Cool Flickr Search Thingy - FlickrHiveMind

Have you discovered FlickrHiveMind yet?  It’s a great little search tool -



I stumbled on it it by accident because yesterday’s blog post picture apparently appeared on Explore on Flickr - it’s one of those ‘interesting picture of the day’ things that I have no idea what the pre-requisites for being chosen are!






Anyway, I was jolly chuffed - and then after a bit of entirely mindless clicking  - I found myself on a list of “The World’s Best Photos of Ruby Star Rising”  - LOL!  Talk about hype -- but anyway, I was super delighted to see that my DQS10 Bloody Mary quilt was on there … I guess this search engine is based on activity/number of hits/comments or summat?



when I searched my flickr user name - this is what came up …




It’s lovely - you can search by date or ‘interstingness’ etc. and there are different page views … I liked the thumbnail view …



You can also search any of your tags and it will show all other pics on flickr with that tag … you get the picture?  Hours of endless timewasting opportunities here I think …

FlickrHiveMind is above all a great image search engine for flickr content.  Give it a go!

Reclaim The Fun

I’m a big fan of Fun. 

One of the aspects of getting older I’m so not keen on, is how easily we seem to lose our capacity for Fun … or maybe even forget we ever had it?  I’m not saying we do this on purpose.  It just happens.

Fun doesn’t require you to be happy and irresponsible 24/7.  It doesn't want you have to deny the serious stuff going on in your life.

It just requires that occasionally, in the midst of the everyday drudge, you just let go and welcome it with jazz hands as it sweeps you off your feet for a couple of gentle minutes.

please enjoy this gentlest of 1min 42s:

Volkswagen has another great viral campaign - Fun Theory -  a competition for innovative fun solutions to common problems ... You can see them at the Fun Theory website.

Happy Friday!  

Remember to let the fun in this weekend.