Keith Lord - Online Portfolio

I was browsing by Download Squad when I chanced upon up a link to flickrvision.

The site basically shows in real-time images being uploaded to people’s flickr accounts across the world by combining flickr and Google Maps. Despite the slightly stalker like qualities to it, I do non-the-less find it rather fascinating seeing what images are being uploaded elsewhere in the world. It’s like a quick 5 second glimpse at someone else’s life whether it’s pictures of themselves, protests or trips on the roller coaster.

The only thing about the site that I don’t like is the “light box” type viewing of the images, which is constently up on the screen, however some images come up and vanish so quickly that the image doesn’t have time to load outside the pinned bubble, which can get rather annoying when it obscures the images. I would have thought keeping the pinned bubbles and having a link on there to view the image it is showing would make more sense, but like most things web 2.0 the site is still in beta.

I watched an interesting program about 9/11 last night on Channel 4 called The Falling Man.

There is the potential for beauty in most things, even in death and suffering, a notion that a lot of people are not comfortable with (understandably). I can’t help the way I see the world, I can understand some aspects of it, people want to grieve, they remember their loved ones as they were not how they died. Yet I tend to find that the taboo over death can be somewhat silly at times. But then everyone handles it differently.
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