Toronto Reference Library. nice photo grant.

Interior Design Show 2008 - a set on Flickr. Pete took some cool photos of some cool stuff.

Classics in Lego - a photoset on Flickr. famous scenes in black & white with lego. via ram.

Flickr photoset of an abandoned amusement park in Ohio. those are some cool photos.

FlickrBooth. Apple photobooth plugin to auto-upload images to flickr

Ray and Charles Eames will be honored this summer with a series of 16 US Postal stamps. it’s a photo of the stamps.

Edit your photos On Flickr! « Flickr Blog. uses picnik. nicely integrated.

Flickr Places: Seattle. a new feature of the sight.

atomic bomb
“This shot was taken in 1968 by the French army in the Fangataufa atoll. Codenamed Canopus, it yielded 2600 kt”. four photos in the flickr set. via ram.

Most Interesting photos on Flickr near the fires in California. via josh.

Slashdot | Texas Family ‘Sues Creative Commons’. welcome to the 21st century you idiots.

photo crowdsourcing

In the last couple years I’ve been to my fair share of weddings (7 i believe) and a corollary of this is being party to far too many conversations about wedding planning. How it’s complicated, how you have to book this and then decide that. I actually don’t mind hearing about wedding planning but I have no pity for making it stressful for no reason. In my limited exposure to wedding planning you really have 9 tasks, all of which can be pretty much finished in a few weekends of work. They are: dress, suit, guest list, invites, officiant, venue, hotel, food, flowers, and photographer. Everything after that is really just a detail which can usually be deferred to anyone’s better judgment.

But thanks to Tobias Lütke, this list can now be reduced to just 8 items. Tobias (who I met at Railsconf) and his wife actively crowdsourced their wedding photos with a contest. Since it seems that every second person now owns a digital SLR and flickr pro accounts, it’s no surprise that you can get professional looking photos from the guests you’d invite anyways. My friends Matt and Kathleen did this exact thing at their wedding this year. They got our friend Ram to take lots of photos (including the more traditional wedding photos), had disposable cameras for more piles of random shots, and then setup a “mathleen” flickr photo pool to collect and share all the photos. Tobias and Fiona took it a step further by adding cash prizes and a system for tagging the photos (though i’ll bet this has more to do with the that half that there were a ton of nerds there).

Credits to scottica for the first photo and Ram for the second. On a complete side note, I downloaded, cropped, scaled, and uploaded the photos in this post with an online photo editor called picnik. It’s so damn handy for quick photo editing.

Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll — New York Magazine. this is probably the most interesting magazine article i’ve read in the last year. via 3rdparty.

Middleman - a photoset on Flickr. the things you can do with a finger. funny. via josh.

life2.0

I just discovered that a friend of mine is having a baby because he posted a sonograph photo of the baby on flickr which I just saw through an rss feed in google reader. i am now living life2.0.

seattle weatherpocalypse - Flickr. it was really windy here in seattle.

Piczo Gets $4M - Mashable*. myspace/flickr-like site snags $4 million bucks in VC. Since 50% of it’s user are girls under 18 it’s (A) so ugly that geocities won’t even link to it and (B) heaven for pedophiles.

Radar.net is the Anti-Flickr - Mashable*. interesting implementation of private photo sharing amongst a group. stuff like this is bound to have growing demand as more and more people realize that photos on myspace of you drunk, naked, and passed out can also be viewed by the recruiters.

flickr: eyes of the world. it’s hard to be sentimental about a company but, really, flickr does a great thing. Every single day you can find new photos that show the human experience in amazing detail.

Caterina.net: It’s a bad time to start a company. a rant about startup hype by the flickr’s co-founder. via funkaoshi.