THE TAMPON CHANDELIER (at left) is my most-viewed image on Flickr (more than 77,000 views to date). I joined Flickr in the summer of 2004, back when it was a beta social network. Since that time, my images stored on Flickr have been seen more than 1.2m times--many more than would have looked at my photo albums anywhere else. I like Flickr more for its storage space than for its social dimension. I trust Yahoo! (Flickr's owner) to safeguard my images online, in constantly expanding database clusters. I really like having Flickr just a few clicks away from my camerphone's lens. I've sent hundreds of images to Flickr using O2's e-mail service in Ireland. I'm also using the mobile version of Flickr and uploading images via a webform. The easiest way to upload is through Series 60 programs like Zonetag. Using Zonetag, I can upload to Flickr in just two clicks of the cameraphone, embedding the latitude and longitude of the image as it goes upstream. When Flickr started accepting videos, I realised that I don't have a personal terabyte of storage at home and that means Flickr is my terabyte. That has to change because as anyone knows, once you start ripping and sharing audio and video content for television sets and speaker systems around the house, you need easily-managed network storage locations. So, I'm off to PutPlace to increase my subscription plan.
The tampon chandelier was part of the 2005 Venice Biennale.
