<aside> 🔴 Summary: Thanks to David Stein & Angelo Tiu at Coding Lab for helping me with .APIs!
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The process of working on this .... was painful. I initially wanted to work with The Noun project .API but came to realised that they required multiple authentications and I did not know how to do that. The idea was to get the icons and maybe?? tell a story using the icons?? and see how they are related?
I dug around and decided to work with Unsplash .API, and with help from David & Angelo, got to this demo below.
Demo 1
Demo 2
Initially, my idea was to find a gallery or photo .API that will generate a range of different photos based on one keyword. I like the idea of how speech recognition can misheard/misinterpret you and produce unexpected results, and how one keyword and trigger a wide range of images. I wanted to tie it to my undergrad thesis, which talked about the multi-faceted baggage attached to the name "Vietnam", but it did not work well with Unsplash since it's a stock photo site, and most photos shown here are pretty commercial and polished, which is not what I wanted... but worth a try. :)