English things

A set of brand-name English food product illustrations.

See also the set of two Scottish things.

tomc's bookmarks tagged Flickr

LCC bomb damage maps: I have only one alert set up in Ebay, to be notified whenever anybody puts up for sale The London County Council Bomb Damage Maps 1939-45. Just last year one copy sold for almost $300. The pictures linked here are free and right here on my computer screen. That’s even better than interlibrary loan.

Portishead: Magic Doors Audio DNA 3: A nifty, circular visualization created using Processing.

User Privacy Settings By Geography: A Flickr Study: I’m not sure how this data was collected but if the author’s claim is correct—that each of the map markers represents a sample of one million Flickr users—then it’s a revealing study of online privacy norms.

mtchl's bookmarks tagged Flickr

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

fakeisthenewreal's bookmarks tagged Flickr

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

hawktrainer's bookmarks tagged Flickr

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.