I’ve never been that fond of Flickr. I mean, I know that it was great when it was launched and it is still a super easy way to store photos. It’s just that I’ve always heard that it is a great place to discover little gems of amateur photography. This I have found to be utter nonsense time and time again. Plus it looks really shit. While youtube has its Vimeo, Flickr has its……..I don’t know, I haven’t found Flickr’s Vimeo yet. So that means i’m stuck with it. And this seems less of a problem now that I have finally discovered some amazing streams that have rekindled my desire to wade through all the shit to find the pearls (N.B that is an apalling mixed metaphor).
The first is the this one of pictures of Old Hong Kong placed against the same scene taken in modern HK. A nice idea done well. Some of them are absolutely astounding.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/old-hk/
The best one however is this one. I really love this and have looked through all the photos in it more than once. It is a stream by some geezer who has gone around and asked hipsters if he could photograph them beside the contents of their bags. I’ve always been interested by whats in people’s bags. Does the contents of your bag say anything about you as a person? It is after all, all the things you think you might need. And it is private.. Or does it just show what kind of person we want to be? You might never use any of that shit after all. That’s whats so interesting. If you want me to judge you then please, by all means send me a photo of you and your stuff. Don’t mock it up please.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasontravis/sets/72157603258446753/
Note to all: I write this while waiting in what can only be described as the most awful airport chair in the entire world. Spelling and Formating may be a little screwed up for this reason. Why are airports so awful and uncomfortable when all that people is wait around? This is a question that needs to be answered but it’s not going to be here and it’s not going to be by me.