Darius Kazemi
randomshopper.tumblr.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2012
Darius Kazemi, a creator of bots and internet art, documents Random Shopper, a bot that buys random items from Amazon each month.
What HN saysHN commenters link it as the documentation for the Random Shopper project, praising it as a creative idea that brings back some web serendipity.
16HN people shared it
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Most-shared posts
- 1Bot written to buy random things each month from Amazon7 people · 223 points · first shared 2012 · 95 comments on HN
- 2Randomized Consumerism - A bot that buys randomly from Amazon7 people · 9 points · first shared 2012 · 1 comments on HN
- 3Random Shopper — Shipment 1: Linguistics and Dissonance1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 4Addressing a criticism1 people · first shared 2012
What HN people wrote when they linked it
than · 2013-12-06
I love stuff like this.
It brings back a bit of the serendipity that we've lost on the web due to the quality of a certain search company's algorithms.
See also: Random Shopper — http://randomshopper.tumblr.com — and the Random Amazon Product Generator — http://thanland.com/projects/random-amazon/ (disclosure: my site)
carsonreinke · 2014-11-05
Looks like he has written tons of very creative bots. They are all very interesting ideas (e.g. http://randomshopper.tumblr.com)
bergie · 2014-07-03
He has been posting some of the monthly shipments in his blog: http://randomshopper.tumblr.com/
lmm · 2013-03-19
It's documented at http://randomshopper.tumblr.com/ FWIW.
morelisp · 2022-12-15
You may enjoy Amazon Random Shopper.
https://randomshopper.tumblr.com/post/35454415921/randomized-consumeri…
distances · 2017-08-07
Someone built a similar thing a couple of years ago to get random things from Amazon: http://randomshopper.tumblr.com/post/35454415921/randomized-consumeris…
wpietri · 2014-11-11
This is a play on Darius Kazemi's Amazon Random Shopper: http://randomshopper.tumblr.com/post/35454415921/randomized-consumeris…
freshhawk · 2012-12-12
Exactly.
It would be difficult for me to defend the statement "random consumerism isn't art" and quite easy to say "random consumerism is shitty narcissistic art"
I think the art/artists subject came up from this post on the blog: http://randomshopper.tumblr.com/post/36593869254/addressing-a-criticis…
ErikAugust · 2012-12-11
I think that's what it does: http://randomshopper.tumblr.com/post/35454415921/randomized-consumeris…
It also bought him a Chomsky book on Linguistics and a electronic music CD. And if the bot did that on it's own that'd be a little too spooky.