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Explore Video Timeline with Flickr Clock

Maybe a flickr easter egg, but you cannot find this site from flickr’s explore, so check out the Flickr Clock. It presents a timeline of flickr videos: It may take a bit long to load as it seems to be hitting the flickr api pretty hard. So find an interval in time, and you can explore someone’s flickr posted video. It’s an interesting interface, the slits expand to play a video: But what is interesting is that if you use the blue buttons on the right or left to navigate in time, the next (or previous) videos will launch and play automatically, so you could just set this up and take a sample of people’s various videos from around the world, from drives in traffic or the train, to sunsets, to quirky sing alongs. I stumbled on a neat time lapse of a highway commute They are rather variable in [...]