Phrasr

Creativity, in all of its forms, is never far away from my mind and I often show Ken Robinson's TED clip to people who 'don't get' what I am so passionate about.A quote from Pablo Picasso I picked up today on Tricia Neal's site “All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

Looking at some of the tools available to get people on the road to creativity I came across another of the Flickr apps that I had seen and neglected and just wondered (yet again) whether this might be the spark that lights someone's fire.

Phrasr works with Flickr. You type in a phrase or sentence and it selects pictures from the Flickr galleries that it has access to and produces a montage (?) to illustrate the text. Is it creative ... well I think it is possibly a good start to getting young people to express themselves in a bi-modal way.

It is FREE and there is no sign up ... you just do it. (There are, of course, safety issues here as once you have published you can see what anyone else has written.)