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  • CAMP*



    CAMP*
    Originally uploaded by Daniel Greene

    I saw some photos of light painting on Flickr and figured out how to do it from reading the descriptions and EXIF data. So, when we were camping on a dark night last weekend, I got out the flashlight, set the camera on the picnic table for a 30-second exposure with a 10-second delay, ran into place, and wrote CAMP in the air (pointing the flashlight straight forward). I stopped at the end near the Coleman lantern hung on a tree branch and smiled, thus placing my face right in the curve of the P.

    This photo was the 244th most popular photo of Flickr on May 11, 2009.

  • Singing “Lucky To Be Me”

    Sums up how I feel about meeting my life partner, Andy, almost five years before the day I recorded this. From the Broadway musical On The Town, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Betty Comden & Adolph Green.

    I posted this almost a year ago on our family blog via Flickr (no closed-captions), and at the time, I was critical of my own performance. Now, I just enjoy it. I hope you do, too.

  • Google Video & YouTube Support Closed-Captioning

    I created this video on October 3, 2006, and at the time, I was one of the first handful of people in the world to publish a video using Google Video’s new closed-captioning implementation. I just found out that YouTube now supports the same method (which makes sense, since they were bought by Google a couple of years ago). Apparently, though, YouTube has been supporting this closed-captioning method since Fall 2008. Who knew? Anyway, since this method of closed-captioning is now supported here, I’m uploading my old Google Video movie with its accompanying closed-caption file so people can view it via the more popular and extensible YouTube.

  • Singing “I Concentrate on You”

    This is me singing Cole Porter’s song “I Concentrate on You.” I used YouTube’s “Captions and Subtitles” feature to upload a subtitle file. I hand-coded the subtitle file in BBEdit using the subtitle (.sub) format. To view the video with captions, click the up-arrow button on the bottom-right corner of the screen and choose CC, English: English captions.

  • How to get your Flickr photos to show up in your Facebook profile

    [Updated 2/13/12 with current directions.]

    So many of my Facebook / Flickr friends ask me this question, I’m going to blog the answer for the good of whoever wants to know. It’s easy, actually; Flickr will link to your Facebook account and automatically post your latest uploads to your FB profile.

    Just go to your Flick Account Settings and click on the Sharing & Extending tab. See at the bottom of the page? Where you see “Share Flickr photos to other sites,” click “edit” to the right of “Facebook.” If you haven’t connected Flickr to Facebook, click the Connect button. Check “Automatically share your public Flickr uploads anywhere your Facebook updates are shown.” After editing, Facebook should show “Activity Updates: ON.” Link your accounts to share your Flickr updates on Facebook.” When you upload new photos to Flickr, they will automatically be posted to your Facebook profile.

    So, there you have it. That’s how to link your Flickr account to your Facebook account and have your Flickr photos show up in your Facebook profile.