Tue 22 Apr 2008
We hope you have noticed the recent addition to the EphBlog sidebar - the pictures are randomly drawn from over 2000 Williams-related photos on Flickr. Clicking through on these pictures will take you not only to some excellent photography, but snippets of life like the following from “stenz”:
Chadbourne on the Williams College campus. My senior year, my friends and I lived on the top floor of the house.
I first kissed my wife here after watching a really awful movie (Event Horizon), which she will never let me live down. I kept a different schedule than my friends (up late and at the art studio and then slept in until lunch), so I was usually gone while crazy things were happening, but I was there in the morning when everyone else was in class. That meant I usually was the one who got in trouble with the cleaning person and forced to clean up things I wasn’t part of - but I figured it was just karmic retribution for other events in the past for which I surely had been a terrible person.
Some notable clean-up events I can recall were after an apple war (someone was nice and left out a bowl of apples, which my suite mates were less nice about [w]hen throwing around the house), another was a jar of spinach dip going into my toilet, a few brooms and such being thrown out windows or awful pictures off of the internet being hidden in various places, and then the big one was after nationals a bunch of drunk xc guys absolutely destroyed my room and finalized it by coating it all with Vaseline Intensive Care Lotion - the room never really recovered from that one.
If you have Williams-related photos you’d like to share, we encourage you to contribute them (tagged with “williamscollege“) to Flickr.
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:26 pm
1) Thanks to Ronit for suggesting and then figuring out this Flickr magic. I, for one, love it. Photos are just another part of the Williams Conversation, so it is great to include them here.
2) Long time readers will recognize that “stenz” is Eric Smith, our long time lead technologist and board member. Whether or not his lovely wife Katie was mocking his movie choice or kissing technique is unclear.
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:40 pm
The college should use some of these fantastic photos to update its woefully inadequate and outdated (TWO pictures of Baxter?) “Williams in Pictures” feature on the college homepage. Especially with more and more internationals applying to colleges they have never visited, Williams should present itself in the best possible light:
http://www.williams.edu/home/WmsPix/
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:49 pm
I liked looking at the Williams student photos when they were more prominently displayed on WSO. This new feature is a great addition.
I once stumbled on an actual on-campus exhibit of student photos from their time “away” and I found it a fascinating way to bring their experiences back to campus (the local school kids probably would have loved the exhibit, too). I think it was a Gargoyle-initiated project. Did that become a tradition? I hope so.
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Should the tag be “williamscollege” one word or “williams college” two words or does it matter? (To get the two word tag in flickr you have to use quote marks while entering the tag.)
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:11 pm
oh and you know that there is a Williams College group on Flickr, don’t you?
http://www.flickr.com/groups/williamscollege/
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:23 pm
@Laura: it looks like photos tagged with “williamscollege” and “williams college” will both show up as part of the same tag, Flickr just gets rid of the space in between… so it shouldn’t matter which you use
I initially set up the widget to grab photos from the pool, but sadly it seems like the pool is less active now than it once was (looks like only a few people have added anything in the last few months)- I thought using the tag would throw it open to a wider universe of photos.
April 22nd, 2008 at 4:34 pm
The study abroad photo show continued for several of the years I was at Williams…at least my sophomore and senior year (I graduated last year). I don’t know if it also was up my frosh or junior year or if it will be up again this year.