disclaimer, before heading on: i'm not sure how i feel about it to be honest. it's ok i suppose. decent. but it feels uninspired, at this point: traditional, expected.
yes, i love the site, what it does, what it shows. the name itself doesn't titilate me further, doesn't add to my enjoyment- i think. although i enjoy a little glibness, a little playfulness. it still is kind of manufactured. abandonedporn, architectureporn, cableporn, conduitporn, engineeringporn, futureporn, .... how many varieties of thing-"porn" do i need?
my core meta-analysis? i do think the whole internet is as a local maxima where attaching -pron or -porn or -pr0n to the end of any subject is how we say "pretty pictures". i get it, it gets the point, "in your dreams", but like, we're deep into Simulacra & Simulation territory, third degree: simulacra now precedes reality, the signified becomes meaningless. porn itself, real porn, is often unreal, often part simulation, but it still is second order, still signified a real. unmooring ourselves from sex, using porn to just mean, "hardly believable attractive take" on a thing, it's a direct enough disassociation, it makes sense. but it's also tiring to me, exhausting, that we have no other frames of desire or beauty we can hitch ourselves to.
i wouldn't mind finding some other ways to anchor ourselves, meaning. i want whimsy, i think there is "something" added by the playfulness, the bending of meaning. reviewing, i think i'm being kind of cantankerous in my assessment. but it does seem like we're low on good options. that this space could use some inspiration & opening.