2012-01-16
post/15950255717
photo 16:23:53
guardianFront by magCulture on Flickr.
I’m hardly the first person to remark on the Guardian’s front cover reworking, or the amusing juxtaposition (someone give those editors a bonus), but I thought I’d like to record it anyway.
2012-01-04
post/15309479657
quote 21:45:27
“ We did a lot of stuff wrong during my time at Flickr but if I had to highlight one thing we fucked up it was somehow creating an environment where people started to believe that their photos were not good enough for Flickr. I mean, really, how did we ever let that happen? I was speechless the first time a friend said that me and for the record: It was never part of the plan. How did we ever let people think that there is one measure of photography? How did we let people imagine that a medium which gave the world both Ansel Adams and Garry Winogrand (a photographer who died with a reported 10, 000 rolls of undeveloped film in his studio and who said that every time you take a picture you are hopefully risking failure) and everyone else in between was about any other than the joy and the discovery of the possible, foofy equipment and technique and measures of “good”-iness be damned? ”
Aaron Straup Cope, in Anti-aliasing. Posted as a response to the quote Dan W pulled from Dan Catt’s post about his first Instagram Christmas: “Why I never got into flickr: it’s for ‘proper’ photographers only and my friends weren’t on there.”
2011-12-09
post/13977022799
quote 19:32:43
“ While I love (and happily paid for) Pinboard, I also like the Delicious model where sharing bookmarks is something social. I think the transition of many users from Flickr to Instagram is costing us a lot in terms of a shared and relatively open context for connecting around photos. ”
Anil Dash, Getting the News at News.me.
2011-09-16
post/10255013464
photo 00:01:50
Color Chart (1920) by Eric Fischer on Flickr.
From “Color,” The World Book, 1920.
2011-08-26
post/9418641760
photo 17:57:00
hmv 363 Oxford Street, London - Exterior of store 1960s by hmv_getcloser on Flickr.
This has been doing the rounds, but it’s still worth sharing: HMV’s flagship West End store on Oxford Street in the 1960s.
Annoyingly, because the Flickr account is no longer pro (what, HMV can’t afford $25 a year now?), you can’t page through to more, but they’re collected at Voices of East Anglia, which also has a nice banner image.
