing them randomly and placing them randomly into an hidden layer. The dimension of the layer grow up together with the total amout of records stored into the database.
The font size of your lines is also random.
So what does it mean?!
It means that the space of the page increase together with you.
That your lines could be showed or not. Maybe the next time...
That your lines could be very little, or very big.
That this page is always different, and it will never be the same.
That it is socially useless, but necessary as well.
It doesn't mean anything but it could be everything as well.
Do Google knows it?
Yes. The page is read by Google crowlers.
How can i see it?
Click on the image abow. Or here.
How can i drop my line?
Click on the image abow. Or here.
Why that page is named "images.asp"?
Because the creator didn't had the chance to rename it.