creativity/machine

Category: flickr

  • Deuze in conversation with Bauman, plus Cosmopolitan Cultural Citizenship and Flickr

    Mark Deuze has been thinking, writing, and exchanging ideas with Zygmunt Bauman about liquid modernity, ‘community’ and the Internet, and I’ve been following along with Mark as he works through his ideas. This is the latest Bauman quote, in context here:

  • CSAA Abstract

    Following the more timely examples of the two Mels (here is one, and here is the other) I (somewhat belatedly) have just submitted an abstract for this year’s CSAA conference, which will be held in sunny Canberra. I had the idea months ago but couldn’t wrangle it into a pithy enough form until now, plus…

  • flickr meetup

    Yesterday I finally made it to my first Brisbane flickr meetup, which is part of my fieldwork but also a nice way to spend a Sunday afternoon. We met at the Regatta, hopped on the citycat and went downriver to the University of Queensland, where we wandered along the riverbank up to the construction site…

  • The cultural politics of flickr tags

    This is from the preliminary stages of a little textual analysis experiment I’m thinking about designing. It’s to do with the way that ‘architectures of information’ invite particular forms of subjecthood, particular constellations of values, and particular kinds of participation, and those forms of participation in turn work to shape the architecture in their own…

  • flickrtags

    Last (but hopefully not best) sentence of the day: The ‘most popular tags’ cloud is characterised by the convergence of the most predictable subjects of vernacular photography – places, family, birthdays, weddings – with muted versions of the structurating categories of capital ‘P’ photography – technology (canon, film, black&white) and genre (art, portrait). Current thesis…

  • more video-sharing thingies

    Online editing, rich ‘folksonomy’ and community-building features would seem to be essential components of whatever is going to be the ‘flickr of video’, i.e. the default destination for video ‘sharing’. (That is, if there will be such a thing – remembering the very specific circumstances of flickr’s emergence, which have a lot to do with…

  • A Study of Interestingness and Note Spamming

    Interesting indeed. You have to suspect that it was a case of any excuse for a geeky nude-up, though.

  • tilt-shift

    Josh told me about the photoshop fake tilt-shift technique, so I had to try to it over the weekend. I got kind of addicted for a day or so, and this is one of the results.

  • transparent screens @ flickr

    Transparent Screen – alexy Originally uploaded by w00kie. This is not a photoshop trick, believe it or not…kewl.

  • flickr gets snapped up

    So now that SixApart owns LiveJournal, and Google owns Blogger, what next? The rumours were true, Yahoo has bought Ludicorp and flickr. They say the API will remain open, so let’s wait and see…