Junk, illustrated

This is a picture of someone's desk. Someone who calls her- or himself "Comatose." Click on the picture and you will not only see a large image. But you will see it annotated (run your cursor over the rectangles). If you click on this, you will be treated to a slide show of images that have been "tagged" as "junk." Ever since I used the term "junk" (well, actually "junkyard" - but it's really not about the yard), I've been looking for a more accurate way to capture the true spirit of junk. So you can understand why I'm so excited, and grateful to the brilliantly playful Ianus Keller for showing this site to me.

There's even another reason. It's called "Flickr. It's where I found my new pictorial definition of junk, and a gateway to what you might call an online photo storage/management/sharing community. With Flickr (currently in Beta, and free), you can keep your photos completely to yourself. You can share them with a select few. Or you can share them with everyone. You can add comments. You can add tags. You can upload photos from your camera phone. Up to 10 Megs-per-month's-worth of throughput. You can join and publish to groups. You can publish your photos via newsfeed.

It takes a while to understand what all this is and does and means. And even if you play with Flickr for months, you won't get the whole picture, as it were, until you take a look at Flickr's developers, a group called, oddly enough, "Ludicorp" whose stated mission is the creation of "Groupware for Play." Ah ha!

There's more. There's too much more. I must myself go, therefore and join the virtual frolic.