Friday, September 14, 2007

Online assist for speedy daydreaming

Blogger - they host this and thousands of other (free) blogs - just put up a fun site that "will show you a never-ending stream of images that were just uploaded to public Blogger blogs. You can click the image to be taken directly to the blog post it was uploaded to, or click 'show info' to see an overlay with the post title, a snippet of the body, and some profile information about the blogger who uploaded it."

http://play.blogger.com/

It's such a simple concept, but the result is surprisingly addictive. I think it must hold the same fascination as looking through the boxes of old photographs at the Alemany or Berkeley Flea Markets and doing some speedy daydreaming: who are the people in these pictures, where were they taken, and when? I love those boxes.

A quick, 5-minute stare session resulted in these two finds:

SpiralMail (http://spiralmail.blogspot.com/), dedicated to the exchange and documentation of mailart

myphotosssss (http://pamzzzzz.blogspot.com/), random amateur photography from Tehran, Iran

What else is out there?

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