📷 In Shadow & Light #50 we revisit 50s Italy and look at a brief history of Polaroid. We take a look at life on the New York Subway in the 1970s/80s and find out what life is like as a National Geographic Photographer.
As part of my Flipboard residency I'm having a close look at the topic (https://flipboard.com/topic/photography) and ways we might be able to make things even better.
Is it meeting your needs? Are there things you'd like to see more of? (or less of!) I have my own thoughts but keen to help make this as useful as it can be for the whole community so if you have any strong opinions on how things could be better for you let me know.
When it comes to feed #curation, nobody beats a talented human. Thus, I'm a huge advocate for features which help you (a human) refine the set of accounts (other humans) you follow + unfollow. All to find a signal/noise sweet spot where your mutual interests overlap most closely.
Today's example is a suggestion posted to bsky, but since there are fewer client devs there, maybe it'll catch traction more quickly here. Some variant on a private dislike score.
Tim Pierce @topaz.unchi.org What I'm envisioning is something like a "dislike" button, which wouldn't publish results to anyone else but would adjust the score I've assigned to that user. Scores could appear, say, on the user's profile. It would be integrated into the regular social media experience.
Doctor Memory @blank.org This is brilliant. Somewhere around -15 the interface should auto-hide the posts "post from a low-scoring account, click to show". Anything that hits -50 is automatically fully blocked for your own good.
Tim Pierce @topaz.unchi.org Yes! Let users set thresholds for "automatically mute" and "automatically block".
In my conversations for @Flipboard's "The Art of #curation" #podcast, I kept hearing the word #curiosity when I asked curators what made them successful.
Scott Shigeoka has poured his life into understanding this quality, which is the subject of his upcoming book “Seek: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World.”
Get a jumpstart on the sure-to-be-best-seller’s key ideas and learn how to become a more curious person yourself (and why it matters).
I'm always so curious about the ingredients of a great #playlist. Music curator extraordinaire Kasey Gelsomino, the creator of "Oat Milk Lattes in the Mountains" on #spotify and Kasey's Playlist on #tiktok, shared her secrets with me in today's podcast conversation for @Flipboard:
Looking for some reads about #photography for the weekend? @flakphoto has curated another monthly roundup of interesting and visually pleasing stories.
Ever been moved to tears just thinking about the beauty and impact of #art?
It happened during this episode of @Flipboard's The Art of Curation podcast — an interview with two security guards from the Baltimore Museum of Art who participated in curating the "Guarding the Art" show in 2022.
It was refreshing to hear from people with a great appreciation for art, but who are often overlooked when it comes to sharing their opinions about it.
Museum guards spend hours with the artifacts they watch over, so of course they’re going to have opinions about #art and #curation. Get to know 2 of the guards who participated in the Baltimore Museum of Art's 2022 show, “Guarding the Art.” They’re not just protecting the art; they’re in a relationship with it and how people react to it. Just talking about the profound impact of art moved one guard to tears, and for that alone, I love this interview.
Our social media feeds are shaped by algorithms, and that means the things we see, experience and like in the real world are too. The New Yorker's @chaykak has written about this "algorithmication" in "Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture," which will be out in January 2024. @miaq interviewed him for @Flipboard's podcast, The Art of Curation. Here's the episode and some info about what they discussed.
At a music festival I once noticed I was surrounded by the House x Techno bomber — a jacket I had seen in my own feed. The algorithm knew me — knew all of us — and I was seeing its effects IRL.
But what does this phenomenon mean for our culture at large? How can it be that algos are shrinking and expanding our horizons at the same time? How will #generativeAI impact culture?
What’s it like being a first-mover #curator on Mastodon? Just ask Sabine Stoye, who runs the beloved @viewfinderCurator and @artskorps accounts. A linguist with a passion for the arts, Sabine shares why she’s made her curatorial home on #Mastodon and what she looks for when boosting #artists and #photographers on the platform.
As Substack's Storytelling Lead, Hannah Ray sets out to find and elevate amazing writers, especially the ones who might not naturally toot their own horns. How does she do it?
Find out on the latest episode of "The Art of Curation," a podcast for @Flipboard about the role of human taste in a tech-driven world. Thanks for #listening!