24 hours of Flickr is an event to promote the launch of a book that contains photos around the world, that were taken on May 5, 2007. Flickr is also celebrating the launch of the website in seven other languages: Chinese, German, Spanish, French, Korean, Italian and Portuguese. This tour took place in Berlin, Paris, London and finally Montreal. Check out a video of the speeches and links to photos.
Just like there seems to be a trend among young female celebrities to get in trouble and go to rehab, there also seems to be a trend among photographers finding out their work being commercially used without their consent and even without their knowledge.
It all started a few days ago when Rebekka announced that she discovered that her photos were sold without her knowledge. There are currently many posts and articles about this on the web. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are articles printed in newspapers and magazines about this whole thing.
Since Rebekka’s website launched, she has made a lot of updates in her photos and on the blog. There is no way to know when she adds photos which makes things fun, because instead of knowing immediately what is new, you have to figure …
The first post I made on this subject was about everything that occurred before I started working on Rebekka’s website. This one will be about how I ended up making the website the way it is.
“if i have a site done i …
Towards the end of August, I had the opportunity and tremendous honor to design the photo portfolio of one of the most popular and most acclaimed people on flickr: Rebbeka Guðleifsdóttir.
The first time I came accross her photos on flickr, over a …
I wanted to try this thing out. In 2004, when we went to Vietnam, my dad brought back these two swords. I finally decided to do something with them.
I couldn’t stand still, so it’s a …
This is something you really don’t see everyday. This is what you get at the time of this post, if you go on Flickr. I wonder how long it takes to move 20 terabytes and check if …
I saw this photo on my flickr badge and I clicked it because I was wondering why I took this shot.
The subject could be the kiosk, but it makes no sense. It could be …
Everybody has noticed that these days everything comes in beta. Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have all followed that trend.
flickr, owned by Yahoo for a while now, has decided to get out of beta …
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