Posts Tagged ‘ Flickr ’

Instagramming My Week

Instagramming My Week

I have recently started using Instagram more.  After balking the trend and lamenting loudly, and frequently, about Instagram’s lack of collaborative, community-building and searching tools, I finally caved.   I blame the Food Bloggers of Canada conference. Well, that and Instagram’s slick and quick interface which makes it so easy to share a photo and push it out onto my social spaces. (Where I can collaborate and build communities). Since I’m just getting rolling with Instagram it’s one of the few (only?) social media spaces where I have less than 500 followers AND where I have a higher follow-to-follower ratio.…

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Today: 15000th photo to Flickr, and my 9th blogiversary.

Today: 15000th photo to Flickr, and my 9th blogiversary.

Today marks the 9th anniversary of my personal blog – unsweetened.ca (yes, this one!) The photo above is also the 15000 photo I have loaded to my personal account on Flickr. Yes 15000! If I ever wonder if I’m producing enough, this just answered it for me. Though I have a backlog of photos, posts and ideas just bursting to get out, so don’t expect me to stop any time soon.

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A Breakfast Test

A Breakfast Test

A breakfast test — Originally uploaded by LexnGer Just heading over to the Agile Conference and grabbed a quick breakfast at Canteen (they had a lovely blood orange marmalade this morning) Just checking that flickr blog thing again.  

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Testing Flickr’s New Share Changes

Testing Flickr’s New Share Changes

Testing Flickr’s New Share Changes — Originally uploaded by LexnGer Flickr has just introduced some new changes to their “blog this”/sharefeature.One of the major changes is the removal of the custom blogging templates toprovide one-click blogging. Because of this they have also removed supportfor the less used blogging platforms including Typepad which I’ve beenusing regularly for almost 10 years.With this post, I’m testing the email to blog feature, which I use regularlyto blog from the island, to see if they’ve left that working or hobbled thattoo.

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potential @ camaraderie

potential @ camaraderie

Finally, I’ve got the photos from the reception up on Flickr and ready to share. The folks at Camaraderie, Toronto’s newest co-working space, invited me to hang a collection on their walls. I have selected the brightest, most vibrant of my photos in a collection called Potential @ Camaraderie  to reflect the vibrant folks who work in the space. The slideshow below  shows the photos in the collection, photos of them being framed and hung. And of course the reception we held on August 3,2010 sponsored by the kind folks at Heineken and LittleKitchen.ca on August 3rd.  We had a…

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Commercial or Journalistic? You Tell Me

Commercial or Journalistic? You Tell Me

In the final episode of the Toronto Life Creative Commons drama, we have identified the issue to be a difference of opinion about what constitutes “Commercial Use”. After I sent in my letter to Toronto Life, I got a quick, respectful and reasoned response from Matthew Fox, Editor of TorontoLife.com. We have resolved the usage issue by TorontoLife.com including a link to CheapEatsToronto.com where they use any of my images (and they have already implemented this.) Matthew’s reply to my letter stated that TorontoLife.com believes the use of the images was journalistic and not directly commercial, and thus did not cause…

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Letter to Toronto Life

Letter to Toronto Life

As many of you have voiced your support on my Creative Commons issue with Toronto Life, I thought I’d share the letter I sent them about their use of my photos without permission.  [original post about that is here]   Hi, I’m writing because 2 of my photos are being used without my permission on your Daily Dish section. Both photos have a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en_CA) which states explicitly that my photos are available for non-commercial use only. I also state, explicitly, in my Flickr profile “If you want to buy any of my photos for commercial use,…

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Quickie Photo to Custom Banner

Quickie Photo to Custom Banner

Who knew it was so easy to create a banner?!?! Flagrant Disregard has a Blog Banner Creation Tool that lets you quickly convert a Flickr photo to a custom blog header.     Original Photo: Like Daughter Like Mother You don’t have to use a flickr photo, you can also load photos from your computer too… but doing it via flickr is dead easy.

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The 50 Paces Project – Artist Statement

The 50 Paces Project – Artist Statement

On request, I am posting the Artist Statement I wrote for 50 Paces: an Installation opening at the Saint John Arts Centre on Friday May 4th.  (That’s in Saint John, New Brunswick in case you didn’t know.) Happily, the universe has worked with us to shift things around enough so I can go to the opening Friday and then spend the weekend on the island. Woo  Hoo! How far do you have to walk to get a litre of milk? If you wanted a coffee, how many paces would it take to get to your local diner?  To get to your favourite…

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Wasted unsweetened_365

Wasted unsweetened_365

Given the overwhelming response to including my flickr photos in my RSS feed for unsweetened.ca, it seems that unsweetened_365 is redundant… and, well, kinda more effort than it’s worth to maintain since everything is going to Flickr anyway. So, kind readers, if you’ve been watching unsweetened_365 please redirect your RSS readers to: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Unsweetenedca and you will get unsweetened.ca posts, a selection of the photos I load daily to lexnger flickr photos and deli.cio.us links I bookmark. If you really don’t want me to do this – speak up now.  

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50 Paces an Installation

50 Paces an Installation

You thought I struggled with picking a new name for this blog and writing my bio for In The Kitchen?    That, my dear friends, was small potatoes.  Baby potatoes. Seed potatoes compared to writing an Artist's Statement. "Why?", you might ask, "would you need an artist's statement?"  The Saint John Arts Centre is doing an exhibit on the 50 Paces Project!!  Once my mother, the art teacher, stopped laughing she offered to help me pull it together.  My friend Lorna, whose show Honeytrap is on at akau inc. right now,  has offered her advice on how to avoid sounding…

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Now Stacked On BlogTO

Now Stacked On BlogTO

Now Available Stacked — Originally uploaded by LexnGer The guys over on BlogTO have selected this photo as part of their Friday Flickr Forum. It should be up there as part of a selection of photos Friday morning.

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