What Do I See?

He is overwhelmed,

But so are we.

We are exposed to an insane amount of visual stimulants on a daily basis. In 2010 research showed that 2 billion videos were watched per day on YouTube, 35 hours of video got uploaded to YouTube every minute and the average American watched 186 online videos in a month.  Facebook served as a gateway drug for online videos.  In one month 2 billion videos were watched via Facebook while 20 million videos were uploaded to the site.  Researchers also discovered photographs receive numerous internet hits.  Flickr hosted 5 billion photos in September of 2010.  That means 130 million photos a month, 3000 photos a minute were uploaded to Flickr.  On the other hand, Facebook received 3 billion photo uploads a month translating to 36 billion photos in one year.   

I checked the numbers for 2011 and they are even more astounding.  Last year YouTube dominated 76% of the U.S. video market with 1 trillion videos played while Vimeo picked up 4,189,214 new users.  On average 201 billion videos were watched per month on the world wide web.   The data suggest Instagram may be taking over the internet photo market.  During 2011 Instagram acquired 14 million new users and witnessed 60 photos per second upload to their site.  Other sites served as large photo galleries too. Facebook had received 100 billion photos by mid year, Flickr had 51 million registered users, and 4.5 million photos were uploaded to the site each day.  Also, the Apple iPhone 4 became the most popular camera used by photographers on Flickr. 

(Source: Royal Pingdom)

Through numerous blogs, Facebook posts, and tweets I am inundated with a pleathora of images and video clips daily.  With so many sources of media available I utilize Google Reader, Flipboard, and Pulse News to organize and streamline my exposure to visual media.  I would like to share some of my favorite images/videos from th

Borrowing from Eric Carle's Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do You See? I see...

...Here are some of my visual finds:

A cool zipper pouch from Needles, Pins, and Baking Tins

Jay Z's 99 Problems in Film (Parental Advisory: uncouth language)

Ed Droste's picture of his door rig

The Walker Family photos