Places, as people remember them.

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What Fireflies is

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Photo markers at ordinary places. Each one holds a story about that exact spot, told by someone who was there.

The places we walk past every day hold what people remember. Fireflies keeps those stories where they happened.

How it works

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Point your phone’s camera at a marker, and the story of that spot opens in the voice of someone who was there.

Placeholder video Title cards stand in for footage we haven’t filmed yet; the phone screen is the real test story.

What a marker looks like

  • Placeholder: a plain blue-grey square standing in for a photo of a bus stop.
  • Placeholder: a plain green-grey square standing in for a photo of a basketball court.
  • Placeholder: a plain grey-violet square standing in for a photo of a laundromat.
  • Placeholder: a plain stone-grey square standing in for a photo of library steps.
  • Placeholder: a plain blue-green square standing in for a photo of a corner store.
  • Placeholder: a grey square with the outline of a marker, standing in for a photo of a real marker on a wall.