I guess Flickr has opened up its API to developers - and interesting things are starting to emerge - curated exhibitions, color matchers and more. Apparently I am late to notice all these cool things - but anyway, they're beautiful. Here are some picks:
Color Fields Experimental Colr Pickr - Jim Bumgardner (since my own tech skills are rudimentary, i haven't been able to figure out posting an image from the site - but i will soon).
Color Field Camera - Bjoern Hartmann. Blends live video data with flickr images that match the color of the object in the center of the viewfinder. It combines a web cam and a 2.5" Color LCD screen in a vintage 1950s snapshot camera case. The Color Field Cam won "Best Flickr Hack" at the Yahoo! Open Hack Day on 10/01/2006.
The winning project from Hack Day was by a group known as Black Box Nation - a group of three women working with sewing machines, soldering irons, nokia 6682s, pedometers, Flickr and the Zonetag API. They collectively put together a handbag that took a picture with a camphone every few steps and used Zonetag to upload it to Flickr and turn it into a life-recording weblog. It even geotagged the photos as it went. You can see the Flickr stream of the handbag to this day and there's a site about it the whole project at Blogging in Motion. (Thanks to PlasticBag.org for the write-ups.)
At the SFAC Gallery, Takes on Flickr. Part of Breakthrough: An Amateur Photography RevolutionApril 20 - June 16, 2007 .
The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery presents a multi-faceted exhibition and a panel discussion examining the new digital environment that has revolutionized the way photographers shoot, store and share images. Our examination centers on the empowered digital communities fostered by two Bay Area enterprises that are helping to define and push the boundaries of how images live within a virtual ecosystem.
Exhibition:
In the South Gallery- JPG Magazine: Community and Opportunity In partnership with the SFAC Gallery, the JPG Magazine community tackles the theme Breakthrough in a multimedia exhibition that celebrates global participation and exposes the editorial process. An accompanying feature will appear in JPG's May issue.
In the North Gallery- Takes on Flickr Six leading Bay Area curators explore the expansive Flickr community and emerge with image-sets that reflect unexpected thematic threads and a diverse array of photographic styles.
Curators: Rebeca Bollinger, Heather Champ, Joseph del Pesco, Chuck Mobley, Renny Pritikin, and Terri Whitlock.
Curators: Rebeca Bollinger, Heather Champ, Joseph del Pesco, Chuck Mobley, Renny Pritikin, and Terri Whitlock.
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I had a look round the SFAC exhibition this weekend - and have to say - was slightly disappointed. The concept is so full of potential - particularly in context of all the interesting applications that developers are noodling on, but perhaps the curators were overwhelmed, confused, or otherwise uninspired? I was hoping for more - because I know there's so much material out there. Only Joseph Del Pesco's selections seemed interesting. He had chosen photographs of exhibitions/installations he wished he'd been to. Nice. Another take on the theme, "An Exhibition of Exhibitions".
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