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Bulk to Flickr

As a part of my multivalent photo-storage disaster, I am finally exporting from iPhoto to Flickr. The flickrexport iPhoto plugin works OK, but I need to export about 150 albums to Flickr as sets with the same names as the albums. Flickrexport allows one to export more than one album at a time, but it does not automatically create the sets on an album-by-album basis.

I suppose the workaround here involves tagging the pics pre-export, uploading the whole schmeer, and then selecting by tags in the organizr to create the sets. That’s not quite as big a PITA as uploading the albums as sets one at a time, but it creates a problem in that the work of assigning the tagged pics to sets is time-consuming and subject to interruption and abandonment.

Hm.

UPDATE:

PF sez “try flickruploader.”

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Eat the Document preview at Siffblog

Over on Siffblog, E. Steven Fried notes that the EMP will be showing D. A. Pennebaker’s Eat the Document shortly.

I saw the post title and subject and mistakenly took it for a review of No Direction Home; I had been mulling a review of the film myself but think I said I what I had to say, more about the subject than the film, last week as the film aired. Any film by Scorsese is going to offer some critical fodder that relates specifically to Scorsese’s themes and work; in this case, I think the theme is Scorsese’s greatest theme, that of self-invention. I recall realizing with disappointment that the director was not going to tie Dylan’s youthful interest in Civel War-era New York City to his own.

(God! I must be asleep at the wheel! In my correction I misidentified the venue for the film as the NWFF!)

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Reinvention

I’m gonna be busy Monday and Tuesday night, looks like.

This is old damn news, but dylanchords is not just a useful resource for finding chords to songs that Dylan has performed; looking though the site, I found chords for many traditional songs that I have long been familiar with but not seen in this familiar format.

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I see

TidBITS takes a look at ShowMacster, an add-on for iChat that allows you to add inline video and photos to the outbound video stream, so your conversation partner can see slides or clips directly in the cintext of the iChat videoconference window.

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Chopper

On September 2, Rocketboom posted 10 minutes of semi-raw footage from a helicopter flying over the deeply-flooded neighborhoods of New Orleans. The footage includes radio chatter, and the longest segment captures a military Huey picking up a group of survivors from a rooftop. The pilots of the various helicopters struggle to establish radio contact and when people on the roofs are spotted find themselves relaying GPS coordinates to ground control in Baton Rouge.