Kevin Lucks Flickr API, Flashr, looks the easiest way to grab images from Flickr. When I say easy it's easy in theory and there's a couple of tutorials about it. In practice it's a little different but once I get it working it will give me a litte more flexibility than the PHP API I looked at before Christmas.
Put simply Flashr grabs the images from Flickr and I can skin a Flash page over the top, you could use tags, user ID, last photos etc. Just like this
Self Portrait
The idea is that through ten computers in the gallery itself and through the Pace/MacGill website people can search through the thousands of photographs on flickr tagged with "selfportrait"” and can choose the ones they like best to add to the gallery's favourites. This enables members of the public to act as curators for an exhibition in a major New York gallery
or this
Findr
At this stage Flashr I think be used as part of the search engine in the second part of the site. It may even work in combination with Processing. There is a tutorial in this months Web Designer magazine that would allow me to create a Flash based portfolio for each person who upload workInitiallyaly this could be run through Flickr, Flickr would just act as a database. The Flash skin can look however I want it to. It would be a way of stripping away the Flickr interface but still make use of all there background stuff that makes Flickr run (tags, image searching, storing images etc) Print this post
