Somewhere between the Hell of HDR photos of sunsets (on beaches (with babies (playing with puppies))) and a barren post-modern world devoid of any critical interpretation lies the territory where most of us live our lives trying to eke out rare moments of beauty in the shifting shadows. Somewhere in there we make a meaning for ourselves that has its roots in how those images shape themselves to the big-little bags of history we all trail behind us while we’re otherwise busy trying to be noticed. That is where the magic — the good — happens.
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this is aaronland: meat grinder prisms Another thoughtful post from a Flickr insider (former Flickr engineer Aaron Straup) considering the reasons the once-dominant photo site has stumbled a bit in the wake of the post-iPhone photo sharing boom (see Flickr designer Timoni West’s excellent post about the Flickr Contacts page for more context). I think this quote from the post is one of the most humanistic takes on social software I’ve read, and I totally agree with Aaron that there’s something essential in the story we tell about ourselves over time that most social services are ignoring today. (via buzz) |
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