SeeingSystem - A Flickr Javascript Slideshow

Compassionate Systems 01: Seeing System

Masters of Fine Arts, 2008, University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts (COFA)

When I was walking through this part of the city, small details would jump out at me. I started to notice lines in the bitumen on the road, the coloured shapes on walls where graffiti had been painted out, pieces of paper, bits of metal gone rusty, manhole covers, cuts made during roadwork and later filled in with different coloured bitumen, scaffolding, lines and arrows spray painted to mark the location of things under the footpath.

I started taking pictures of these unintentionally beautiful things and downloading them to my computer where they would be lost in the general clutter and later accidentally deleted. At some point I started taking pictures with my phone and emailing them to myself, which worked slightly better.

Please feel free to drop me a line if you have any questions or need any help making your own slideshow.

Please consider putting the SeeingSystem slideshow into a blog post or on your site somewhere. If you do, please drop me a line to let me know. You can put the SeeingSystem slideshow on your site just by pasting in some code that you can generate below.

Step 1: Choose what size you want and click "make the code".

Step 2: Copy the code:

Step 3: Paste it into your blog or source code.

Put your Flickr ID into the form below to generate your own slideshow.

Please look at the Technical Information on this page and this blog post for more information about how the SeeingSystem slideshow works.

Step 1: Enter the configuration details:

Flickr ID

Timeout Interval for autoplay
(in milliseconds - eg: 1000)

Fade Speed

Width (in pixels)

Height (in pixels)

Tags (a comma separated list)

Placeholder Image URL
(eg: "http://....")

Description

 

Step 2: Copy the code:

Step 3: Paste it into your blog or source code.

Note: The Seeing System slideshow stores configuration information on my server. While I will make all reasonable efforts to ensure that this configuration data is accessible, I can't guarantee that it will be. If my server goes down or is inaccessible, or if I decide on a whim to no longer support the SeeingSystem slideshow, your slideshow will stop working. I'm planning to keep this online for many years, but you never know. If you plan to use the SeeingSystem slideshow for any commercial purpose or for anything really important, please copy the static javascript that the system generates and use that instead of relying on my server. The javascript is made available under an open source license so it's free for you to use (see the license in the code for the exact terms). If yyou decide to use the static code please let me know so that a) I know and b) I can let you know if I fix any bugs.