Fun with Flickr

I've been using Flickr for a while now, after having seen it being used on friends' blogs. I admit that I don't upload my pictures to Flickr regularly, as that requires extra time and effort that I don't usually allot to myself. I do like that Flickr makes sharing photos with family and friends easy, but my family and friends didn't like the fact that when I invited them to view my Flickr account for the first time, they had to register for a Yahoo! account in order to become a member.

I'd never checked out the mashups or 3rd party sites associated with Flickr, and now I'm sorry I didn't! There are some really cool things available to mess around with. I figured out how to make a photo bar and I was able to place it at the bottom of my blog. It has a few random pictures from my Flickr photostream, and a link to my Flickr photos. Check it out! My children and I had fun making up thoughts and conversations for people and things in pictures that we found on Flickr using Bubblr.

Bubblr is a fun way to create comic strips using pictures that you find on Flickr. All public photos on Flickr are available for your use, all you need is a little time. We made a really funny strip using a few pictures of horses playing. One of the horses had a crazy looking mane that stood straight up, kind of like a mohawk. We had him trying to impress the filly by having Sanjaya style his hair. It was funny, but we accidentally closed out the window and lost it forever. So we made another one, just one panel, using a picture that we found after searching for photos by using the word "reading". It's not as funny, but this is what we came up with:



So I guess having done that, I've accomplished things 5 and 6 on the list.