Another tricky one from 2008. if I ever manage to restore my old hard drive from pre-art school, I will dig deeper. The oldest reference I can find to this image was actually from ffffound, so you know how that goes. Looks like it did the rounds on Tumblr as well, which is probably where I stole it from in 2008.
Date Stolen: 02 June 2008
Date Posted: unknown.
Link: http://ffffound.com/image/4180b4f3abf1fb37290ecf97d2cc4d49aa3677d3 (dead)
Screenshot: 03 June 2026
This one is tricky, so I might have to revisit it. The earliest I can find is a deviant art image, but my file was saved more than a year before. to add an extra wrinkle, my file has exif data, but that is missing the date it was taken. to be continued.
Date Stolen: 11 January 2008
Date Posted: 26 March 2009 (posted after I stole it? dont think so...)
Link: https://www.deviantart.com/gloomwriter/art/Barb-Wire-Baseball-Bat-Stock-117113607
Screenshot: 18 May 2026
had to make a quick logo for this new llllost project.
its a play on ffffound. RIP ffffound.
llllost is going to be a series of posts where I try to track down the origin of images in my "stolen images" folder.
I started doing something similar on my now defunct konbini blog, but I never got far. I was doing 10 at a time, but this format will just focus on 1 image, that I try to reverse image search and find the origin of...
This image,[080924-08924-1980-01-01_stolen-image_stolen-1] ,was stolen in 2008, rings true today 18 years later.
Turns out it's from a web comic, called "Three Panel Soul" published September 22nd, 2008.
Ian McConville, was the artist. Matthew Boyd, the writer.
It was published here: https://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/on-sober-analysis
here is a screenshot of the page that I was able to load on 260515 (including the ad that was on the page):
