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The Portrait of Barbie by Raquel Diniz

I met Raquel Diniz through a hypernarrative project I did two years ago called slowshutter. The idea was to present a great picture every day and to present it nice.

The project did not continue fluidly (I probably should have been a more active photographer), but through the website I met some nice people and great photographers. One of the photographers on the website is Raquel Diniz. Recently she did a MA image and communication and is having a graduation exposition in London. Below parts from her graduation work.

The portrait of Barbie

‘Barbie is a character who has been photographed in scenarios of personal significance to the photographer. The locations to which she travels vary from interesting places in London to tourist scenarios abroad. Once she is in the place the photographer registers the doll representing different meanings.’

Things I would like to see forever

‘Things I would like to see forever’ is a project where I am registering the routine of three girls living in London. … The base for the project is the use of still photographs transformed into movie images.

GOLDSMITHS MA IMAGE & COMMUNICATIONS DEGREE SHOW
10-13 July 2008
11am-6pm daily
Private view 10th from 6 to 8:30pm

Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, Bargehouse Street, South Bank, London SE1 9PH
Admission FREE
Nearest train/tube: Blackfriars, Southwark, Waterloo
Information: www.icshow.co.uk

Frozen (on Flickr)

Last week I went snowboarding in the popular Val Thorens, France (2300/3300m) and took my camera.

This rock holds a glacier (on Flickr)

The Street
During the week I photographed the street several times from our apartment on the 6th floor. I don’t know why, I just liked the top shot and how it changes every day.

The set on Flickr

And I took one of the valley (on Flickr)

And the clouds (on Flickr)

This is me and my EOS (on Flickr)

And this is the map (on Flickr)

The last day I made and off piste jump and broke my board :(

A great Flickr mash-up by Erik Borra
While I was playing with snow Erik Borra was inspired by my second Flickr experiment and made a great piece of code mashing up Flickr and Google News into a wonderful combination.

Anne Helmond was inspired by both projects and asks MTV to be MADE into a killer PHP programmer.

Today I experimented with the Flicrk API. An API is an external programmable interface that connects to a database, it allows external developers to access the content in the database. In this case I can access the photos on Flickr by using a free license (API-key).

2.269.526.982 photos
Everyday millions of photos are uploaded to Flickr. While writing this post 4.871 pictures are uploaded every minute and the total of photos uploaded to Flickr is 2.269.526.982. Most of these photos are tagged with meta information, like a title, description, user generated tags and device generated (shutter speed, type of camera, coordinates). That’s a lot of information.

Slideshow experiment
For this first experiment I use thirteen slides to tell something general about myself. Every slide loads the most recent images from the Flickr database based on a tag that corresponds to the slide.

The slideshow plays by itself and has no interaction, it’s linear, but not static. Every time you play the slideshow the content can be different, the story won’t.

www.wilbertbaan.nl/flickrapi/

How would you combine live data feeds with storytelling?

In Polling Places the New York Times asks readers to send photos from places where they vote. It makes exciting photo journalism. Not just the individual photos, but the collection is very interesting.

Digital cameras are almost omnipresent. If you - as the provider - make the goals of a project simple, clear and easy everybody can join and help you to create very exciting collection. Resulting in a set of pictures that can only be made if you are able to ask the collective of readers and contributers the right question.

Citizen Journalism starts by asking the right question at the right time and is not always about being at the right place at the right time.

Photo: The polling place in Mongtomery Township, NJ. submitted by M. Prendergast.

Back from a great holiday where in one coral reef at a depth of twelve meters I did see Sammy the Salmon’s beatbox swimming deflated. A huge (at least 40cm) porcupine blowfish.

BTW. I think Sammy the Salmon is actually a snapper ;)

 
Flick Radio is a Dutch (English subtitled) Radio drama about storytelling and about Flickr. Flick Radio is about a lot of things, but mostly it’s about Flickr. How we perceive identities on Flickr or in virtual worlds in general, we think to know people by the photos or items they post. And we fill in what we don’t know.

It’s a very interesting experiment and visual documentary made with ‘found footage’. It deserves your attention if you like documentaries, storytelling or photography.

Watch it in full screen DivX or in lower quality on YouTube.