Flickr is the greatest community art project ever

akaplan716:

I’m enthralled with the murals of the Mission. Recently a fancy, heavy, expensive coffee table book came out that collected all the murals into a single volume. But since I was feeling a little inspired today, I went to Flickr and searched for “Mission, Murals, San Francisco”. This slide show depicts the results of that search. Flickr is a living, breathing, evolving work of art. It shifts not only as users upload amazing new photos, but is also mutates with every query. The photo stream that emerges from each user’s search is unique, just as each user engages Flickr in a different way. It’s as if every search recreates the art object itself based on the way that person summons the rich media stored in Flickr’s databases.

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