Archive for Photos
I’ve now labeled all 39,801 photos and videos in my collection. Whew. …I don‘t know if I ever really explained what I mean by “labeled” in this project. I mean that each item now has a descriptive title (although often the titles are just things like “View”), and each item has one or more categorization […]
Last night, I was on my way to bed at a somewhat-reasonable-for-me hour when I noticed that the Google Photos app had generated a “best of 2017” album and was offering to turn it into a printed photo book for me. Intrigued, I took a look and found that it had also generated several other […]
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I'll post at some point about yesterday's adventures. For now, suffice it to say that alpacas really don't look real....
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The Awl recently posted an Annotated White House Flickr Feed, mostly adding snarky comments to photos from said feed. I...