Hi Kevin,
I love the random so love this idea.You mentions a couple of my toys/tools along side some others.
The Random Flickr blendr was originally thought of as a sort of contemplation toy, so I avoided making it easy to grab images. I guess I could make that easier now there seems to be a purpose. I think FlickrCC Stampr used to have a url parameter to kick off a search I’ll look at adding that back in at times.
Side note, I remember Ben Rimes Poetry for People blog. Now gone but discussed here: Come Write Poetry With Me This April! – The Tech Savvy Educator
Update, 1-April-19 : I’ve made a couple of changes that might be useful:
http://johnjohnston.info/fcc/?s=poem adding ?s=searchword will preload the flickr search
On Random Flickr Blendr I’ve added a pause button and move the links for better screenshotting. I changed the links to flickr shortlinks so they can be read from an image (Not very accessible!)
I think I did Ben’s site at one point … ringing bell in my brain … Thanks for all that you set up already .. helpful inspiration ..
Kevin
PS — a small poem as thank you note ….
Where the edges
of your imagined world
blend into mine,
I take the time to notice
the seamless transitions
of our apertures, each
camera click
another moment
captured
How lovely to be thanked in a poem. My pleasure.
I am checking this out now….
Yes, we have the Flickr Blendr as the contemplation space in the #stillweb and it is wonderful! Had not remembered that when you asked, Kevin. Such a cool idea, write a poem to a random image! Love it.
I’ve made a couple of small tweets that might help: a parameter to preload the search & a pause button to the random flickr blendr
johnjohnston.info/blog/re-random…
Thanks. I don’t see a pause button. Where am I looking on the screen?
Hiding behind the i 😉
hmm. don’t see it behind the i …
Refresh maybe?
Weird. Not showing in Chrome but showing just fine in Firefox.
Thanks, I can see it on chrome (73.0.3683.86 ) on mac, are you on Windows? I’ll not see a windows box for a couple of weeks as school holidays here:-)
Mac at school and home. School Mac — Chrome show the pause button. Home one doesn’t. Oh well. At least I know I can access it.
safari on Mac and can see pause button