photography

Thursday Cheezburger

By lauredhel on 2008-07-24 • ( 3 )

[Runners-up are below the cut. ]

A couple of weeks ago I featured Matt Harding, who put up video on the internet of himself dancing, sometimes alone and sometimes with others (often a huge crowd) around the world. Today, that’s the Astronomy Picture of the Day’s… Read More ›

What the Big Giant Head phenomenon is really about

By lauredhel on 2008-07-21 • ( 9 )

I think I just had an epiphany about the Big Giant Head phenomenon in bad photoshopping of glamour photos of women. The missing ribs and wasp waists are bad enough, but the BGH lollipop-look appears again and again and again…. Read More ›

LOLpology

By tigtog on 2008-07-20 • ( 7 )

I may regret this. I am venting at a bullying hierarchy, not the body of believers. I don’t find religious beliefs persuasive, but see no need to insult believers in general. The Vatican hierarchy is another matter entirely – I… Read More ›

The Papal apology for clerical abuse in Australia

By tigtog on 2008-07-20 • ( 8 )

Kim has some excellent analysis of where it fails to hit the mark over at LP. Two major problems: the setting of the apology (a mass for seminarians and clergy/religious orders only) reflects an inward focus on dealing with abuse… Read More ›

Otterday!

By lauredhel on 2008-07-19 • ( 2 )

This Otterday photo comes from splityarn at flickr. Cap away!

Friday News Links Dump

By tigtog on 2008-07-18

It’s all over the TV news here in Australia this morning, though I can’t find video online, but here’s a picture gallery of the Amazing Shark Rescue Mission, where the marine scientists from the Gold Coast’s Sea World park led… Read More ›

Thursday Cheezburger

By lauredhel on 2008-07-17 • ( 1 )

[This week’s runner-up.]

Women’s bodies – pwned public space

By lauredhel on 2008-07-16 • ( 27 )

So this post by cowardly asshat voyeur Nicu Buculei[1], a 35 year old man from Romania, was on Planet Fedora the other day, and was up for a while before being pulled down. I’m not going to reproduce the image… Read More ›

Sunset by Turner

By tigtog on 2008-07-14 • ( 3 )

This was taken on a sunset whale-watching cruise last Friday evening, off Port Macquarie. It had been overcast all day, but the sky cleared just before we went out except for leaving enough clouds in the west to produce this… Read More ›