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flickr tag poetry

reminds me of the phenomonon of flickr tag poetry, in which photos uploaded to Flickr get tagged purposefully (and often playfully) in such a way to aesthetically compliment the imagery with text. sometimes it's the poetry that gets foregrounded

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Elyse Eidman-Aadahl's picture

Favorite examples?

Hi John,

I love the idea of Flickr tag poetry—do you have any favorite examples that show the range of this kind of piece?

John Bishop's picture

Hi Elyse, There's a pool for

Hi Elyse,

There's a pool for flickr poetry--those who write poetry to accompany their own images
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brightasafig/24266182/in/pool-75423096@N00/

Then an example of a response in poetry from a viewer
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinhoth/4390755682/

Then an example from a small pool of tag poets
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chelseagirlphotos/1337685995/in/pool-460071@N24/

Thx for asking for specifics, I started to comb through my own comments and images in Flickr, having had a lot of fun commenting on and writing tag poetry. Fun to look through my Flickr history, but difficult to find good examples of what I called a "phenomenon."

John
http://www.flickr.com/photos/boudhini/

 

Paul Oh's picture

re: flickr tag poetry

Love this concept, too, John. We should talk - perhaps you could work up a Digital Is resource on the phenomenon.

John Bishop's picture

"phenomenon"

Howdy Paul Oh,

Would love to talk more, and dig further on flickr taggery, but as you can see from the above I might have "overphenomed" personal experience. 

John