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                           Composites and annotations
                                        
I came across these photos [1] (via lemonodor [2]) and little did I realize
that there's a whole Flickr [3] community devoted to such “composite photos
[4]” (well, maybe “community” is too strong a word here—more like a group of
people who tag such work with “composite”).

Reminds me of the one I did [5].

Another interesting feature of Flickr is the annotations one can add [6],
although it's done through Flash. Surely, I thought, there must be a way to
do that through CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and maybe some Javascript. So
last night (well, technically this morning) I played around a bit. Yes there
is a way [7], I thought. And I need to stop calling myself Shirly.

It's not perfect [8], but as a “proof-of-concept” it's not bad.

[1] http://flickr.com/photos/anzi/sets/75845/
[2] http://lemonodor.com/archives/001028.html#001028
[3] http://www.flickr.com/
[4] http://flickr.com/photos/tags/composite/
[5] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2003/06/13.1
[6] http://flickr.com/photos/anzi/3030587/in/set-75845/
[7] http://www.conman.org/people/spc/writings/hypertext/flickr/
[8] http://www.conman.org/people/spc/writings/hypertext/flickr/

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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