More on Flickr

I can't find this in the FAQ over there--is there any way to increase the number of images shown per page in the detailed view of a set? There's a real awe-factor to seeing a whole bunch of images on a page, even if you have to scroll down through them. Unlike scrolling, having to click through pages really does diminish the awe-factor, and blunts the impact of a large set. Whereas scrolling somewhat mimics the continuous movement of the eye in tracing something too huge to be taken in at a glance, clicking from one page to the next mechanically presents you with another page just like the one you left, which can become tedious.

Anyway, I decided "Paperbacks" would be too large a set, so I'm breaking it up. The original set, I renamed Sleaze. The stuff I added for October I moved into its own set, Horror. Of course I'll keep adding to those--especially Horror, all through October. I'll also do one for Hardboiled/Noir. And who knows what else? I don't think I'll break up the Fumetti set--if I had more extensive runs of big series like Zora or Kriminal, sure, separating them out would make sense, but since this is all I got, I think it's fine as is.

In other news, I'm not anti-social, just social-media-challenged. I thought Flickr was just a place for hosting images, and was surprised to get deluged with e-mails about Contacts. Sorry it's taken me so long to respond to those, but I just went through and reciprocated all of them. I have no idea what that means, but I figure it can't hurt, and at least I'm not snubbing anyone, inadvertently or not.

One thing that surprised me as I was hunting through the Flickr forums looking for answers to some questions is that there appears to be a whole Flickr culture (maybe more than one) of people who sound like they just cruise around looking at everything--and some of them have real hard-ons for flagging anything they consider inappropriate. What a bunch of fucking douchebags. It's because of assholes like that, that sites like Flickr have to have Community Guidelines about nudity and such in the first place, so I guess it's no wonder they'd deputize themselves as a volunteer enforcement posse. Jesus, why can't morans like that just fuck off and die in a fire, already?

Anyway, I hope you're digging the Flickr stuff so far. I know a lot of long-time Groovy Agers are fans primarily of the kinds of images I'm posting there, and this is sort of my way of making up to them the fact that I've drifted away at times from posting such material here on the blog.

More to come. Stay tuned, and stay groovy!