Video: Flickr and Twitter user maps. Eric Fisher's photo panoramas
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Many readers of Kulturologiya. Ru saw bright night world maps, but which cities and villages are highlighted with colored spots. A mind-blowing sight. Now imagine that every person is lit up - what will be the planet then? Epic panoramas give a rough idea of this. Eric Fisher (Eric Fischer), which is Flickr and Twitter user maps worldwide.
Probably, it was possible not to write about it: Twitter is the world's most popular social network for microblogging, and Flickr is the largest service for storing photos and communicating, in which tens of millions of amateur and professional photographers are registered. Modern technologies make it possible to track where a particular photo or Twitter post came from (if the user so wishes). This is where the American photographer Eric Fischer takes the "information for thought", on the basis of which he creates huge cards.
Of course, first of all, these are statistics. On user maps Fischer's work, Twitter users are highlighted in blue, and Flickr followers are highlighted in orange. Some places on the planet are blue (for example, Singapore captured by the Twitter plague), others are orange, and some are just white (for example, London), to such an extent there are many users of both services.
But who said that statistics and art are incompatible? We have already seen how statistics become surreal landscapes in Jonathan Zawada's paintings. Fisher's Cards one cannot but be recognized as works of art - because, first of all, they are beautiful, and secondly, they make one think. Think about the place of the Internet and social networks in human life. For example, Flickr is a real virtual Mecca of photography, and many articles on Culturology. Ru simply would not have appeared without it.
Of course, Eric Fisher does his user cards mostly with the help of a computer. But isn't this the artist's task - to see and reveal beauty where others will pass by?
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