WTHR wants your state fair pictures
They’re calling for submissions of your pictures of the fair. Wonder if I should reprise my “Mullet Festival” photo essay from last year?
Flickr fussiness
Flickr has been really fussy lately about uploading photos, which is ticking me off quite a bit. I’ve been trying to upload batches of photos, but it won’t take large uploads. So I’ve been reduced to sending them one at a time, and even then it doesn’t always capture the whole image. Grrrr.
Spike Helps Out
Spike helps me build the console table for our entryway. He’s so helpful. He also helped with my taxes, and the paperwork for my house sale. What a great dog.
See the pictures on Flickr.
Imagine a World
B Tal captured this photo at the New England Holocaust Memorial.
Imagine a World
“Ilse, a childhood friend of mine, once found a raspberry in the camp and carried it in her pocket all day to present to me that night on a leaf. Imagine a world in which your entire possession is one raspberry and you give it to your friend” — Gerda Weissman Klein, Holocaust Survivor
See the picture on Flickr.
Moving Photos
Various pictures of moving activities. Photos of May 2006 on Flickr
Pod Arrival
Huckleberry hiding under packing materials
Annabelle hiding under packing materials
pictures of the painting
Lolita Express
I agree with the guy who posted this photo to flickr — not the best name for a kid’s ride.
See the picture on Flickr.
Painting the New House
Flickr Photoset of our painting projects in the new house. I have to finish up the set with the completed “after” shots, but you can get a good idea of how much we got done this past weekend.
My Favorite Flickr Photo Pools
In the Fringe > Alternative category, Flickr has some really funny and interesting photo pools — which anyone and everyone can contribute photos to. Here are some of my favorites, which I subscribe to through the pools’ rss feeds.
Adventures with Monkeys Photo Pool
I contribute a lot of pictures to this pool — people who take their stuffed monkeys on trips and to events and photograph them in front of landmarks.
Atrocious Apostrophe’s Photo Pool
Photos of signs with mis-used apostrophes.
Bad Signs Photo Pool
Photos of signs (often handmade) with misspellings, bad punctuation, poor design, or just bad ideas.
Big Things – Big Kitsch Photo Pool
Pictures of my favorite stuff – giant advertising art and roadside attractions.
Book Oddities Photo Pool
Photos of unusual books or strange covers. I have a fun one I need to add here.
Bullshit! Photo Pool
The premise is that you take a picture, and make up a totally fictional story explaining it.
Doing the Lynndie Photo Pool
Pictures of people shooting the “Lynndie England” Pose
Happy Ham Photo Pool
Those oddly disturbing signs on restaurants or butcher shops or elsewhere, showing whistling octopi or dancing pigs or other animals who are just so thrilled that they are about to get eaten.
It Came with The House Photo Pool
Pictures of stuff that was left behind in peoples houses by previous tenants. I have several things to contribute to this one from my current house, and I know there are going to be some great contributions from the new house.
League of the Empty Chair Photo Pool
Photos of abandoned, discarded or just solitary empty chairs; there’s an element of melancholy and loneliness to this photo pool.
Like a Person Photo Pool
Pictures of animals acting like people
Monkey Pictures Photo Pool
I just love monkeys.
Mr Flickr Photo Pool
Pictures of advertising signs that have a “courtesy title” (like Mr. or Dr.) in the name of the business.
https://www.flickr.com/groups/nosexplease/pool/ No Sex Please Photo Pool
Pictures that look risque, but really aren’t.
Statue Molestors Photo Pool
Pictures of people performing inappropriate actions on public statues and sculptures.
Things on Roofs Photo Pool
Pictures of odd stuff on roofs. I contributed a picture to this pool of a strange sculpture on an apartment rooftop in my neighborhood.
2006 ICAAN Scavenger Hunt
I’m going to write an article about this for IndyScribe, but I thought I’d do a short blog post about it here, first. Yesterday, Stephanie and I and our friends Jen and Lori were on a scavenger hunt team to benefit ICAAN, a local organization that trains helper dogs and at the same time helps troubled youth by having them train dogs.
Among the wacky things we did for charity — Stephanie and I both ate dog biscuits to get 250 points. They were pretty yummy, actually; they came from the Three Dog Bakery.
Here’s a photo of our team… #9: Acting out the “Sharks Vs. Jets” dance scene from West Side Story in front of a local theatre. (200 points)
See all of our pictures from the event in this Flickr photoset.
Our team, “The Escalator Accident” finished pretty respectably out of the 39 teams — in the top ten.