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Glorious collection of retrofuturism.
Like this app a lot. Best way to describe it is “Visual Twitter”. Crazy simple to quickly snap and share a photo, and get a stream of what your friends are up to. (Also: fellow Dogpatch Labs residents, and Mike is on the Awesome Foundation SF board.)
Behind the scenes photos from the set dresser on the first Muppet movie.
What San Francisco would look like without hills. Obvious in retrospect, but brilliantly done.
Lovely Google Chrome extension which replaces the “six screenshots” page on new tabs with a great snapshot from Flickr.
Loving “Fluidr” as an interface for browing Flickr. Here, check out my Flickr favourites as an example.
Love love LOVE Flickr’s new gallery feature. Curate a collection, selecting from the whole of Flickr’s massive photoset. Here’s my first example, a sampling of the best basset hound shots.
There is nothing I do not love about this photo — not least the look on Youk’s face!
Why I’m glad I’m not in Boston. (Though the arc of Dunkin Donuts coffee is making me somewhat “homesick”)
Some really outstanding photos of Barack Obama and the hubbub surrounding him in the lead-up to him winning the party nomination.
A handful of photos from Joy’s and my trip in a hot-air balloon, high above “wine country”.
I’m bored of “beauty in nature” — Hurrah for The Big Picture covering beauty in science! Enjoy these photos before they turn the collider on, and we all get sucked into black hole.
Quality! A 3D-sculpture of Twitter’s almost-ever present beacon of FAIL!
Blog by Alan Taylor gathering together the best photos from the newswires, displayed at a decently-high resolution.
Get an occasional email containing photos you uploaded to your Flickr account a year earlier. Micronostalgia. Lovely!
US Library of Congress + Flickr == FTW! LoC uploads photos from their collection to Flickr, sharing them with the world, then Flickr users can update the metadata, improving their usefulness. Everyone’s a winner.
I’ve been looking for a cost-effective way of converting our wedding photo negatives into digital files for a while, and this looks like it might be the way to go. $0.19 per negative.
Firefox plugin which collaboratively identifies faces in photos all over the web. There’s no smart matching yet, but that’s promised for the future. Creepy, inevitable, and awesome.
Life (deliberately) imitating “art”.
To promote the Simpsons movie, a bunch of 7-Elevens have been turned into Kwik-E-Marts — Squishees, Buzz Cola and all. (And Jasper in the freezer)
OS X screensaver which grabs your friends’ photos from Facebook. Playing with this, I was reminded that a) I have some incredibly hot friends and b) I have some incredibly strange friends.
Grocer’s apostrophe spotting’s.
Day-long photo project on May 5th to create a book and “sponsored event”.
Wicked cool use of Flickr’s geotagging — Overlay maps with the tags most commonly used on photos taken at those locations.
With little regard for public safety, I snapped a bunch of shots with my cellphone on my way home from work, which are lovingly (and automagically) placed along my route via the brilliance of Zonetag and Flickr.
Really frickin’ good Photomosaic-making software. I’ve been having lots of fun with this, using around 15,000 album covers as the “tiles”, and it does an bang-up job, without “cheating” by tinting or repeating images (like some other software does).
Moo have launched their Flickr Minicards: Get high-quality personal mini business cards printed with your photos on the back. Flickr Pro account holders can get 10 for free. The website is pretty nifty too.
Threadless model applied to photography — Submit and/or vote for photos, then see the winners published in deadtree.
My photos from our Scotland trip, overlaid onto a map of Scotland. Hooray for Flickry goodness.
Best feature of the Flickr “Gamma”? Proper fulltext search functionality, including Creative Commons searching. Huzzah!
Flickr screensaver for Windows. Rather nicely, it displays different photos on each monitor if you’ve got multiple screens.
Cheaproyalty-free stock photos. Better than searching Flickr for CC’d images which allow commercial use!
This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
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