Living Image Arise!

Photo objects are indeed distinct, silent entities, acquiring a voice dependant upon the perceiver. They may hold additional untapped information to contribute to a scene or have completely different stories to tell within another context. What if it were possible to identify all meaningful objects within a photograph then, based upon these entities, contribute additional valuable emotional or informational messages extending upon the dimension of what would otherwise be a static scene. Seemingly mundane imagery would spring to life before many more viewers intensifying their personal connections with it and other content.

This is NOT an automated facial recognition tool like Riya or the Mech Turk...it's an online social collaboration community where through mouse clicks anyone can identify compelling elements within a photo then have those entities, or fragments, reach out and associate with other equally fascinating, socially pertinent photos or informational content. Follow-up material too may be marked up for subsequent association thereby not only enabling the social community to extend upon what they perceive but also empowering them to develop and reveal interconnectedness amongst interesting everyday-life images and informational content.

The unyielding social efforts of building, refining, and dissolving threads amongst media progressively evolve the original static content into a multidimensional “Living Image”. This innovative approach to information development and consumption facilitates the discovery, learning, and relating of the greater detail within an image (i.e. personal photos, entertainment snapshots, headline news). It offers a unique perspective on telling a story by embracing the natural way we perceive information and ask questions about them, and in so doing redefining the playground from WYSIWYG to WYSIWYC, What You See Is What You Connect. Photography gave us “Still Images”, video produced “Motion Pictures”, and now this gives you the “Living Image”.

EXAMPLE:

1. You visit this related site on e.g., Oscar awards night (a U.S. big event) and see an image of actress Nicole Kidman (a snapshot of her walking and smiling on the Red Carpet of the Oscars).

2. Prior to your seeing this image on the site the existing community (of the site) has already identified (and marked up)the existing visual objects of this photo(or you can participate and mark up objects and link info to them too) in the image (including her hair, her dress gown, her bracelets, rings, people in the background, her face, etc).

3. If you move your mouse over any existing object found in this image it will highlight indicating more information can be found by clicking it. Such clickable information can include: similar pictures, or a "Buy Now" link, or textual facts about what it is,etc.