AMY E MARTIN // Blog

The end of the semester is three weeks away. I have a game to program, a visualization or two to finish and a research paper and business plan to write. Yet for whatever reason, all I could do today was start making this thing. (For some context, Miss Trish is the name of a stray dog with a crazy under bite that I saw in a book called Street Dogs.)

So this is a tag search for the word "pomeranian" on Flickr. I wrote a Processing program that takes tag input, creates a url, sends it, parses the response and then spits out an html page. I spend such an inordinate amount of time looking at cute (and ridiculous) dogs on the internet that I thought it might be fun to see how many dogs I could handle looking at at once. A lot, apparently.

Anyway, it's in progress. If I have time I will figure out a way to add a web interface (so, perhaps if someone wants to look at tons of pictures of butterflies on flickr all at once, they need not go through page after page of scrollin'). Also, the images should probably link to the flickr page instead of just the image. Either way, I should probably get back to my school work, even though it doesn't involve hundreds of pictures of puppies.

Labels: api, flickr, interactive, processing, programming