#5 flickr

Have spent a long and circuitous time looking at flickr. Looked at the photos of library signage - enjoyed the ones that are done with a sense of style, humour and elegance; disheartening to see the ones that are just tacked up and are all about what you can't do. Looked at photos of Alice Springs - because I go there soon. Did flickr help me imagine what I might see - yes; plan what I'm going to do - not really because there is so little context. I looked at the photos of the State Library. If the photos are anything to go by the building and the spaces appeal to people and look wonderful. What appealed to me most was the photo of breakdancing on the forecourt because that is the sort of photo the Library itself is least likely to take and yet is a record of how the space is used. Was touched by the photo of the homeless man who is often on the forecourt. Technically it is not a terrific photo - for example, his head is cropped. But he is such a feature of the forecourt he deserves to be recorded but the photo does it only partially. There is no context - who is he, what has led to him being at the Library. I walk past him most days and now I want to know.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jachichi/92126283

None of the exploration (of the flickr account) and scrupulous reading of all of the instructions (about the flickr blogging tool) has helped me to work out how to add the image to the blog.