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Colour-based photo search – Multicolr
If you’re looking for a particular colour picture to go with your document, blog post or website, this can be a frustrating and often long process (trust me, I know). Over at idée Labs, they’ve created a tool called Multicolr, which analyses photos from Flickr and serves them up according to the colour you choose from the palette on the right. Not only that, but you can choose up to 10 colours to include in the search, repeating certain ones to give them more prominence.
We didn’t go that far, but we did start with a navy blue (left) and then, perhaps in a sudden rush of patriotism, added a white and a red – et volià!
Click on any image to see it in Flickr and you’re done. It doesn’t get much easier.
Whether you’re looking for something very specific or just a bit of colourful inspiration, give Multicolr a try!
Strange Random Colour Quote:
Man needs colour to live; it’s just as necessary an element as fire and water – Fernand Leger
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Halloween Worldwide at Flickr – Halloweek part 4!
See the full group slideshow here
A couple of creepy photos for this 4th instalment of Halloweek, from the Halloween Worldwide group at Flickr.
First of all, the Haserot Angel from Cleveland, Ohio. Click on the photo to see the full-size version on Flickr.
Lake View’s most famous piece of graveside sculpture stands atop the grave of Francis Haserot and his family, near the Mark Hanna mausoleum at the edge of the cemetery proper. [……..]
What’s clear is that the Haserots’ skill in shipping big cans of food is surpassed only by their impeccable taste in art. The statue at their cemetery plot was sculpted in 1924 by Herman Matzen.
The name I’ve always heard attached to the piece is “The Angel of Death Victorious.” The angel has his hands folded atop something that most people mistakenly call a sword. It would make sense, but in this case he’s holding an upside down torch, symbolizing a life extinguished. His pose is creepy enough, but the years have streaked his bronze skin and caused tears of discolored metal to stream from his blank eyes.
Want some interesting information regarding the “haunting” of the Haserot Angel?
Visit: paranormalinsider.com/2007/10/the_haserot_angel.php
Secondly, this very colourful and autumnal shot from Helsinki:
You can find a link to the full sideshow at the top of the page – recommended viewing, in our opinion. More tomorrow!
Strange Random Graveyard Quote:
“Prophets were twice stoned – first in anger; then, after their death, with a handsome slab in the graveyard” – Christopher Morley (American writer and editor, 1890-1957)
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Get organised for UK travel!
Train Map for Waterloo Station, London
Continuing our search for the most up-to-date tools, we have a Live Map of the UK Rail service and its sister site, dedicated to the London Underground or “Tube”.
Here we’ve chosen London Waterloo from the drop-down list on the list and we can see in almost real time, the stations (in yellow) and the trains passing in and out of Waterloo (red). For a bit more fun, check the box that says “Move trains at 10x normal speed”.
Thanks to existing information on timetables, Google Maps and a little bit of “mathemagics”, the creator of this site has made a more accessible way of checking the complicated train network.
Strange Random Train Quote:
“Recent research has proven: Trains do not run on time but on electricity” – Marleen Loesje (Dutch Fictional character “Active and International girl”, b.1983)
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