Flickr Communities

Bliu Flickr


A picture of someone using flickr to see a picture of someone else using flickr to see a picture of someone else using flickr to see a picture of someone else using flick to see a ...... ad infinitum.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/infinite/


Mappr is an interactive environment for exploring place, based on the photos people take. By adding geographical information to the wealth of photographs found on Flickr, it allows new ways of looking at spaces and images. Mappr adds place to pictures.
http://www.mappr.com/about/


A photo on Flickr of a bit of chalked graffiti in an alley of Newcastle made a group of mad Newcastle residents create flickr-esque nonsense suggesting other Fickrites should add their own contributions…
http://www.wackylabs.net/2005/07/flickrwall-flickr-project-in-newcastle/


The Scholar's Box is a tool that gives users gather/create/share functionality, enabling them to gather resources from multiple digital repositories in order to create personal and themed collections and other reusable materials that can be shared with others for teaching and research.
http://www.sitegeist.com/horizon/


retrievr is an experimental service which lets you search and explore in a selection of Flickr images by drawing a rough sketch.
http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr/about


The group is for discussing tips and methods of adding "geotags" aka location metadata to flickr images, Discussing locations on the geobloggers map worth checking out, Discussing the Geobloggers.com website and features etc.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/geotagging/


A neat idea, started by Flickr frequentr Michel Benard: 2005 September 29 - a day on Earth.

The idea behind this photo group is to encourage as many people as possible from around the world to post one photo from one day. A collective snapshot of the planet Earth.
http://forestfortrees.edublogs.org/2005/09/29/an-emerging-flickr-community-of-practice/


The goal of this group is to post a clock face for every minute around the clock, in chronological order. When run in slideshow mode at 1 second intervals, this should give us a working 12 minute clock!
http://www.flickr.com/groups/clockworks/


Top 10 Ways to Improve Flickr, Almost Certainly the Best Online Photo Management and Sharing Application in the World
http://flickrnation.com/2005/11/top-10-ways-to-improve-flickr-almost.html


Fastr is a game that uses flickr images. It loads ten images that all share a common tag, one by one, and you guess what the tag is. When you guess right, the tag will turn blue. Then you can watch the pictures until the next set begins. The faster you guess, the more points you get. The points are reset every six minutes.
http://randomchaos.com/games/fastr/about/


The photos are picked entirely at random - if it's visible to the public, it's game!
http://www.krazydad.com/gustavog/FlickRandom.html


The idea is to "curate" someone's photostream on Flickr with the goal of articulating their style or a common theme or thread of artistic vision with a smaller collection of photos you choose as if you were curating an exhibit of their work in a gallery or museum.
http://ravengrrl.blogspot.com/2006/01/most-exciting-flickr-project.html


About Katrina Relief Auction - Total Donations To Date: $19,553.01

flickr members donated prints to be auctioned off to the highest bidder. To offer aid and assistance to the victims of Huricane Katrina, all donations were made directly to the following charitable organizations...

• Habitat for Humanity
• The United Way
• The Americares Foundation, and
• The Humane Society of the United States

http://www.flickr.com/groups/katrina_auction/


Flickr should publish The Flickr Book. Similar in style to Phaidon's The Photo Book it would also highlight 500 photographs from 500 photographers on Flickr. The kicker is that all of these photographs would come from Flickr's Explore selection and would be selected by a panel of editors at Flickr (Stewart, Caterina, Heather, whoever else, etc.). The quality of the book would be high and the price modest -- also like The Photo Book. A "The Photo Book" Flickr mashup -- very cool.
http://flickrnation.com/2006/01/introducing-flickr-book.html

Meta-Harmonicking

Phasing and Harmonics...

My meditative raptures
Lulled into melodies
Harmonies that are never forgotten

The mission was to be simple...
Using the basics of math
To produce a simple, elegant musicking

I watched but mainly listened to my 14 min video of this piece
I shared with my friends, who generally could not take it in
at its entirety
But above is my meta-harmonicking of this piece
Taking screenshots of the video
Randomly collecting images of the synchronize and the asynchronize
Then creating a circle to emulate its process
It all comes back in full circle...

This was a MUSE...
Many intros or segments of a song
in my music collection
Are all that I want to hear.
I get trapped into my own harmonics.
I've always wanted to combine all those intros and segments...

I guess I really just want to be a DJ
But my hesitance comes from having to choose
Between DJ/VJing and DANCEing
Maybe I can combine the two...

steim is an avant-garde source for electronic performance
It all started at CHI '05 (Human Factors in Computing conference)
With Michel Waisvisz...the closing plenary
I was fortunate to be one of the few to obtain a Cracklebox
and perform with it at the conference.
But it was all about The HANDS
Slip these on your hands and
You now have control over your music
The pitch, the rhythm, anything
And a mic is attached to it for some live human sounds
That soon gets warped into electronica madness.

And I could never forget this musical instrument made from everyday found objects...
Pouring tea from the teapot into the cups makes the musica...
But when some kids were playing with it, they decided to pour the tea all over the machinary...Which apparently made some amazing musicking sounds...

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Antin Bootin'

100 BOOTS
100 BOOTS wandering
100 BOOTS wandering with narratives

It's placement,
It's location,
It's context,
Conjures up humanistic activities.

Maybe we need to reappropriate found objects, everyday objects
To remind ourselves of our
Conformance
Convergence
Communality

So what about SCULPTING or rather CARVING...
Losing weight from one's own body
Now that's an avant-garde sculpture
It is the most traditional sculpture (with the human body)

We are all sculptors...
We carve everyday...
From our daily washes
To our daily groomings
But our most potent carving comes from the FOOD we intake

And a note about narratives...
We must not forget
The Present Moment
The NOW
The Real Time Narratives
We must not be trapped and dragged by our memories
Life Goes On...

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Holzer and Kolster Remix...

Network Collaboration

This is what THRIVES
We must take advantage of our networks
It is what holds us together
It is through our CONNECTIONS
It is how we relate

We are a networked community
Our desires lie in exploring
Exploring each other's data

Creating CONTEXT...
To every LOCATION lies
SOUNDs, IMAGEs
smells, tastes, TOUCHs

Digital media has overcome some capturings of
SOUNDs and IMAGEs
Yet, TOUCHs are nearly there
But, we still need capture the extreme ephemerals...
Smells and Tastes

But the more context we create
The more layers we incorporate
The closer we are in tapping into the 6th Sense...
INTUITION
That feeling
of familiarity,
of affinity,
of understanding...

We must not close too many doors of our senses...
When we present, when we share, when we jam
We must be OPEN
We must explore all inputs to allow flexible outputs

But it is about
Amplifying specific Elements
and
Emphasizing what is Interesting
and
Looping the micro Instant
in order to
Cultivate the Ambiance...

Meta-Morphing

I've really fallen in love with morphing.
Maybe it's the subtle flow of changing...
Maybe it's the visual force of relating one image to another...
Maybe it's the middle image(s) created by the morph
That's what's most interesting...

I was addicted to this video...
I watched it over and over again...
I wanted to see every subtle change in the morphing...
So I took screen capture shots of every morph
That seemed the most distinct, the most unique, the most interesting...
And put them into this grid together.

This is my attempt at Meta-Morphing...

Seeing Sounds, Hearing Images...

Capturing details from urban locations
Capturing and transforming small, unnoticed sounds from various natural and urban locations
Visualizing fragments of stories of these environments
Time-based media (video, film, photography, audio?)
Observational disciplines (journalism, documentary & archeology)
Networked collaboration strategies
Experiments in improvisational sound

Reviving the hidden sounds and images
in our everyday objects,
in our immediate environment, and
in the air around us
Make live improvisations which
Respond directly to the world around us and the objects close at hand
Connecting sounds and images to a specific location, creating a context

Process-based work
No set conclusions, no predetermined end-points
Relying on our daily experiences to guide us

Creating an audiovisual journey
Online, collaborative soundscape project

Inspire curiosity and
Exploration of one’s own environment

A dreamlike journey in a live improvisation
Where sound and image are interrelated

Found objects used to generate the visions and sounds

Actively participate in the
Free and Open source communities

Instinctively feel the economic and political context of microsound

Taking field recordings from all over the world
Making the distant more local
And the local more distant

Sound exercise:
For the next 29 seconds or 29 minutes…
Observe, Listen, Hear, Experience
the Sounds around you
Only focus on sounds
Find it hard to not use your other senses?
Do some sounds always associate with an image?

An Interface to the Global
Algorithmic Mix
“Pure”, uncomposed sounds
Sharing sound information about one’s environments through divergent channels
Enact a collective soundscape

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