I love Flickr. I’ve had a pro account for years. Maybe you should too.
Not because my photos are in anyway professional, but because of the wonderful things Flickr does. Flickr allows me to store and organise my photos. I can look at pictures by friends, acquaintances and all sorts of groups.
Most importantly Flickr curates and organises creative commons licensed and public domain photos. These are searchable and Flickr give access to them via an API that is useful and usable by non-professionals. I’ve had an amazing amount of fun and use (professionally as a teacher). To me Flickr is an important part of the web, I have a pro account to support that.
If you use Flickr and don’t have a pro account you can get 25% off with the code 25in2019 or use this link.
Marilyn and Me by Ji-min Lee
Read: Marilyn and Me by Ji-min Lee ★★★★☆
Not sure if I’ve ever read a book by a Korean before! Enjoyed, and was educated by this one. Marilyn is more in the title than the tale.
neocities.org might work for some folk as a thimble replacement.
Just had a lovely last day of term.
Last day of the year fun in the Biggies pic.twitter.com/OfWyW6fbfZ
— Banton Primary (@Banton_Pr) December 19, 2019
Over on micro.blog @sketchbookb explained the concept of Fav8, this is your own choice of the best of your intagram, as opposed to generated by others faving your photos. reminded me of some map photos I made ( example). I’ve made one & a generated best 9.
7am
Dark, clearing sky, bright waining moon, frost,
windscreen scraping, traffic and trains,
high above the sound of geese.
We’re almost forgotten that links are powerful, and that restraining links through artificial scarcity is an absurdly coercive behavior.
I’ve seen this linked (ironically) all over the place. Great metaphor and explanation. Pretty much all quotable.
killing off links is a strategy.
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it is a strategy, designed to keep people from the open web, the place where they can control how, and whether, someone makes money off of an audience. The web is where we can make sites that don’t abuse data in the ways that Facebook properties do.
Shadows on Our Skin
Read: Shadows on Our Skin by Jennifer Johnston ★★★★★ heartbreaking. 📚
Flickr 2019 pummelvision style
All the photos I’ve uploaded this year,
Music from https://filmmusic.io
“Inspired” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
script to download pile of flickr images and make a movie like the old pummelvision service


