stolenstrategies: A great idea for a Flickr group. From the group rules:
things that have been translated into code.
images must be split into inspiration and outcome.
real thing on the left, coded thing on the right.
by Flickr user Quasimondo
Boundaries from flickr georeferencing: Tom Taylor has created a map displaying neighborhood data based on geotagged Flickr photos.
eiðibýli: A bunch of Icelandic houses.
Photos tagged with null: It’s a null set.
Clusters of photos tagged with rad: Don’t worry, I’ve already named my next band The Rad Clusters.
Pictures of actors portraying architects in movies
Sepia No More: The Medium, on Flickr’s often-overprocessed style.
As art-school photographers continue to shoot on film, embrace chiaroscuro and resist prettiness, a competing style of picture has been steadily refined online: the Flickr photograph. …
Rebekka Guoleifsdottir, one of Flickr’s most popular photographers, is the leading exponent of the site’s style. An art student from Iceland who turned to social networking to acquire commissions for her drawings, she came to photography relatively late. Tellingly, she learned to work Flickr before she became proficient with a camera. She discovered how to create the minicollections called “photostreams”; how to create images that would look good shrunk, in “thumbnail” form; and how to flirt with the site’s visitors in the comments area to keep them coming back. As perhaps is always the case with artists, Guoleifsdottir’s evolution as a photographer was bound up in the evolution of her modus operandi, a way of navigating the institutions and social systems that might gain her a following and a living.
First Wedding - my strobist experience: Advice for photographing a wedding.
Although the post claims the Rhizome logo is generated anew with each page view, it doesn’t seem to work anymore.
Other generative logos:
A recent report comparing six alternatives for crossing the Thames found cable cars the most sustainable option.
Cable cars are increasingly used for mass transit in world cities and across rivers because they need little space, have virtually no waiting time, can run at over 20mph, and have very low emissions. They are already used in New York, Istanbul, Vancouver, Madrid, Caracas and Hamburg, and other cities are planning systems. A cable car has crossed the Rhine in Cologne since 1957.
Conan O’Brien rode on the Rhine cable car during his 1997 visit to Cologne (fast forward to about 1:21).
“You’re a museum, right? You’re not an outreach summercamp. You’re not an Imax theatre lobby. You’re not a social networking iPhone app. Be a museum. And try harder not to suck at it.”
The intro post to this blog was bookmarked by migurski who found it via straup.
A New Orleans architect has organized a partnership between Dutch and Louisiana engineers, planners, and scientists.
History repeatedly shows the folly of living in a delta: disasters are common there. …
“Living with the water” has recently become an ordering, corollary principle of Dutch policy. Dutch Dialogues participants believe that adapting a Living with the Water principle is necessary in post-Katrina New Orleans; they likewise reject the false choice posited by those who see only a choice between safety or amenity from water in the Louisiana delta.
One of these “will run radios, fans, and small wattage lights all night, or give you about 5 hours of continuous use at 115 volt AC, or about an hour boiling water.” That’s great, but I’m more interested in this design’s ability to scale-up with the addition of larger components; I’m guessing the price grows exponentially as you increase capacity.
(Originally posted to rain.org.)
Information aesthetics asks its readers for the names of some good infographics-related academic programs.
There are four example formats for blurts that I want to consider here, although there are many others floating about that I could have discussed. They are: 1) facebook status updates, 2) twitter’s tweets, 3) moves in signtific’s forecasting games, and 4) comments in Tim Gowers’ mathematical blog. Each has a different character but each shows how the properties of length, rapidity, and openness can play into a successful conversation.
The author equates blurts to a form of brainstorming in which the participants—and not a moderator—shape the structure of the conversation.
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