Originally uploaded by studio_1p4

Semapedia QR Codes

Originally uploaded by derivadow

If you should be curious about the sticker on that yellow thing please check this site. The sticker connects the virtual and the physical world by bringing information from the internet to the relevant place in physical space.

Universal Language

Originally uploaded by fumitake1969

Photography is said to be the universal language. Have a look yourself.

Evidence

Originally uploaded by MikeMandel

Nonja

Originally uploaded by SAMSUNG Austria | Switzerland | Slovenia

Nonja takes photographs. So do billions of people. Nonja’s photos are on Facebook. So are billions of other photos. Nonja is an orang-utan. Ok. But who ever said that outstanding intelligence is required for taking photographs?

New Economy

Originally uploaded by Christine and Justin

Christine and Justin make paintings of the things they want. The paintings are sold through their website. The price of a painting equals the price of the thing they want. Once a painting is sold the artists buy the respective thing. The photographs of the things they bought are on Flickr.

“No clue why I took this”

Originally uploaded by Jessica-Anne Stoner

There are 67 “items” described or entitled with the sentence “no clue why I took this” on Flickr.
There are 828 “items” described or entitled with the sentence “no idea why I took this.”
There are 1,003 “items” described or entitled with the sentence “i don’t know why I took this.”
There are 217 “items” described or entitled with the sentence “i don’t remember why I took this.”
And many Flickr members simply don’t care about titles and descriptions.

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Originally uploaded by hansenmarjan

Flickr is a great place for discovering all the photos you were never looking for.

Lego Emulation

Originally uploaded by Balakov

Mike Stimpson alias Balakov became a bit of a star on Flickr with his Lego emulations of well-known photographs. There was a bit of an uproar when Lego celebrated the company’s 50th anniversary with an advertising campaign based on the very same idea. A commercial rip-off! Nobody noticed that Mr Stimpson himself was not exactly the person who came up with the idea. Marcos Vilariño’s little book Historia dunha Fotografía de Xoguete was published by CEF Vigo back in 2001.
The appropriate comments regarding all three sets of pictures were written much earlier by Susan Sontag.

History/Memoy

Originally uploaded by 1chord & a fib

Photographs are supposed to remind us of past events. This is supposed to work even if we don’t have any first-hand experience of the respective events ourselves. Looking at the photograph we remember an event that happened before we were born. Do detailled photographs work more efficiently? How much information do we need to recognize something, how many pixels to trigger the process of remembering?