Flickeur is all at once unsettling and silly (it uses flash, after all). The explanation for how the program functions is at the bottom, but once you start watching it, you get to wondering what it is, exactly, that makes it work so well. It probably feels most like a documentary about a serial killer, with its typed log of events and eldritch soundtrack. It is at its most interesting when there are series that really work when overlaid or juxtaposed. Taking from the entire pool of inane DSC_10012, etc. easyclick shots and the more professional alike proves effective, and I'm also pleased that the log that is incorporated is that of the miscellaneous descriptions of all the images on flickr. It seems incredible to me that code can be written for this kind of improvisation, however simple it might be to generate.
These are a couple minutes that I saw:
Two ugly pug dogs gussied up in red bows
A smiling cover girl
January 30, 2007. Something tells me her modeling days are over
bleached out photo, a boy in a field, only half of his head in the picture
Thursday, October 6, 2007. How many times have I told you I hate you?
A palm with a baby rabbit in its center
a huge glistening eye, and then an overexposed blue sky with blood red foliage
the baby rabbit, again and again
Monday, May 8, 2006 - 04:06. Shock and Awwwwwwwwww
the dome of the Seville Cathedral
Yea, it's better to see it for yourself. check it out, fool.
In other news, CSI: NY was amazing and I hope the current (I use this term loosely, since "current" over here means "episode I currently have my hands on") crossover episode in the Second City spawns CSI: Chicago. Chicago has been left wanting as a setting for a decent television show since Family Matters went off the air. CSI: NY gets top marks- not only have they already done an episode this season where Gary Sinise chases a murderer through Second Life, but now Sinise finds himself at the Tribune building, after following the clues (a bit of the Alamo, the Hagia Sophia, and the California redwood forest) to their embedment in the skyscrapers' walls. Some may argue that CSI: NY has really been jumping the shark recently, but who are they kidding: that's what makes it so fantastic.
As for realism in television, the writers strike is ushering in a new batch of really terrible reality shows. How about this show Mark Wahlberg is going to be hosting called A Moment of Truth, where contestants are strapped into a polygraph and asked the most intimate questions about their personal lives? The polygraph machine seems almost extraneous, since it seems pretty impossible to imagine that anyone would be able to lie to Mark Walhberg.
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