So thanks to a hat tip from my buddy Andy Mitchell, I just bought Bob Mould’s new album off iTunes. Wow. The new disc harkens back before Modulate – all at once, I’m hearing the influence of Workbook, Sugar and Copper Blue, all rolled into one nice package. It’s got an edge, but perspective at the same time. Good stuff. I shot the photo above for Bob several years back on the Modulate tour, and hope to see him again when he comes through Atlanta.
Flickr has just released some new features organized around their the nature/relationships implied by user activity around the images on their site, an interesting expansion/improvement on their tagging structure.
Interestingness creates a daily page with the most ‘Interesting’ pics uploaded as defined by how favored the image is, how many comments exist for it, and how widely distributed the user interest happens to be. Very slick. The other new feature, Clustering, groups tags by concept. So the “cute cluster” gets broken in to “cute kittens,” “cute puppies,” “cute babies” and “cute smiles.” Bush gets broken into ‘protest president politics’, ‘green-flower-nature’, ‘grafitti-sticker-stencil’, etc. The flickr blog discusses the new features. Very slick stuff.
Thomas Hawk is posting lots of good stuff today. If you use Flickr, this site has all the tools you might ever need to enhance your use of that great service. Link: Quick Online Tips: The Great Flickr Tools Collection
Thomas Hawk makes note of this blog dedicated to night photography on Flickr. Check out the Nighthawks – Night Photography blog. Below is an a photo I shot at a country fair in Hinesville, GA in the early 90s. I loved the way a longish exposure at post-sunset dusk could bring out these wonderful purple-to-pink colors in the sky.
