Quoting Herzog by Daniel Bennett

This is a documentation of 4 passes of a program that uses Flickr.com's API to pull live images from the site.

The pictures are pulled based on how the users have tagged that image, the words are from Saul Bellow's novel Herzog (i.e. when the speaker reads the word "earth", a picture tagged with the word "earth" is generated at random. The audio is endless in the program.

Feel free to stop at any point after the first pass, or enjoy all 4!

By Daniel Bennett

Text read by:
Zev Steinberg

Video is under a "by/share alike/commericial use" creative commons license, though the audio is all rights reserved.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• art
• saul
• bellow
• herzog
• daniel
• bennett
• zev
• steinberg
• audiobook
• audio
• read
• reading
• flickr
• flickr.com
• api
• webbased

[dadalus]

matching words with images is undermining readers' imagination. why would a personal suffering be represented by an open teeth?

[dutchsparrow]

@dadalus It's a new media comment on how people "tag" photos with words. I respect the idea that words create ideas/images in your mind to create your own image. This is speaking of the opposite, that visuals can have context and a "visual language" I just used Bellow because he's a very visual writer.

[garrettbrennan]

Thank you for taking the time out to remembere Saul Bellow. I am surprised that there is so little on Saul Bellow on YouTube!