Composites and annotations

I came across these photos [1] (via lemonodor [2]) and little did I realize that there's a whole Flickr [3] community devoted to such “composite photos [4]” (well, maybe “community” is too strong a word here—more like a group of people who tag such work with “composite”).

Reminds me of the one I did [5].

Another interesting feature of Flickr is the annotations one can add [6], although it's done through Flash. Surely, I thought, there must be a way to do that through CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and maybe some Javascript. So last night (well, technically this morning) I played around a bit. Yes there is a way [7], I thought. And I need to stop calling myself Shirly.

It's not perfect [8], but as a “proof-of-concept” it's not bad.

=> [1] http://flickr.com/photos/anzi/sets/75845/ | [2] http://lemonodor.com/archives/001028.html#001028 | [3] http://www.flickr.com/ | [4] http://flickr.com/photos/tags/composite/ | [5] /boston/2003/06/13.1 | [6] http://flickr.com/photos/anzi/3030587/in/set-75845/ | [7] http://www.conman.org/people/spc/writings/hypertext/flickr/ | [8] http://www.conman.org/people/spc/writings/hypertext/flickr/

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