With our mass exodus towards everything in Web 2.0, visual content is also continually reshaping and transforming its presence in the the cloud. Images are not static entities anymore as they are invading the web 2.0 in various interactive , engaging fashions which are also gradually changing the way a story is narrated. The latest development in that domain is a web app called FlickrPoet that leverages Flickr’s large and continuously  growing image database to create various visual montages about a poem or a lyric.

It works in a simple way, you just need to enter a line of a lyric or part of a poem and then click on “Show Story”. Sure enough, cool enough the app will pull out pictures that are tagged according to those words in your lyric and display them, giving you new ideas and new vistas about your favorite lyric in the process.

However, true to its name, you should enter a poem or a lyric (instead of a keyword) in the story box to see the full potential of this app.  Better still, if your famous lyric contains a string of common words.

Following is a visual demonstration of a line from Pink Floyd’s “Lost for Words”.

Pretty unusual.

For the more mundane “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” FlickrPoet returned the following pictorial narrative.

In short, Thomas Strum’s FlickrPoet is a simple web app that transforms the poems and stories into photographs, using the Flickr API. That’s all what it is at the moment.