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I can't find it now, but there was a prototype someone made in the 2000s of a camera that, when you pressed the shutter, would fetch an image on Flickr that mos
by belugacat 3y ago
I can't find it now, but there was a prototype someone made in the 2000s of a camera that, when you pressed the shutter, would fetch an image on Flickr that most closely matched your GPS coordinates + time of day, acting in a similar way as a "crowdsourced camera with no lens".
Fun to the see a modern reincarnation of that idea.
(While digging around to find the above, I did find yet another camera project that does the opposite: "Matt Richardson's "Descriptive Camera" sends your pictures to Amazon's Mechanical Turk and jobs out the task of writing a brief description of each image, then outputs the text on a thermal printer. It's a camera that captures descriptions, not pictures." (https://boingboing.net/2012/04/25/descriptive-camera-prints-out.html https://boingboing.net/2012/04/25/descriptive-camera-prints-...)
- spython 3y agoIn 2013 a friend and I made a similar photo app (called parallelogram.me) but based on visual similarity instead of GPS coordinates: https://rybakov.com/parallelogram/ https://rybakov.com/parallelogram/
- dmd 3y agoDon't forget https://confluence.org/ https://confluence.org/
- KingOfCoders 3y ago+1 Great time, we claimed "first" on three confluence points on the site. I find hilarious pictures of me on that site :-)
- rgovostes 3y agoThe Camera Restricta from ~2014 prevents the user from taking pictures of over-photographed scenes: https://philippschmitt.com/archive/2018/work/camera-restricta.html https://philippschmitt.com/archive/2018/work/camera-restrict... Discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10221405 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10221405
- mgdlbp 3y agoold thread, but: Sascha Pohflepp's “Buttons” (2006/2010)? Searches Flickr for same time, any location. https://web.archive.org/web/20061005142442/http://www.blinksandbuttons.net/buttons_en.html https://web.archive.org/web/20061005142442/http://www.blinks... At a hilarious intersection of the present concerns about AI, bias, and prejudice (especially as voiced in the current front-page article^1 about a different blind camera project, from 2022), and the state of internet search engines, given the query [blind camera art project], Bing and Google find only articles about visually impaired photographers, but Yandex finds an entire results page of articles about the work we're looking for! What gives? ^1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36149468 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36149468