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    two people carrying very large baskets on their head walking along a beach

    3. The Longest Kayak Journey in the World

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    hand drawn illustration of a spaceship

    2. The UK’s UFO Desk

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    Three women sitting on Fionn Mac Cumhaill's (Finn Mac Cool) Wishing Chair at the Giant's Causeway, Co. Antrim. They're selling tourist trinkets and books containing views of the locality. The woman on the left is barefoot.

    1. Classic Photo, Modern Rock

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    White woman lies on a bed, wearing glasses designed for reading in bed. She is resting a book on her torso.

    Research diary: long-term thinking and lots of reading

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    Welcome, Jenn!

    We're proud to welcome the Foundation's first Research Fellow!

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    Navy corpsmen on a boat looking at a hospital ship

    Interview: Navy Medicine on Flickr Commons

    Read more about how Navy Medicine uses their Flickr Commons account.

    Read the interview
    Two photographs of women, side by side in a photo album. There is a ghostly face behind the women in each image

    Flickr Commons: Grand Galleries, Admired Albums

    Flickr's Albums and Galleries are a great way to find shareable content and curate Flickr Commons massive trove of freely reusable images

    Learn how it works
    Tommy Dodgen, a four year old boy, stands by the largest lamp in the world: Tampa, Florida

    Florida Memory on Flickr Commons

    How the State Library & Archives of Florida chooses which unique, fascinating, and quirky images to put on Flickr Commons.

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    Introducing flinumeratr, our first toy

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    Welcome, Alex!

    Our first Tech Lead started this week, and there's already a very first public repo on Github.

    Hooray!
    A man standing on top of some dissassembled furniture inside a warehouse full of such furtniture

    Sorting a millions-of-things pile

    We've decided to create a Collection Development Policy for Flickr Commons.

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    engraving image from a book showing a number of devices used in bloodletting.

    Is a photo of a drawing a drawing or a photo?

    Image classification is an old problem.

    See how to do it on Flickr

    When past meets predictive

    Working ‘field notes’ as a snapshot in time facing computed image generation.

    Read up on the research interview

    Our reflections about Image Generators

    “What would happen if we used AI image generators to recreate The Family of Man?”

    Lots to consider

    Exploring Generated Imagery

    Using the 1955 MoMA exhibition, The Family of Man, as our inspiration, we've created an exploration and time capsule to represent the state of generative AI today.

    Explore the creation process