Five Card Flickr

This quasi experimental web site is designed to foster visual thinking. It is based completely, or more loosely... copied, from the Five Card Nancy game devised by comics guru Scott McCloud and the nifty web version at 741.5 Comics.

However, rather than drawing from a hand of randomly chosen panels of the nancy comic, my version draws upon collections of photos. You are dealt five random photos for each draw, and your task is to select one each time to add to a selextion of images, that taken together as a final set of 5 images- tell a story in pictures.

When you are done, you the option to save the story so you can put a link in your resume or send to your Mom (she pay print it out and tape it to the fridge, or she may criticize your creativity, your mileage and mom may vary).

What do they look like? What a fantastic question you ask!

We have a growing collection of mixed bag stories, but for a few samples, see Politics as Usual by Downes.

This code is available at http://code.google.com/p/fivecardflickr/

So what are you waiting for? Take a fling at weaving a tale with pictures only!