Plotshot.com - Random Plots With Random Shots

Plotshot is a bit of a literary experiment/fun site. What it does is to generate a microfiction story (50 words aprox.), generally quite absurd, that retrieves random pictures from flickr and places those images next to the words in the story, generating a diffuse feeling that makes one think on the ways of language and the nature of signs, or have a good non-theoretical laugh. The stories are made out of a template that states who the hero is, who he meets, what they do together and how they end up. The particulars of the hero and his acquaintance, their activities and their outcome are the parts that change, and also the tags the system uses to search flickr, and the reason why the stories are quite so strange. Interestingly, the site tells its readers what those tags are.

“The shots within the plot are selected by a computer (as is the plot). No suggestion is claimed or should be inferred that any person(s) in the shots relate in any way to the story. For example if the story happens to be about a gay jedi knight and YOU just happen to be in the photo that comes back from Flickr, this does not necessarily mean you are either a) gay or b) a jedi knight (but you could be - that's up to you). This is simply a work of fiction. DON'T take it too seriously!”

Provided they add some more plots, this site is up to become a killer startup as literature and linguistics majors around the world will get endless fun and discussion from the plots here, and also, since it is partly microfiction, and microfiction is presently hot, they are in a good time to get big.

Although it is clear that this site could be pointing to more conceptual and abstract stuff, it should be interesting to read what its author has to say about this project/joke/happening. Will she/he reconsider meta-discourse?