About
What is Noticings?
Noticings is a game about learning to look at the world around you.
Cities are wonderful places, and everybody finds different things in them. Some of us like to take pictures of interesting, unusual, or beautiful things we see, but many of use are moving so fast through the urban landscape we don't take in the things around us.
Noticings is a game you play by going a bit slower, and having a look around you. It doesn't require you change your behaviour significantly, or interrupt your routine: you just take photographs of things that you think are interesting, or things you see. You'll get points for just noticing things, and you might get bonuses for interesting coincidences.
What do I need to play Noticings?
You need a camera, and a way of recording where a photo was taken. That might be adding it by hand to the image within Flickr, or it might be a GPS. The ideal device to play Noticings is a camera with GPS built-in, such as the camera on a Smartphone like an iPhone or Android device.
Can you recommend ways of getting my pictures to Flickr?
Sure. If you're using an iPhone, the best app for uploading photos directly to Flickr seems to be Mobile Fotos. We've tried a few, but only Mobile Fotos seems to keep the location information attached to each photo.
You'll also want to enable the automatic import of EXIF data in the Privacy & Permissions bit of Flickr account settings.
Similar applications are available on other phones. If you know of something that works well for you, let us know.
Why are you using Flickr?
Because it's already there, and it does lots of the hard stuff about photographs and location for us. Noticings is just a game that wraps Flickr. We know other photo-sharing services are available, but we're on Flickr, so are our friends, and it really does have the best location API for the sort of thing we want to do.