{"id":100,"date":"2005-03-18T15:54:49","date_gmt":"2005-03-18T15:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2005-03-18T15:54:49","modified_gmt":"2005-03-18T15:54:49","slug":"50_people_see_a_networked_pict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/18\/50_people_see_a_networked_pict\/","title":{"rendered":"50 people see&#8230; a networked picture book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/brevity\/6586431\/in\/set-164195\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos3.flickr.com\/6586431_962500d1c1_m.jpg\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/spacer.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"10\" height=\"220\" align=\"left\" \/> This image was created by blending 50 photos in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\">Flickr<\/a> all tagged with &#8220;the gates&#8221; (the program was devised by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/brevity\/\">brevity<\/a>). You can see the complete set of images <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/brevity\/sets\/164195\/show\/\">here<\/a>.  Try guessing the tag for each image &#8211; I found that, even though they are quite abstract, there are ghostly traces of shape and line that quietly announce themselves. It sort of whispers to you.<br \/>\nThere is often a kind of ethereal beauty in network maps. They resemble something living, fibrous, arterial. Brevity&#8217;s program achieves something rather different. It takes pictures &#8211; fragments of experience &#8211; and mixes them like a painter mixes pigments. The resulting colors and textures are reminiscent of deep, subconscious urges, like the color field paintings of Rothko, or Ad Reinhardt (thanks <a href=\"\/itinplace\">Alex<\/a>). It portrays a kind of experiential network.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis was posted yesterday on the <a href=\"\/gatesmemoryblog\">Gates Memory Blog<\/a>, the discussion forum for our project (in collaboration with Flickr), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatesmemory.org\">&#8220;The Gates: An Experiment in Collective Memory.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image was created by blending 50 photos in Flickr all tagged with &#8220;the gates&#8221; (the program was devised by brevity). You can see the complete set of images here. Try guessing the tag for each image &#8211; I found that, even though they are quite abstract, there are ghostly traces of shape and line [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1726],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}