Week 6: Photo Sharing

There are many places to host images on line. I have used Photobucket and Flickr. I started using flickr about a year ago when Photobucket started having issues with passwords. I moved most of my images over to flickr just because it is a better way to share images.

I just took a few images from my photostream to share Image 1 & Image 2 .

This is a Diorama I made about 8 years ago. it was made using HO scale figures and trees, and a large scale Airfix human skeleton embedded in a layer of plaster. The idea was to make this like a park setting similar to ones where people go to view dinosaur fossils. The park ranger figure was hard to find at the time. Over the years I have found that finding figures in a decent action pose in the traditional railroad scales are hard to come by.

Mappr
On the site there is a note saying: "Note: As of 2007, Mappr is no longer processing images from flickr. Take a look at flickr to find images on maps."
Flickr now has its own feature like Mappr: http://www.flickr.com/map

3 comments:

Lisa K said...

Your cool diorama makes me want to ask, Do you read George Saunders?

patchwork said...

No I never read anything by him. At the time I was thinking about some of the old artwork from Omni and the Twilight zone magazines how sometimes they would play with normal everyday subject matter to make it seem just slightly off.

The diorama predates this photoshop hoax
http://www.onelight.com/hollow/giant/Newgiants/newgiants.htm But the idea is sort of the same.

These websites have some stuff I think managed it better than I did.

http://www.thomasdoyle.net/

http://www.crashbonsai.com/

Lisa K said...

I liked the Thomas Doyle stuff.

Making the slightly off seem everyday is what Saunders's stories are like. The one I remember best had people living in a caveman diorama (like it was their job) at an amusement park/museum.

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