Draxtor Despres has produced a piece on a beautiful and fascinating installation by IDIALAB.

The installation is called Flickr Gettr, but don’t be fooled by its slightly vowel-deficient name. I know cool things when I see them, and this is most definitely one of them.

Flickr Gettr sits underwater in Second Life, adding to its ethereal.. well, immersiveness. Put in a query and it scours Flickr for related images, creating a mutating display of images, with vocal accompaniment.

It’s a beautifully immersive form of data-visualisation, mixing creativity, serendipity and public data-sources into a compelling fusion.

You should see this. In order to do that, though, you’re going to have to unship (that is, use) Second Life viewer 2, and make sure shared-media, and streaming media are enabled. You won’t get the most out of this without voice as well, but that’s just a cosmetic extra. You’ll need Viewer 2 at a minimum to make it go.

For those of you who cannot get in-world to the location to try it out right away, or if you’re looking for a taste to know what you’re getting, check out Despres’ video below.

Definitely worth checking out. I shall grab you by the lapels and most vociferously urge you to do so, if you are able.

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Tags: Art, Culture, Data Visualisation, Draxtor Despres, Flickr, Flickr Gettr, IDIALAB, Opinion, Second Life, Social Media, Virtual Environments and Virtual Worlds