Quick experiment in using simpleviewer and flickrviewer to display a Flickr set, in this case photos from a trip up to James Turrell's Skyspace in Kielder a couple of weeks ago.
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First snow of the winter.
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Went to see this spectacular public art performance behind Birmingham's disused Curzon Street Station on Saturday night. The free show was superb, up there with Tate Liverpool's Chinese exhibition fireworks as the best show of the year so far. We arrived to find a row of twenty or so burning furnaces, each one heating a barrel of water, providing steam.
We were kept behind barriers thirty foot back. Behind the furnaces runs one of the main train lines out of Birmingham New Street, Virgin's high-speed Pendolinos and an assortment of crappier trains running past regularly.
Black and white projections of steam trains lit up the full wall of the listed Curzon Street Station building, showers of fireworks occasionally raining down from it. A massive hot pipe organ shook the ground with its impersonation of a steam train gathering momentum. Completely overwhelming. Whistles rang out from the barrels over the furnaces. The pipe organ fired horizontal fireworks at the station building; the station building fired them back. Hundreds of helium balloons carrying hundreds of lights were released into the sky creating an man-made starlit sky. A huge blast of flames brought the show to the end.
Fantastic public art, combining spectacle with a real history - the station, the Lunar Society and Birmingham's pivotal role in the industrial revolution.
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I posted this photo on Flickr at 11.37 this morning. 2 hours later I was wondering what used to be on the site and I remembered reading a blog last year that covered wastelands all over Liverpool (great blog if you can find it). So, I searched for 'wasteland lodge lane' and the first result on Google was my Flickr photo! I've noticed Google indexing blogs quickly recently but I've never noticed this for Flickr before.
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I've been taking a series of photographs in Toxteth recently. I'm really enjoying it and I hope to continue for the next few weeks. This great photo was posted on Flickr today, a house in one of the 'welsh streets', Madryn Street, destined for demolition under the government's notorious new heartlands scheme.
The photo's fantastic, beautifully lit and composed, whilst also documenting a wonderful act of hopeless defiance.
An exhibition celebrating real ale culture. You could pull your own pint, eat cheese and pickle, pork pies and look at some photographs of a brewery. I don't like real ale so the exhibition was a bit lost on me but I thought the building, Made, was a great exhibition space.
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I worked on the first Hub Festival a few years ago and I haven't been to it since. It didn't seem too sure what it was trying to be, but judging from Andy Sunley's great set of photos from this year's festival this weekend, they seem to have developed a pretty well defined audience.
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I got excited about this campaign, presuming they were lowering the datacosts of their 3g cards for laptops. But they're not, it's just crappy internet on your mobile phone.
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Following on from the covering up of the Norton for Scrap sign, this photo shows the latest success story for the Grot Spots campaign. The former Las Vegas Amusements arcade outside Lime Street has had its Las Vegas sign removed and now looks much more cultured. £1 for a bottle of larger.
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I'm not sure that this really shows how good a development this is, but the first results now for an image search on 'Catharine Street Liverpool' are photos from inside my flat.
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I noticed that this much-loved sign had been covered over a few months ago. According to today's Liverpool Echo the sign was removed and new adverts put in its place as part of the cleanup for 2008.
The 'Look Of The City' project targeted 10 sites to make the city more 'presentable'. Also included in the project is the removal of the Las Vegas sign from the property by Lime Street.
Update (6 July 2007): Las Vegas improvement - the £1 larger bar
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Pilgrim Street, Liverpool
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You really have given up any attempt at pretending to care about your brand when you do this to the main entrance of your bar.
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I used Dopiaza's tools to create this automatically updated set of my least interesting' photos on Flickr. Not sure what it says about my own judgement, but the set includes a lot of my favourite photos...
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If you're going to create a walk of fame you need a plan for how to maintain it.
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Name in Lights is an installation by artist Joshua Sofaer for the Fierce Festival in Birmingham. The public were invited to nominate someone to have their name prominently displayed in Chamberlain Square, mimicking the Hollywood sign.
CJ White nominated her mother, Una White:
'My beautiful mother displayed strength and determination depicted in her journey through the 1960’s from Jamaica to England. She represented, cultivated and encapsulated the spirit of life in her heart and this conveyed to other people of all ages and races. She was very altruistic in her nature and for over 30 years worked as a devoted nurse caring for the sick and the severely mentally disabled.
It would therefore be very apt that 10 years after her death that her name should have the opportunity to light the skylines of Birmingham and would be the epitome of hope, faith, overcoming adversity, effervescent and cultural unity.
My mother was a role model to her daughters and her grandchildren too. Her sprit and faith lives on within us and the memories of her beautiful smile continue to shine everlasting in our personal journeys and her lasting footprint continues to guide us.'
- Photo of the name lit at night.
- Judge Mark Borkowski on Jodie Marsh vs. Una White.
- Video of switch-on.
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Not sure if this is just Liverpool or the UK/Europe as a whole but Yahoo maps has added much greater photography detail for Liverpool. Yahoo maps is used by Flickr for geolocation and the previous lack of detail has been frustrating. There is now photography to the greatest zoom level, where previously it stopped at level 4/5.
It's also interesting that, in view of Liverpool Vision's misguided whingeing about Google Earth images being out of date, the new Yahoo photography looks very recent. The image above shows the Liverpool One development, including the recently completed car park. Just out of picture above is the sunken ferry landing stage...
The map view has also been improved, although it still shows a non-existent park off Liverpool's Hope Street.
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Visiting Victoria Baths in Manchester on Friday as part of Futuresonic 2007 we saw Ray Lee installing his sound installation Siren. An empty swimming pool was filled with a group of tripods with rotating arms, both ends of each arm transmitting a droning noise. Returning on Saturday for the performance, Victoria Baths was pretty busy with people sitting round the edge of pool and inside it.
It was a great performance. Ray Lee and his assistant wearing identical suits and turning each tripod in motion separately. I was expecting something a lot louder but the noise was really melodic.
More photos of the Siren installation at Flickr.
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Fantastic, I've been waiting for this ever since I heard about Twittervision. The same developer, Dave Troy, has done the same thing with Flickrvision. Photos uploaded to Flickr with geodata are displayed live on a googlemap generated map of the world. I could watch this stuff for hours.
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The current exhibition at FACT is 'Silicon Remembers Carbon' from David Rokeby.
Gallery one, 'Seen' - four video screens showing the same shot of the Piazza San Marco in Venice in four different ways. The moving elements of the main shot are removed and layered into the three other screens - excellent.
Gallery one, 'n-Cha(n)t - a dark room with hanging video screens showing ears. Speak into the microphones and the ears appear to hear you and respond with some nonsense - couldn't work it out.
Gallery two, 'Giver of Names' - stick random objects (the usual colourful toys, etc) in front of a camera which then applies words to them - dull
Gallery two, 'Taken' - split screen showing footage of gallery visitors, sometimes the camera picks one person out and applies random word to them. Actions are looped out of synch on the other screen - fun.
Media lounge, 'Very nervous system' - one of those installations where you move around and set off sounds.
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I've never noticed nowpublic.com before. It's a crowd-sourced news website, drawing together photos, videos and citizen journalism.
I received an email from them asking permission to use a photo of Margaret Thatcher from the new folder Flickr stream. Giving them permission was an easy automated setup and the photo now accompanies this story on Tony Blair.
The integration with Flickr works really well. My only concerns would be that, although credit and privacy permissions are migrated across from Flickr, there is no link back to the original photo and nowpublic users seem to have the ability to download a full-size original (something that is blocked on the new folder flickr account).
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Playing with k850i's macro setting on afternoon at the Rainswick Rococo Garden
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Long exposure shot by The Wirral Bells from behind Wallasey Town Hall.
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I was looking round here the other day wondering which building used to be the bus station. Philip's set of photos reminded this morning that the building's gone now.
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Last photo taken with mobile phone in 2006.
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Phil Sherry's xmas dinner - Butternut squash & leek loaf, mashed carrot & turnip, roasted potatoes, roasted parsnip, yorkshire pudding, boiled sprouts, roasted sprouts, red wine & onion gravy. See Phil's food and drink flickr set.
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Great photo of this morning's sunrise from Richard Carter on Flickr. Gustav Adolfus Kyrka in foreground, St James (I think) to its right and St Vincent de Paul on the left.
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Test post to blogger beta service from Flickr.
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Ryanstock at the Symphony
2pm - 2am
This sunday, 15 October 2006
Edgar Jones
The Rain Dogs
Mojave Collective
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Test post from Flickr account, sunset, Catharine Street
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A google map showing location of images taken with mobile phone since 28 December 2005. Title of each marker links to enlarged image on Flickr.
new folder moblog googlemapped
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