Well it’s more of a river, really. Its name is play.blogger, although on the web page it clearly says Blogger Play.
(Click on the thumbnails to enlarge them.)
It’s a continuous feed of all the images that are being uploaded to peoples Blogspot blogs (Blogger). The staff at Google have enjoyed watching this stream of random images for sometime now, but now they have decided to make it visible to us, the great unwashed, after (I presume) designing some smart picture filters that will prevent us from having a fit of the vapours should we see something that might be considered offensive.
There are some simple controls that allow you to read descriptions of the pictures, and vary the speed of the flow, or even stop and reverse it.
It is hypnotic in its randomness and one of the most compulsive wastes of otherwise productive time so you must use it with caution.
The weird thing is that on the two occasions that I looked at it yesterday, I recognised the work of, or the name of two people I know, who just happened to be uploading that very minute.
Here are the links to their blogs, just out of curiosity.
Marco Piersma, who I worked with on “Space Jam”, and one of last year’s graduates from Ravensbourne, Gareth While.
And now some silly pictures…
The more you look at Blogger Play, the more it resembles a torrent rather than a stream, especially if you crank up the speed slider!
I use the slightly pretentious word consciousness in connection with Blogger Play because it really does seem to me like a sort of visible representation of the collective unconscious of the world (or at least the Blogger world).
Have fun!
