Her Kind Smile Hides A Crueler Past
Me, John, and MaryBeth went to the Brooklyn Botanical Garden on Saturday, for their annual cherry blossom festival. Apparently the cherry blossoms there bloom like, for a week out of the whole year, so this year we caught it. It was John’s idea, and an awesome one. The Brooklyn Botanical Garden in general is gorgeous, and with the streams of cherry blossoms, and surprisingly unannoyingly high volume of people, it was breathtaking.
I put all of my photos, taken unambitiously by camera phone, on my Flickr page: here’s the set. I think they came out great. These are my favorites.
Also, in general I’m really getting into Flickr. The whole ecosystem it provides is glutted with fascinating metadata, whose power is revealed in aggregate. I could easily license my photos under Creative Commons, mark them on a map, and do simple things like rotate in place and add tags (so cliche now). I have wanted to start really taking advantage of Flickr for a while now, but never felt like sitting down and doing the manual mental labor of it all.
I lowered that barrier using the Desktop Flickr Organizer (for Linux only), which is just a sweetass app for getting your photos organized and up to Flickr. It’s got a couple of bugs, notably in creating a set and syncing to new sets, but at its most useful function, rapidly naming/tagging/describing/uploading files from my computer to Flickr, it is simply brilliant. If you use Linux I recommend you check it out, with the understanding you’ll still be doing the advanced photo management inside Flickr’s Organizr.
Make a point to visit the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens.
Eric, I love reading your blog when I have no clue what you’re talking about a quarter of the time. You are the smart one.
Marty
May 5, 8:18am
martyholman.com
The “Send to Flickr” plugin for Windows is a great option for Windows. It integrates in your shell so you just right-click and do “Send to Flickr…”. It works.
Also, Flickr is totally awesome.
Edgesmash
May 5, 9:52am
funnyonceaday.blogspot.com
Edgesmash: That’s awesome. What I like about DFO is that I can do the naming, tagging, describing, all offline, and then upload everything in a batch with the right metadata. Then once they’re online I can rotate in place, mark things on the map, etc. Also you should put your photos on Flickr.
Marty – Was it the metadata? Check out the site I linked to, it’s about how some academics can produce 3D photograph models of famous landmarks by searching Flickr, using the metadata (tags, names, etc.) that people put on their photos. On its own, tags on a photo don’t mean much. On the whole, they provide a huge community-created data warehouse that you can draw meaning from.
Eric
May 5, 10:22am
mill-industries.com
Way ahead of you partner: http://flickr.com/photos/edgesmash/ It’s funny you don’t know that, as we’re friends on Flickr. But I am terrible about uploading new ones (adding some now).
“Send to Flickr” isn’t that cool; when you’ve selected a batch of images, you can apply the tags and sets and then go, but you have to have the same tags/sets for each batch.
Edgesmash
May 5, 2:55pm
funnyonceaday.blogspot.com