Descriptive Camera produces a printout of a description of that image. It works like a regular camera -- point and click to shoot -- but what's captured in the viewfinder is sent to the anonymous workers in Amazon's Mechanical Turk program, who are paid $1.25 per image to write a brief description.
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"...a large part of what makes digital works unique is their ability to be easily replicated, remixed and shared." - Via
"You have given yourself the trouble to go into matters thoroughly, I see. That is one of the secrets of success in life." -
Anthony Powell (The Kindly Ones, p. 51, 2nd Movement in A Dance to the Music of Time)"It won’t always be summer: build barns." - Hesiod 700 B.C.
"One little known secret to making precisely the right move, at precisely the right time in your life, is knowing that in all cases, there is more than one right move and more than one right time." - TU
"We chase 'fast culture' at our peril - unusual words and difficult art are good for us." - Will Self
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