Typophile - Reasons to use Flickr ? - Comments

Dennis - I found your site

fontplayer — Sun, 3 Feb 2008 08:38:31 -0800

Dennis - I found your site again today after loosing the url. I appreciate the images that you’ve graciously shared.

My pleasure. Good to see you here. There are lots of pro type designers here, so it is a more educational atmosphere than the old hangout.

A few tips, if you want to check for replies you can track your threads from your ID page:
http://typophile.com/user/26576

Then any threads you showed an interest in will migrate to the top when anyone posts to that page.

And all the most current comments can be tracked using this link:
http://typophile.com/tracker

Best wishes from So. Cal.

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

rs_donsata — Fri, 1 Feb 2008 23:16:24 -0800

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hectormunoz/

Héctor

Good luck with that,

russellm — Fri, 1 Feb 2008 06:36:14 -0800

Good luck with that, Vince.

Speaking of which... Poling Place Photo Project.

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I use it to save

vinceconnare — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:57:08 -0800

I use it to save America’s bad World image.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/93279914@N00/2217435546/

I’ve had several online

Amulet — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:24:05 -0800

I’ve had several online storage sites/portfolio sites over the years - and have abandonned them all for various reasons (limiting uploads, switching to pay-for-use, etc). Flikr might be just what I’ve been looking for.

Dennis - I found your site again today after loosing the url. I appreciate the images that you’ve graciously shared. Spent a few hours today working with XenoDream and figuring out the best way of adding photographic/textured backgrounds to images (with varying degrees of success ...)

“Cold hearted.” I

dberlow — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:42:07 -0800

“Cold hearted.”
I didn’t mean it that way, sorry.
“For me it’s not about stumbling around...”
...nor is it about posting, by your examples. ;)
“It sounds like you haven’t really given Flickr a chance.”
Or perhaps, the other way around? :)

Cheers!

I love flickr. There’s so

James Arboghast — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:19:39 -0800

I love flickr. There’s so much to look at, and I like that a lot of it is at a more pedestrian level than say travel magazines or science books. I really like to inhale content though, and I understand it’s not for everyone. My idea of a good time is surfing fffound for 2 hours then passing out in a design stuper.

“Stupor”. I appreciate what you’re saying Haley. We’re all individuals, and I thrive on some of the things you prefer Flickr to. Travel magazines bore me. Boosk on art and science fascinate me. That kind of material fires my imagination and I draw creative inspiration from it. Looking at tons of images clogs up my mind.

I don’t have much use for Flickr, and there isn’t room or time in my life for it. With so much media making up our lives, mine is already full to capacity. Social appointments to keep, friends to visit and entertain—-most people have them, and for me they come first. The internet comes last.

Flickr’s function as a social resource is fine—-except it has much more relevance for people dwelling on the North American continent than for an Australian. We have no Typecon down here. It seems most major players in the type industry are located in North America or Europe. I could use Flickr to stay in touch with people working in those places. Except I can’t pull airline tickets out of my rear end. The upshot isn’t practical for me.

As a way of staying in touch with people Flickr is all very well. I already do that by email tho, and it’s much more intimate that way. I crave intimacy whenever I can get it. The open air exposed public nature of the internet puts me off.

Flickr is wonderful and I don’t have a problem with it. Flickr duplicates aspects of living already covered by other resources and institutions which already serve me.

Boring.

j a m e s

Well, as she would say,

fontplayer — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:17:44 -0800

Well, as she would say, “Isn’t that special.”

Not God, just God’s Church

dezcom — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:19:30 -0800

Not God, just God’s Church Lady :-)

ChrisL

On the DVD “The Brooklyn

fontplayer — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:01:45 -0800

On the DVD “The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir I’m Amazed...Live” I just saw Comic Sans on a lesson header at their Learning Center. Even God is using Comic Sans.

And there are so many other

Linda Cunningham — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:57:21 -0800

And there are so many other contributions to the Comic Sans pool — heaven knows I find and post a few.... ;-)

(Friend of mine here just finished her 365days — the last time I looked, almost 1500 people viewed her last photo. In many ways, it’s a more interesting social phenomenon than Facebook.)

No, I’m good with it as it

fontplayer — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:46:01 -0800

No, I’m good with it as it is.
; )

Wow Dennis, do I sense an

DanGayle — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:42:16 -0800

Wow Dennis, do I sense an air of disappointment?

It is sort of like Usenet

fontplayer — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:33:08 -0800

It is sort of like Usenet used to be (minus the porn). Whatever thing you are into, there is a group based on it.

mmmm. -=®=-

russellm — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:15:18 -0800

mmmm.

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Reasons to use Flickr ?

russellm — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:12:59 -0800

I use Picasa to host images.

All the cool kids and designers seem to use Flickr. Is there any particular advantage I’m missing? Any compelling reason I should use Flickr instead of Picasa?

.... Aside from being cool, I mean.