It is blindingly easy to use your Flickr account as a Photo Management system for a website.

At it’s very simplest, create a new Flickr account, apply for a API key ( under Explore -> Flickr Services ) and then make an HTTP call to one of the many services available through their API.

If all you want to do is load in your own images, then construct a simple URL using one of the following methods (or one of the hundreds available at Flickr Services): (more…)

Building in Den Haag, originally uploaded by ghostmonk.

Standing at a busy intersection of a major city, allowing the light from the bright-red flashing advertisements to assail my retinas. What goes through the minds of each tunnel-visioned pedestrian as he or she scurries through the crowd?

The cacophony blur of roaring motorists trickles through the mind. Brief snippets of cell phone conversations, emergency sirens and the general din of the city shivers through my physics. It’s a rogues gallery of pungent meat vendors and inconvenient beggars. (more…)