February 2010
“The News category was brimming with images from Iceland’s first ever riots, in...”
– A Climate for Change for Icelandic Press Photography
This sentence, in this article by Max Houghton, is simply remarkable. Perhaps I can’t expect Houghton to know that the 2009 riots in Iceland were, although highly unusual, not without precedent. Still, since I sometimes do a bit of fact...
MySpace lunge
The action of hastily trying to stop the music some websites, as
typified by MySpace, start playing at you when they’re opened.
Man, I did a MySpace lunge when I looked at your new site. Why
did you have to make it a music-playing Flash piece of crap?
That’s from more than a year ago. I should make up more shit to put on Urban Dictionary.
“If you’ve figured out how to divorce photographic craft and...”
– The Online Photographer: Ctein: ‘I Quit’
This column by Ctein and his replies in the comments section are so full of win.
“Q: What if you see a wonderful photograph that you need film for? A: On the very...”
– The Online Photographer: Ctein: ‘I Quit’
I’ve been saying similar things as this but I’ve never taken it as far as Ctein does there. And he’s right. I should take this to heart. It’s not about digital or film. In my case it’s why I ponder stuffing a...
Teabaggers Finally Google 'Teabag' →
asav:
savagemike:
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) - One week after their first national convention, the self-styled Teabaggers are facing an identity crisis after one of their members finally Googled the slang term “teabag.”
“I was wondering why every time I told people I was a Teabagger they kind of started giggling in an embarrassed way,” said Tracy Klugian, a Teabagger from Elyria, Ohio....
“We are so trained to look at a picture of a subject, but that is not the...”
– Philip Perkis (via weakmassive)
“Consumers loudly campaigned for another Barbie® career. The winner of the...”
– Nice, the next Barbie is going to be Computer Engineer Barbie. (via jimray)
She gonna get raped.
(Sorry.)