Empty London on Christmas morning (
full set).
A couple of years ago I had the idea that it might be fun to take photos of London without humans – yes, I was motivated by that scene in Westminster from 28 Days Later. Unfortunately, not being a film director I was not really in the position to have half of London sealed off for photos – but realised that on Xmas morning there could be an opportunity. Past photos
from 2010 and
from 2008.
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posted by ersatz
on Dec 30, 2011 -
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Storify is a new social media platform that makes it easy to assemble and winnow Flickr photos, tweets, Facebook posts, Google search results and URLS into a coherent story. It went into
public beta on April 25th.
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posted by msalt
on Apr 28, 2011 -
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As he travels the highways of America, courthouselover stops in every county and parish along the way to snap
a photo of its courthouse. "From the Prairie-style courthouses in the Dakotas to the antebellum beauties of Alabama, and from the Romanesque masterpieces of Central Texas and Indiana to the Mission style structures of New Mexico, they are all national treasures."
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posted by SpringAquifer
on Apr 17, 2011 -
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As your airline takes you from Point A to Point B, do you ever wonder about all the points in between? Enter
MondoWindow (in beta today), which mashes up satellite photos, air traffic data, wikipedia, and flickr to show where your plane is, and what's nearby on the earth below, provided your flight has wifi.
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posted by underthehat
on Mar 10, 2011 -
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Isaac Kehimkar's entire Flickr photostream is devoted to butterflies, because he's an "ardent butterfly lover".
posted by bwg
on Feb 7, 2011 -
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Flickr user
ElectroSpark collects and shares “random bits of vintage ephemera from mid-century vacationers,” with many in the form of charming round-cornered Kodachromes. In particular, his
Fairs & Expos set with its collection of holiday snapshots from Brussels ’58, New York ’64 and Expo ’67 in Montreal, are all from a by-gone era. The collection includes both
vintage graphics and
photos.
posted by netbros
on Dec 24, 2010 -
5 comments
ffffl*ckr — Use it to find the Flickr photos you like using the simple idea that people whose work you like, probably like stuff you'll like. You start with a set of pictures. If you authenticate, it'll use 20 of your last 100 favorites, otherwise it'll start with somebody else's favorites. Click any picture to load more. Don't like what that person likes? Scroll back and click a different picture you like.
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posted by netbros
on Oct 2, 2010 -
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On Wikipedia, Cultural Patrimony, and Historiography. "The Iraq War: A Historiography of Wikipedia Changelogs" is a twelve-volume set of all changes to the Wikipedia article on the Iraq War. The twelve volumes cover a five year period from December 2004 to November 2009, a total of 12,000 changes and almost 7,000 pages. The set is part of a project exploring history and historiography facilitated by the internet, and visualising information, opinion, narrative and discussion, by James Bridle.
posted by shakespeherian
on Sep 7, 2010 -
38 comments
Mag3737 (Tom Magliery) is a prolific flickr user with over 19,444 items uploaded. He
categorized his photographs into sets (right now there are about
350 of them), and into larger collections. See for example, the
Squircles (squared circle), the
Monochromatic squircles, the
Backsides and underthings page,
numbers,
letters,
colors, many more. Since he once heard that there were
37 holes in the mouthpiece of the old-fashion telephone, he used to collect fascinating factoids about the
number 37. Numerous other detours inside,
Flower genitelia,
Paul Bunyan's balls, etc. His
old-fashioned website is here.
posted by growabrain
on May 25, 2010 -
21 comments
