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iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 - 9:47 am: | |
An interesting thought:
http://koalapad.diaryland.com/070117_87.html |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 - 10:32 am: | |
Absolutely!
This is one of many bones I had to pick with de Zengotita's book, "Mediated." Quite apart from the fact that I found it a slangy garbled rant about reificiation by someone who seemed only to have heard of Guy De Bord (sic), he was insistent that the Net isolates and solipsises its users, rather than opening up a new world of communication as it had promised to do. Except for - well, MySpace; 925,000 blogs; links like the one above; and, um - here! |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 - 11:08 am: | |
I find Flickr really interesting. Unlike Myspace, which is rather too obsessed with the shallower aspects of networking, Flickr promotes a more tangential communication.
Each time you login, you see a thumbnail selection of your contacts' most recent pics, as well as the most recent photos submitted by all other members. These are in practice random - if you login, or refresh, a second later you will see a more recent snapshot.
These photos could be anything: sideways, irrational images from work Xmas parties, a bridge in India, a painting, a screenshot from someone's desktop... Something might grab your attention. You look at the other photos from that user and step into another world. As Travis's blog suggests, even where you cannot read the captions from the photos, you are momentarily looking through their eyes.
There is a wide range of levels of sophistication in the images uploaded onto Flickr, so it would probably be naive to consider this material unmediated. People play games with images, layers of editing and details of focus. Maybe that's what is appealing about it: it's like the internet as kindergarten, rather than Myspace's vision of the internet as playground - with all that this implies. |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 - 11:10 am: | |
You can see from the above that I have never been in a kindergarten! |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 - 1:43 pm: | |
This is it:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kanakoba84/366955831/ |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 - 1:54 pm: | |
Er - right.
But (apart from Duckula on a balcony, sideways on) what IS it?
2 billion years of evolution led up to a handcam owner who can't find horizontal?
Wouldn't have lasted an hour among the Cro-Magnons on the savannah in my day, I can tell you ...
*Remembers invention of fire, sudden arrival of mysterious black monolith, etc. Looks wistful* |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 - 3:11 pm: | |
Well, this is just it: her head's on sideways, she has a set of photos of a business trip to London, and you look at her profile and she declares that she "just likes taking pictures. That is all :-)".
Looking back there now: she has now put up a sideways pic of a wheelie bag in an anonymous hotel room:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kanakoba84/367003736/ |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 - 4:03 pm: | |
I think we can take this kindergarten thing a bit too far, y'know!
But is there - there must be - a site devoted to my usual level of snapshot, missing the heads?
Although it's maybe not such a good idea to Google or FreeSearch that image tag, come to think of it ... |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 - 10:16 pm: | |
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nmjj_sorensen/3683809 21/ |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, January 25, 2007 - 9:21 am: | |
So *that's* where babies come from!
Some sort ov gnostic joke, innit? |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, January 25, 2007 - 11:28 am: | |
http://www.flickr.com/photos/monkey69/368842832/ |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, January 25, 2007 - 11:30 am: | |
Nice rug ... |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, January 25, 2007 - 11:47 am: | |
http://tinyurl.com/2dgfnb |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, January 25, 2007 - 12:58 pm: | |
Meanwhile, in another part of the forest:
http://tinyurl.com/29crr3
- Space aliens. Why haven't they made contact yet ..? |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, January 25, 2007 - 1:11 pm: | |
"Of course, I didn't understand the book ..."
http://www.flickr.com/photos/openeye/6464930/ |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, January 25, 2007 - 2:02 pm: | |
http://flickr.com/photos/augrust/368941810/ |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 - 2:53 pm: | |
Fun!
A rather random assortment of images that this photographer has entitled "fun". It includes chillis, a foot, signs, architectural details...
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=fun&w=50828327%40N 00 |
dan
Username: dan
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Monday, March 12, 2007 - 5:06 pm: | |
I just came across this photoset, from somebody who had favourited one of my photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/penoni/sets/721575945 83387815/
I think these are my favourite photos I've ever seen. Proof of both the realism and magic of magical realism. |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 13, 2007 - 11:05 am: | |
http://www.videogramo.ws/
Extraordinary computer graphics. |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 13, 2007 - 11:10 am: | |
http://www.idealword.org/
This is good too. |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Friday, March 16, 2007 - 11:17 am: | |
Subway systems of the world, on the same scale:
http://www.fakeisthenewreal.org/subway/ |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Friday, June 15, 2007 - 9:16 am: | |
LOLMETALZ!!!!1!!
http://warehouse.carlh.com/article_141/
kthx bai! |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, July 19, 2007 - 2:40 pm: | |
Sometimes Flickr just comes up with the goods:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7793373@N08/851331811/ |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, July 19, 2007 - 5:02 pm: | |
*Waggles Groucho cigar*
Well, that's more than that link did!
Sorry, Zali: it didn't connect. Try it again? |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Friday, July 20, 2007 - 11:00 am: | |
Try this:
http://tinyurl.com/2qds2j
It's all just a bit Eurovision cabaret. |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Friday, July 20, 2007 - 11:19 am: | |
Schoolgirls with Costello!
Be still my beating heart, etc. |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 3:08 pm: | |
RIP
http://www.flickr.com/photos/offthetelly/127447591 7/ |
alex
Username: alex
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Friday, February 01, 2008 - 10:38 am: | |
I might have heard about this here, apologies if so.
http://ffffound.com |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Friday, February 01, 2008 - 2:46 pm: | |
No, not here. Sehr kule! |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Monday, February 04, 2008 - 2:56 pm: | |
What can I say? Not for vegetarians.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bringmespears/2241343 309/ |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - 1:36 pm: | |
Extraordinarily:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/3e/sets/7215760008950 9882/
- but no one's any the wiser:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 - 12:33 pm: | |
Airline spoons:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/airlinespoonlady/ |
mjp
Username: mjp
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 - 3:38 pm: | |
Give me a lever and I will move the world. So here is an idea, choose the bottom spoon (American airlines) and with alot of those little levers you can de-leverage the de-leveraging and so de-liver the world on a sixpence! Thank god. |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 - 4:52 pm: | |
At a chain restaurant in London I discovered that their cutlery was magnetic:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bitospud/506510905/
I can only assume that this is some sort of security device to prevent customers from stealing them rather than a form of entertainment.
A powerful enough magnet would cause untold destruction at Airline Spoon Lady's house. |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Monday, March 31, 2008 - 9:34 am: | |
All the blood in London:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa =0&msid=103813223147685278685.0004499363e419659bb3 4&ll=51.503614,-0.299377&spn=0.64796,1.277161&z=10 |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Monday, March 31, 2008 - 9:42 am: | |
Lambeth wins hands down. If you're doing the Lambeth walk take a flak jacket, hey! |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Monday, March 31, 2008 - 10:41 am: | |
And none in the City.
Astonishing, really. |
al
Username: al
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Monday, March 31, 2008 - 12:49 pm: | |
4 murders in my hood!
Yo, etc. |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 01, 2008 - 8:24 am: | |
Down those mean streets, etc.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ws/2008/04/01/nharman101.xml
Obviously taking a walk to the Gifco house round there - or something. |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 01, 2008 - 12:39 pm: | |
Old news, I'm sure - but I'd never heard of it:
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/London |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Friday, April 04, 2008 - 3:06 pm: | |
80s advert downloads.
http://www.x-entertainment.com/downloads/
US mostly, I think. |
dan
Username: dan
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 4:08 pm: | |
I had a fun night "shooting" celebrities last night at the Sheffield opening of the V&A's Vivienne Westwood exhibition. Here's my favourite photo of the night:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gulch/2532722947/
Compare to:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oddsock/100761143/ |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Friday, May 30, 2008 - 8:42 am: | |
And behind her, the realisation: this headband was a *mistake* ... |
dan
Username: dan
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Friday, May 30, 2008 - 4:01 pm: | |
I think it's actually a pearl necklace. Here's headband girl herself:
http://danshotme.com/galleries/2008-05-28_Vivienne _Westwood_exhibition_party/bin/images/large/_MG_55 62.jpg |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 04, 2008 - 3:02 pm: | |
Speaking of Flickr, as we were, very impressed by Flickr video. Much nicer, sharper quality than YouTube. Unfortunately, you are limited to 90 seconds:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/iotar/2550516541/ |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 04, 2008 - 3:03 pm: | |
Oh, and apologies I haven't been about much lately. Just been moving a library. Not finished yet. |
dan
Username: dan
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 04, 2008 - 3:24 pm: | |
You played the Enfield Campus Library closing party? Wow!
I'm still trying to get tickets for the Sheffield Hallam University Psalter Lane Campus closing party. Went to their final degree show "The Last Hurrah" last week, moving stuff. |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 04, 2008 - 3:34 pm: | |
There'll be all of these dronemusik librarians in a few years saying, "yeah, I was at the Enfield campus library closing party and it changed everything. It was like a call to arms. Two weeks later I bought an electric bouzouki and the rest is history." |
iotar
Username: iotar
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, June 12, 2008 - 9:19 am: | |
I like this guy:
http://www.gillesguias.com/2008/peinture/peinture_ p1.html |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, June 12, 2008 - 10:03 am: | |
Like Rothko, but representational: nice! |
martin
Username: martin
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Monday, July 28, 2008 - 5:22 pm: | |
The real thing - and its representation:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michael_hughes/sets/3 46406/show/ |