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Oly is more than tagged dumpsters and stickers

Submitted by w1r3d1 on Sun, 09/09/2007 - 8:34pm.

Thanks to all who have been tagging flickr images with real images of Olympia. While I enjoy Enpens photos, our Olywa Flickr feed has been buried in Graffiti and tags. Olympia is so much more an it is great to see some new images that reflect the beauty of our area as well.

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a little linguanalysis

Submitted by enpen on Mon, 09/10/2007 - 8:40am.

"Thanks to all who have been tagging flickr images with real images of Olympia. While I enjoy Enpens photos, our Olywa Flickr feed has been buried in Graffiti and tags. Olympia is so much more an it is great to see some new images that reflect the beauty of our area as well."

Now why don't you tell me how you really feel? At any rate, that's the beauty of beauty, it's subjectivity at its most elastic. If it helps, here's my job description:

I heard a poet read
that
night
making singing shit beautiful
the Poet job
and I agree
wholeheartedly
it's our conversion.

Sounds like you took it

Submitted by w1r3d1 on Mon, 09/10/2007 - 8:59am.

Sounds like you took it personal...... Please don't take it that way. While I enjoy your view of Oly there is so much more. August and September are awesome months in Olympia and the scenery is as well. My hope is that folks who capture these images will tag them with "Olympia Washington".

not so much

Submitted by enpen on Mon, 09/10/2007 - 12:06pm.

Less taking it personally and more taking exception to the language of your post. Any picture taken of an aspect of Olympia is, by definition a real image of Olympia. The term "buried" has few good connotations as being buried isn't, generally speaking, desirable. Referring in contrast to pictures of things other than graffiti and dumpsters as "reflect(ing) the beauty of the area" implicitly denies those things the beauty adjective.

Of course there's more to Olympia than what I'm documenting; I'm just one person. And one of the most incredible things about the technology behind Flickr (to me) is this new ability to aggregate individual experiences into a very rich communal tapestry. What I'd love to see is for somebody to take all of the pictures filtering through OlyBlog and make a photo mosaic of Olympia. Of course, some of the pictures are copyrighted...but maybe those that are under the creative commons designation. I'd consent to all of my pictures being used to turn a profit if the proceeds went to OlyBlog, for example.

Several folks are prolific

Submitted by Guglielmo on Mon, 09/10/2007 - 12:21pm.

documentors of Olympia street art. The number of photographs overwhelmes the contributions of other photographers using the "Olympia Washington" tag. Not that there is anything to do about that. I won't tell people what does or does not represent an aspect of Olympia. The last bee I photographed in Olympia, I tagged "Bee," "Flower," and "Olympia Washington." Does that be represent any aspect of Olympia that is meaningful? I don't think so. Anyway, I like the mosaic idea.

sure

Submitted by enpen on Mon, 09/10/2007 - 12:37pm.

The last bee I photographed in Olympia, I tagged "Bee," "Flower," and "Olympia Washington." Does that be represent any aspect of Olympia that is meaningful?

Sure. It means we still have bees! I hear they've been dying, or taking off for better dimensions.

Mostly I tag for flickr searching and cataloging purposes. With the amount of pictures I take of local street art the chance that any one person will actually see any one picture on OlyBlog is pretty minimal. Although, I must admit that there are occasions when I find a particularly incredible piece that I strategically place it in my uploading cue so as to maximize the chance that people on OlyBlog may see it.

How do you

Submitted by Guglielmo on Mon, 09/10/2007 - 12:55pm.

place images strategically? The buzz is that it's the Rapture of the Bees.

uploaders

Submitted by enpen on Mon, 09/10/2007 - 1:10pm.

Because of the number of pictures I upload I use an uploading program (there are at least two out there) rather than uploading directly through flickr, and I make sure the image I'd like for OlyBloggers to see is the last one in the queue. Of course, chance being what it is, sometimes somebody else uploading a bunch of pictures happens to be going at the same time and the picture is never seen by OlyBloggers. C'est la vie.

Thanks

Submitted by Guglielmo on Mon, 09/10/2007 - 2:42pm.

Last one in the queue. I try that the next time I post.

There's absolutely something to do about that

Submitted by chaney on Tue, 09/11/2007 - 12:34pm.

Start prolifically documenting something you want to document!

Yes, it really is a game of numbers

Submitted by Guglielmo on Tue, 09/11/2007 - 1:01pm.

and I'm certainly not able to keep up. Anyway, I don't have a problem with all the graffiti pictures and the fact that they overwhelm everything else with an "Olympia Washington" tag. It's just an is. And I don't think "prolific" is pejorative.

Sounds like you need a

Submitted by chaney on Mon, 09/10/2007 - 10:59am.

Sounds like you need a digital camera!

I just think it's funny that we're

Submitted by Guglielmo on Mon, 09/10/2007 - 11:14am.

taling about tagging here.

I lovehate language

Submitted by enpen on Mon, 09/10/2007 - 12:15pm.

When I first started "tagging" my pictures of graffiti in Olympia I was differentiating between tags, throw-ups and pieces. But I felt like an idiot writing "tag" in the tag field. Tag: tag. It's like some SAT analogies nightmare. Stupid language.

Not to be tangential...

Submitted by Reeechard on Mon, 09/10/2007 - 8:50pm.

but in the 09/07 issue of Popular Mechanics, there is an article about the bee disappearances. It's on page 16 and is titled "Bodies of Evidence" The [hehe] "Tag" line reads "Billions of threatened bees may get by with a little help from their tech-savvy friends in the army." They claim that the bees are suffering from "Colony Collapse Disorder" [CCD] and is likely caused by "multiple suspicious viruses." Podcast is at popularmechanics website / bees

I Didn't Know...

Submitted by JstPlnOnry on Tue, 09/11/2007 - 9:05am.

There was a Olywa Flickr feed! Can someone share the link with me? I'd love to see all the works of art shot around Oly!!!

TYVMIA!

JstPlnOnry

"Do not mistake for conspiracy and intrigue what can best be explained by stupidity and incompetence." - Unknown

Here ya go

Submitted by chaney on Tue, 09/11/2007 - 12:37pm.

Oly Oly Oly Oly Oly Oly...

There.

Submitted by Meta Hogan on Tue, 09/11/2007 - 3:58pm.

I added some photos from the spring clean-up at the well. We're having another one September 29th, so if you want to be on flickr having a great time and cleaning up the artesian well, come on down!

Edit: I added them to flickr, not here.

At the moment...

Submitted by earball on Tue, 09/11/2007 - 10:55pm.

the images are some scenic views of Olympia...several by "Georges Aerts"

I don't have any particular comment for or against photos of graffiti/tagging -- as long as it's interesting. I just like it when the photo stream has a variety of images. I don't want to look at images that are all of scribbles on the back of street signs any more than I want to look at endless photos of the capitol dome. Bring on the bees and the cyclists, the gardens and the streams. More people with more visual contexts making more photos (tagged "Olympia Washington", of course) make a more interesting town.

My own collection of Olympia photos, if anyone cares to peek, is at http://www.flickr.com/photos/earball/sets/72157600066432465/

Thanks for your

Submitted by w1r3d1 on Wed, 09/12/2007 - 8:02am.

Thanks for your contributions! This is what I was talking about. I never actually said I did not like the images from Enpen, I simply stated that Oly is more than the images he chooses to post tagged with "Olympia Washington" and hope to encourage more diversity. I hope that this post is not linguanalized, but as a defense mechanism I can appreciate the need to use linguanalysis to protect ones self, while mocking another. Tagging your images "Olympia Washington" and adding them to the Olywa group on flickr is a great way to share the beauty of our community. Enpen, if it helps I really enjoy your "door" series I think it captures the creativity and randomness of Olympia. Cheers

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