I am learning new web technologies as part of a program with my library system. One of the assigments is to play and explore with the Flickr website. This is a webhosting service with a photo sharing segment connecting communities online grouped around common interests. Lots of photos, lots of tags, lots of stuff. Tags are keywords used to label a photo, so other people can quickly search through the vast volume of photos.
Part of this assigment with Flickr is to explore the site and blog about something I found interesting. Well...I decided to blog about Tim Gunn and Project Runaway. This is a show on BravoTV, going on this fourth (4th) year -- hopefully, but no news yet. Tim Gunn, formerly of the Parsons School of Design in New York City, has been hired by Liz Claibourne Industries to be its Chief Creative Officer....Project Runaway will not be the same without the sauve, urbane, articulate, modest, and insightful Tim Gunn. I hope BravoTV does everything it can to keep him connected to the show.
Tim Gunn's catch phrase is "Make it work."
This photo is from sgt fun's collection at http://www.flickr.com/photos/sgtfun/tags/timgunn/
The second portion of the assignment is to play with mashups; and I like the Spell with Flickr and Montager. Mashups are services that use one feature or webapp with another. Spell with Flickr is fun - spell out words using pictures of letters, and Montager creates a mosaic out of pictures it finds on the web. Here is the montage I made using "Tim Gunn" - it can be slow to create the mosiac, but its great to have one place where you can look at all the pictures in one location.
http://www.deviousgelatin.com/montager/image.php?image=406200814
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