In the multimedia show / lecture series ‘Het einde van Nederland in 12 stappen’ van ‘Rob en de rebellen’, Lotte Meijer had a talk about someone committing suicide because he didn’t receive enough smiles. Rob and Lotte asked everyone to smile more, also at strangers. That really moved me. I generally do smile a lot, also at strangers, and then I see them lighting up. I remembered an old poem I read – the one you see next to the picture, and came up with the idea of making a script that would fetch a random smile from Flickr. The original idea was to make a mailinglist that would send out a fresh smile each morning. This way you would be reminded to smile today and spread some positive vibrations throughout the world. If there is a demand for it, I will implement that feature. But for now there is this page.

While implementing the script I thought other nice things could be done with the same principle so I made this page. Feeding it with the tags ‘love, hate, war, peace’ sometimes gives really amazing results – esthetically and philosophically. I was amazed, how randomness can produce such nice results, sometimes I saved some of the best ones I encountered, maybe I’ll link to them later on.

I’m always open for comments and suggestions