Some time ago I had what I thought was a great idea. It centred around trying to give a bit more focus to my photography whilst being more creative at the same time.

Without going into all of the boring detail it basically involved taking pictures of a whole variety of typography, signage, lettering etc and then using the captured images to create words, sentences and so on.

As with most of my ideas I never quite got around to trying it for real. Then today I stumbled across this extremely simple, and very clever, app called Spell with flickr which will take any word or sentence of your choosing and create a visual representation using flickr images.

For example:-

The fun part is that, once the initial word has been entered a straightforward URL is produced – e.g. http://metaatem.net/words/james – which can be used to recreate the word many times over using different images.

If you wish, individual letters can even be switched to alternative images bearing the same letter with the simple click of a mouse.

I think it means my idea is now pretty much redundant – must be time for another one.

Found via Ventnor Blog.