Fulcrum by Richard Serra, London, England
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The App Garden on Flickr brings together all the “home grown” applications created with the Flickr API. API’s allow developers to write programs using public data – photos, video, tags, profiles or groups – that allow you to explore Flickr’s content in new and different ways.
Suggestify is a new application for Flickr that allows you to suggest geotags for photos using a clean and simple map-based interface. The project, while still in beta or what the developer Aaron Land calls the “alpha-beta-disco-disco-danceball-revolution stage,” is an exciting step forward towards developing new ways to describe a photo’s location.
Read more on the blog IndiCommons
behold allows you to browse flickr for images that are free to use and modify or circulate commercially. This search tool simplifies the process of determining limits of use while enabling the user to access a wide range of photographs taken and published by amateurs and professionals the world over.
Learn how to share images with other faculty, staff and students via the UTSOA’s Flickr group by watching the video posted on YouTube.
The SOA Photo Union will be open to students for free during the fall 2009 semester (there are a few spots still open). In order to use the facilities students (undergraduate and graduate) have to sign up at the Visual Resources Collection (SUT 3.128) or send an e-mail to the address below.
We are officially reopening the (Black and White Print) Photo Lab (SUT 1.104) in October. In the following weeks, more information will be sent out concerning workshops, group printings, and competitions we are planning. Please contact the new Photography TA at tahinee@gmail.com for more information or to sign up. We have also published a new Facebook Page, please become a fan by searching: “University of Texas School of Architecture Photo Union”
We hope you can join us!
Joseph Pintz, Joined Drain Tile (detail), Earthenware, 2008
accessCeramics was awarded a $10,000 grant for “Access to Artistic Excellence” from the National Endowment for the Arts. accessCeramics, organized by the Visual Resources Collection of Watzek Library, Lewis & Clark College, is a collection of over 2,000 digital images by 128 contemporary artists. The site “merges a traditional academic digital image collection’s metadata capabilities with Flickr’s openness and flexibility.”
Glocal is an “immense, collaborative and multifaceted digital art project that examines the making, sharing and exhibiting of images in the 21st century.” Glocal utilizes the technology developed by archival and networking sites such as Flickr as well as the proliferation of digital cameras to interrogate the role, uses and uniqueness of digital images in our world.
Similarity Map Engine generates ring-like structures that showcase compositional similarities between images. Using a family tree framework, Image Breeder highlights visual resemblances.
Glocal has also created open source software toolkits which transform digital images, emulating experimental techniques from the early stages of photography. Motion Sequence recreates the attempts by Eadward Muybridge to break apart movement and represent change over time on a grid. Multiple Exposure harkens back to the early forays into animation by Etienne-Jules Marey.
With the motto “respect the rights of content creators,” Compfight utilizes the Flickr API to find images with various Creative Commons licenses.
Luis Barragán on Cooliris
Cooliris is a full screen image browsing plug-in now available on Firefox. Creating a cinematic viewing experience, Cooliris assembles a large number of images in an easy to navigate format. Cooliris can be used to browse images and videos on Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, and more.
To read more visit the Arts Media Lab blog.
Creative Commons estimates that over 100 million CC licensed photos are now available on Flickr. Creative Commons is a non-profit offering “free licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof.”
Click here for more information about Creative Commons images available on Flickr, or visit the DigitalKoans blog.
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