26 February 2006
Flickeur
Flickeur... What is Flickeur?
A Wired article on Flickr mashups took me to Flickeur.
Flickeur is... Weird. To quote the Wired article, Flickeur "loads a bunch of Flickr photos and plays them back as a short film set to music". However, that doesn't go quite far enough. The photos are random. The music is always the same, but it's randomised in some ways. Certain effects are applied to the photos, which merge into each other, mutate, morph, collage... There are also text effects. The end result looks like a documentary made by a deranged artist, armed with a Holga and a set of faulty musical intruments.
This could be an amazingly useful tool if you wanted to come up with a plot for a novel or a screenplay or just let your mind drift. As you watch, your mind makes associations and you begin telling yourself the story. But there is no story. Everything is supposedly random. ("The Truth Is Out There....").
To use Flickeur, you need Flashplayer 8. The site itself analyses your computer and gives you a link to the Flash player if you don't have it installed. I've tested Flickeur on Safari 1.3.2 and on Firefox 1.5.0.1 (on Mac OS X 10.3.9) and it works happily on both. It's worth a few minutes of your time if you'd like to see what can be done with stills.
A Wired article on Flickr mashups took me to Flickeur.
Flickeur is... Weird. To quote the Wired article, Flickeur "loads a bunch of Flickr photos and plays them back as a short film set to music". However, that doesn't go quite far enough. The photos are random. The music is always the same, but it's randomised in some ways. Certain effects are applied to the photos, which merge into each other, mutate, morph, collage... There are also text effects. The end result looks like a documentary made by a deranged artist, armed with a Holga and a set of faulty musical intruments.
This could be an amazingly useful tool if you wanted to come up with a plot for a novel or a screenplay or just let your mind drift. As you watch, your mind makes associations and you begin telling yourself the story. But there is no story. Everything is supposedly random. ("The Truth Is Out There....").
To use Flickeur, you need Flashplayer 8. The site itself analyses your computer and gives you a link to the Flash player if you don't have it installed. I've tested Flickeur on Safari 1.3.2 and on Firefox 1.5.0.1 (on Mac OS X 10.3.9) and it works happily on both. It's worth a few minutes of your time if you'd like to see what can be done with stills.
# posted by Joe Tarrant @ Sunday, February 26, 2006 
