Oregon wins the meme
I am assured this is real:
The site has newspaper front pages from around the world, but none top this.
Also, the Obama campaign has uploaded a Flickr set of behind-the-scenes election night photos. It's widely suspected this is why Flickr fell over for a while yesterday - certainly the view count isn't increasing, suggesting it's all very, very cached.
Friday sentence meme
I've been tagged by Martin.
- Pick up the nearest book.
- Open to page 123
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the next three sentences.
- Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged you.
The nearest book right now is Photography in Print, and p123 is an excerpt from Charles Baudelaire's "The Salon of 1859". The sentences are ambiguous, but I think this is reasonable:
In matters of painting and sculpture, the present-day Credo of the sophisticated, above all in France (and I do not think that anyone at all would date to state the contrary), is this: "I believe in Nature, and I believe only in Nature (there are good reasons for that). I believe that Art is, and cannot be other than, the exact reproduction of Nature (a timid and dissident sect would wish to exclude the more repellent objects of nature, such as skeletons or chamber-pots). Thus an industry that could give us a result identical to Nature would be the absolute of art". A revengeful God has given ear to the prayers of this multitude. Daguerre was his Messiah.
Insufferable man.
Tagging (only if they're interested, of course): Lil, Paul, Abi, Skuds...um.
I am Bert
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You Are Bert |
 Extremely serious and a little eccentric, people find you loveable - even if you don't love them! You are usually feeling: Logical - you rarely let your emotions rule you You are famous for: Being smart, a total neat freak, and maybe just a little evil How you life your life: With passion, even if your odd passions (like bottle caps and pigeons) are baffling to others |
Just a little evil? I think they're forgetting that Bert and Osama are like that. Via Jo.
Hello!
Hey, thanks for coming! I'm Andrew, and this is where my headthinks come to breed. They often meander around humanism and photography, but they're flighty and you can't trust them, so anything is possible.
Do feel free to email me - I get lonely:
Your hair looks swish, by the way - have you done something new?
Recent Comments
- vicky: going up this weekend having done all the welsh peaks except 4 snowdon, cant wait
on Climbing Snowdon. - vicky: what, how can u live in the 21 c and say that, probably a sexist thing
on Climbing Snowdon. - vicky: da iawn laura, cant believe what im hearing, all this fuss, anyway love the site, and i agree, normal people who swear and curse clomb mountains cos we live in the...
on Climbing Snowdon. - Andrew: Did a few quick test shots to check the light levels, then balanced the camera on the arm of a bench, set it for a 20s exposure and hoped for the best
on ISS. - lynsey: Wow, how did you take that photograph?
on ISS.
