Flickr binge

[prog]

Actually spent all day yesterday goofing around on Flickr. I have over 200 photos up there now, including many of the ones that I used to host on the jmac.org gallery (a spit-and-glue system that fell over for the last time several years ago). Reminded myself of my enthusiasm for Orkut, at first. Flickr is a somewhat more healthy obsession, though; a lot less wanky. It's also a lot more work! I think I'm a little burned out on it already...

The tagging system is pretty neat, useful both for making one's own photographs searchable (something I've already found utility in) and for the pleasure of seeing what photos other people have assigned the same tag. For example, I have a couple of shots regarding the local subway system that I've tagged 'T', and when I asked Flickr to show me some other pictures tagged 'T', I was delighted with the results... lots of pictures of the letter T, from all over the place. And peoples' T-shirts.

It is interesting to me how photography seems to be yet another thing I basically stopped doing around the winter of 2001. It's like I squeezed out those two books, and my creativity for small, simple things has never quite recovered since.