How many photos are uploaded to Flickr every day? If you say, "a lot" you'd be right - but how can one best visualize the million plus photos that are uploaded every day?

Artist Erik Kessels created an exhibit, on display at What's Next, the Future of Photography at Foam in Amsterdam, by printing every single photographs uploaded to Flickr within a 24-hour period. The result? Something that looks like Uncle Scrooge's bank, except with photos instead of money!

Link via Craftzine

If you’ve ever wanted to make your own animation without the use of a computer, a zoetrope is a good way to go. And using Legos to make it is just plain fun. You can see it in action here.

Link Via Craftzine

Danbo is an absolutely precious cardboard man that travels the streets of Japan. Or at least according to this adorable Flickr series by user ru0905.

Link Via Viral Bender

Have you ever wondered what Disneyland had to offer before it began getting massive, modernizing facelifts? Then take a look at this old map of the magical kingdom from 1962, scanned and uploaded in full size by Wishbook, with lots of classic Disney character heads surrounding a detailed, Imagineer drawn map! Look for the view all sizes button on Flickr and choose original size if you want to read the tiny text, and see all the pretty little drawings up close.

Link via Boing Boing.

Dr. Nigella Hillgarth, director of the Birch Aquarium at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, took this picture during an outing last month off the coast of Baja California.

The Young Gray Whale came up to our Boat and put its head up – a life changing experience

Definitely worth sharing! Link -Thanks, Dr. Hillgarth!

What happens to all of your digital web accounts when you die? All those Flickr photos, for instance. Well, Richard Banks, who works on a project called Technology Heirloom for Microsoft Research, created a device meant to pay tribute to a passed love one, called the Timecard:

This is a timeline viewer, meant to represent someone’s life, that we imagine might be the digital equivalent of a photo album or baby book. We’d like to think that it might become a precious object for a family, forming a new class of digital heirloom.

Hit play or go to Link [Vimeo] | Technology Heirlooms project | Interview with BBC

Groovy! This page takes recent Creative Commons photos from Flickr and turns them into kaleidoscopic images. Use the lowest button to change the image, and your mouse to change the kaleidoscopic effects. Link -via J-Walk Blog

The above video is a reconstruction of the Croatian city of Dubrovnik. Rebecca Boyle writes in Popular Science that computer scientists at the University of Washington’s Graphics and Imaging Laboratory have been using Microsoft’s program Photosynth to compile Flickr images of major landmarks in order to create 3-D digital models:

“The key difference is that Photosynth was aimed at doing a single monument or landmark, which meant that it was scaled to a couple hundred or a thousand photographs, after which it became too slow,” said Sameer Agarwal, an assistant professor at UW who worked on the project. “We can now process truly huge data sets — the big breakthrough here was being able to match the images fast.”

A series of videos on the project Web site lets visitors fly through landmarks like St. Peter’s Basilica, the Colosseum and Venice’s San Marco Square. For much smaller Dubrovnik, you can see the whole city, including mountains in the distance.

Each video includes clusters of small diamond shapes, which represent each photographer and his or her vantage point.

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In this Flickr pool titled Looking Into the Past, people hold out old pictures of their homes or neighborhods and overlap them with the current structures as background to create fascinating "then and now" collages.

At first I thought there was no way it was real, just some dandy Photoshopping. The closer I got though, I think they’re legit, although a few are suspect. They are from different people, and looks like they all congregate on Flickr to share. Pretty rad. I’m so happy I don’t have a stack of old photos from my neighborhood. I might not get anything done the next few days. “Why is that guy standing in the middle of the street taking pictures of his hand?”

Link – via google

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by mrsmojorisin.

With Multicolr Search Lab by Idée Labs, you can browse through 10 million of Flickr’s most interesting Creative Commons images according to colors (in this case, a set of up to 10 colors). It’s quite speedy and neat!

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by McJohnny.

(image credit: Flickr user xetark)

Did you know that the movie Iron Man used a Creative Commons-licensed photo from Flickr? Here’s the story of how Jeremy Keith’s photo of his buddy Andy Budd in NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building in Cape Canaveral ended up in the movie:

“Wait a minute”, I said. “What is this for?”

“It’s for a movie that’s currently in production called Iron Man, starring Robert Downey Jnr.”

Holy crap! One of my photos was going to be in Iron Man? That certainly put a new spin on things.

“So I guess you want to use the picture because it’s inside NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building?” I asked.

“No. We just thought it was a picture of some warehouse or something.”

Read the whole story here: Link – via Flickr Blog

In many ways the Places project is a big thank you to all the wonderful photographers who have taken the time to put their photos on the map. With nearly 50 million geotagged photos – around 35 million of which are public – it was about build something to better show them off.

Link – via Flickr Blog

Yesterday the 2 billionth photo was uploaded to the Flickr photo sharing web site.

Yes, this is the 2 billionth photo on flickr. It was taken in front of Market City in Chinatown Haymarket in Sydney.

Link – via kottke.org