Streetfiles.org

Streetfiles Mobile is an alternative Streetfiles version especially made for mobile phones. If you browse Streetfiles from your smart phone such as an IPhone, Android/G1, Nokia/Symbian you will be redirected to http://m.streetfiles.org where you find a lo-tech pocket version of Streetfiles featuring:

• easy navigation
• reduced features (just browsing)
• fast loading

We are sorry but this is not the IPhone-Streetfiles-App (yet). It's not possible right now to upload photos directly from your Phone to Streetfiles. Although it's a first Step.

We are curious what you think. As usual we ask you to: report bugs, give feedback, request other important features.

Photos tagged with "Michael Jackson".

a not accepted photo

Streetfiles is an ongoing open experiment. It is free and open for everybody. Streetfiles is like the streets, everyone can do stuff here, but only the good will make it to the top pages.

But let's face it: A lot of crap gets uploaded. Take a look at the most recent uploads. YES, we have the powerful filters and YES Streetfiles is social and YES we love toys. We all started as toys and we really know that "every piece tells a story". BUT: quite often two or more criterias come together:

• Poor JPG quality: the photo was produced by some (1mp) mobile phone cam and is full of artefacts;
• Bad photo quality: back light conditions, no contrast, all grey in grey, i.e.;
• No photo composition: no nice perspective, no nice area, no nice surroundings or surfaces (such as hot girls);
• Boring letters: just another uninteresting style;
• No statement: no talent, no idea, nothing to say, not special at all;
• No metatags: Streetfiles is database driven, if you title your photos something like this "*" and don't tell us where and what it is, it will never be found. The searchbar is an important navigation here.

No one takes care of all these uninterersting photos, not even the members friends. We have about 12.000 photos here that got viewed only one or two times. We have no meaningful purpose for all the uninteresting photos (beside a field investigation or a huge mosaic photo wallpaper). They cost us webspace.

We (streetfiles admins) discussed that topic and came to the conclusion: We will decline more photos in the future and also will delete some old photos. We hope you understand this. Feel free to leave your opinion in a comment here.

Please mind that we will never discuss with you why some photo was not accepted. Read the Community Guidelines and FAQs one more time.

UPDATE: Here is how we like the Photos

• Nice Perpectives: cool angles, a great mix of graff and surrounding background;
• Fresh Styles: we don't care if it is Anti, Retro, Wild or Block, as long it is fresh;
• Long Descriptions: tell us the story behind that shot, also give us Metatags;
• All kind of Innovations: new and interesting stuff as long as it is related, we like city views, street art, yard shots, tags ...;
• High Quality: maximum filesize, best jpg-quality, adjusted levels.

BTW: It is technical not possible anymore to upload a photo that was already declined before.

photo by shlomo faber

There is a real website lover out there!
He/she loves woostercollective.com, just.blogsport.de, ekosystem.org, rebelart.net and also streetfiles.org. Check the photos

Some reactions:

• eko: http://www.ekosystem.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=6004
• wooster: http://www.woostercollective.com/2009/04/wooster_on_a_train_seen_in_dresden_germa.html
• just: http://just.blogsport.de/2009/05/18/i- justblogsportde/
• alain of rebelart: http://www.rebelart.net/diary/?p=1406

We love it too!

photo by movel

Overall we are very sophisticated with our members. Most of you act really cool. We love your humor and the way you treat each other. But: still a very few need to rise attention by acting creepy. To be honest: this website is fragile. We do not have the power to control everything and we really don't want to.

From time to time we get a mail from some member that someone wrote bullshit and if we please could block this account. When we look at the communication we see that both wrote bullshit and that it is really hard to tell who started that. It's just like with little kids: "He started that", "No, she started that.", "No, he!", "No, she!" … We definitly will not discuss any of your problems with you.

Please behave cool. Stop wasting our time. If you do not, we might have to develop a feature where one could block other users from writing messages and comments. We would rather like to develop other cool features first.

• Read the Community Guidelines again

P.S. Please don't upload photos that have been rejected again. We also can write a filter that checks if the photo was uploaded (and rejected) before. But that again would make us work.

Normally we hate websites that play music. Enjoy the silence. This and other Mixtapes at Just.

Spin around! The player above is interactive use your mouse inside to turn around 360°.

Which websites prints and exhibit your photos?
You are right: Streetfiles strikes again!

As part of the Islandea Exhibition (Graffest) in Gdańsk, Poland about 1.000 selected Streetfiles photos (ie 1% of the database files) are shown. That is an impressive amount, but also an illustration of the versatility of the works on Streetfiles. Only photos under Creative Commons licence were printed. Below each photo the address on Streetfiles.org (URL), the member name and the title are stated. The original uploaded sizes were used, this is why the quality varys a bit.

The Islandea vernissage was last saturday, the 16th of may, 2009. If you are in that area: you still have the chance to see it, the exhbition will go on for about another 3 weeks. There are a lot of great works by artists such as: Point, Zedz, Viagrafik, Blu, Nunca, Finsta, Blu, Visual Hijack, Van Laak, Chinken and many more.

The location of the project is worth a visit. The institute is located in the old shipyard of Gdańsk, a historical place. There are quite a few pieces outside.

• More Photos of the Graffest on Streetfiles
• Islandea subsite some nice time lapses (but strange navigation)

Just a short notice:
On friday the 8th of may 2009 the 100.000th photo got uploaded here on Streetfiles. Sorry, We can't say which photo it was or when exactly. We had a nice little barbeque party here.

Meanwhile we are preparing our trip to poland. Currently we are busy pasting 1.000 photos on cardboard.

Overall we admins are very pleased with our members. We really like the fact that you are all friendly and that there is nearly no hassle going on. This makes everything really easy for us.

But there is one thing that makes a lot of work: Some people steal photos from other websites such as: farbsucht, flickr and fotolog and upload them as their own. It's really hard for us to find out whether a photo is stolen or not. We try to delete all stolen photos.

Please read our Community Guidelines again, think and upload only your own photos.

By popular demand: It is now possible to change settings for all your previously uploaded photos at once.

1. once logged in, navigate to your member account (http://streetfiles.org/my/)
2. Click on Settings (http://streetfiles.org/my/settings)
3. Click on Photo Defaults (http://streetfiles.org/my/settings/photo/)
4. To apply changes on all your uploads: choose your option and click on update all uploaded photos
5. You can change: download settings, comments, privacy settings & license.