civilized ku # 2197 ~ a great web-based pictures viewing thingy
Sunday, May 13, 2012 at 01:38PM ;)
Margaret Street / DO NOT ENTER ~ Plattsburgh, NY • click to embiggenOne of the picture blogs which I visit almost daily is More Original Refrigerator Art. I do so simply because I like the way he sees things.
He - I knew his name at one time but have since forgotten it (and he doesn't make it easy to find) - is a man of few words but many pictures. So it's not surprising to me that he recently mentioned a thing called Wordless Web - a simple easy-to-use bookmarklet thingy which allows a viewer, with the click of the Wordless Web icon on one's Bookmark bar (just drag and drop it from the Wordless Web link), to eliminate all of the text on a site/blog and display only the pictures to be found thereon (FYI, the text can be restored just by reloading the page).
Here's what the developers of Wordless Web have to say about it:
Wordless Web is a simple browser bookmarklet that removes all text from any website with just one click. So the only thing left for you to see are the site’s pictures.
No text also means no context. You're free to enjoy the images in their purest form, without names, labels, definitions, or purpose. It makes the pictures we see across the web more mysterious and open to interpretation of our own imaginations.
Try Wordless Web on your favorite sites and see how it suddenly transforms your experience.
I like this bookmarklet a lot. Not that I will exclusively view sites/blog with it, but it's great for, as Joe Friday might say, "All we want are the facts, ma'am", or in this case "pictures". Which, like a gallery-based exhibition, allows a viewer the opportunity to get inside a picture makers head without words getting in the way.
Not that words are not helpful when viewing pictures, they most definitely are, but in a gallery exhibition the only words are usually an Artist Statement which comes at the beginning of a gallery viewing experience. After pursing such a statement the pictures can then viewed with a context and perspective offered up by the artist. Of course, that statement is meant as only a guide of sorts, not as a proscriptive directive on how any viewer must view and interpret the pictures on exhibit.
All of that said, and as Mikey stated (and IMO), "Try it. You'll like it."
Reader Comments (2)
FYI ... it's Tyler Monson
I've also been following Tyler's blog for some time and like you, enjoy the way he sees the world.
Haven't yet tried the worldless web thing largely because the sites I view tend to be one or the other (either pictures, or words, but not often both).