Flickr

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Flickr
ReleaseThing a Week Two
Length2:48
Release date12-22-2005
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"Flickr" is a song on Jonathan Coulton's fifth album, Thing a Week Two. It makes full use of the Creative Commons license that Jonathan uses to release all of his music.

History

"Flickr" was released as the fourteenth Thing a Week, on December 22nd, 2005. It was written for a video comprising of the song playing over a slideshow of photos. All the photos were published on Flickr with Creative Commons licenses that allowed Jonathan to use them in this (also Creative Commons licensed) work without obtaining special permission.

Live performance

"Flickr" is occasionally played at Jonathan Coulton concerts. Jonathan will usually play it any location than can support playing the video on a large screen.

Trivia

See the Lyrics page for links to (almost) all of the pictures used in the video.

Availability

Downloads

"Flickr" is currently only available for purchase in the Jonathan Coulton MP3 Store as an individual track or as part of Thing a Week II. Of course this song is also included as part of the "Everything" playlist.

Downloadable FLAC versions of the above are available in the Jonathan Coulton FLAC Store.

CD

"Thing a Week II" is available for purchase as a CD here.

Official Video


Downloadable from here

Themes

Thing-a-Week Two
1. Flickr · 2. Resolutions · 3. You Could Be Her · 4. I Will · 5. Dance, Soterios Johnson, Dance · 6. So Far So Good · 7. Curl · 8. Chiron Beta Prime · 9. Take Care of Me · 10. A Talk with George · 11. Don't Talk to Strangers · 12. Stroller Town · 13. Re: Your Brains