WTF Mate

This should probably be titled: Inappropriateness . . . but don't try and tell me you aren't laughing.

The End of the World

10,000 Miles

[Heard at the base of Cowles Mountain today]

Husband: "I don't know if I'm going to make it for three miles."
Wife: "Why would you say that? You'll do fine."
Husband: "Yeah, but I've already got about 10,000 miles on the couch."

This was after I had already gone up [hell], sat at the top overlooking the city for a half an hour [purgatory], and was on my way to the parking lot [heaven]. The automatic leg/ass soreness told me my 10,000 miles on the couch was working against me as well.





[view of heaven from purgatory]

Secure as all getout

This is what I would like to call ridiculous (aka the dic awards go to . . .): the ice skating announcers at the winter Olympics. It’s bad enough that the athletes are forced to wear such atrocious spandex, but to top it all off, the announcers are not, in fact, given standard issue muzzles.

These are a few of my favorites so far:

“They are secure as all getout.” Because I forgot we were in da’ hood.

“Who would have though someone so small would have a heart as big as the skating rink?” Not only is this cheesy, but to me, comparing someone’s soul to a oversized block of ice isn’t very encouraging at all.

“They will be penalized severely for that one” (pronounced as in the penal code). This just makes me laugh because, well, words like penal make me giggle because I am just that immature.

And the gold medal of riDICulousness goes to the local San Diego NBC news, comparing themselves and their stellar delivery of breaking news to the Olympic athletes. "We're not much different. It takes time, dedication, hard work, and training to deliver the news you as well as we do. We might even work harder than Michelle Kwan, but the jury's still out on this one . . ." Okay, the last part might have been my own addition.

smellyphant

one of my "favorite" quotes from my internship in mexico during college was from an australian staff member. warning: parental advisory recommended.

"well, if you're sick much longer, just make sure you go to the doctor. you don't want to be vomiting fecal matter."

this is true. i do not.

and you can find more great illustrations from Russell Tate by clicking smellyphant.

flickr

Hi, my name is Katie, and Flickr is consuming my life.

Hi, Katie.

But seriously, it's a great place to get easy tips on anything you could possibly be working on having to do with photography. It's an instant community of like-minded people (not unlike a commune or a cult, but without the nakedness and kool-aid). I would love it if you could customize your page a little more, but I guess it makes it easier to find what you're looking for when everyone is uniform. (not so in life, I know)

One of my favorites is interestingness.

I've been looking at a lot at the lomography site since we were in Pittsburgh, and I found a cool way to replicate a lomo effect on any picture. This is my first stab at it.

gallery

World Press Photo

The galleries have some amazing pictures from photojournalism in 2005.

Marketing Genius

This blog was pointed out to me by Bob, and I would agree: a stroke of genius. There is something to be learned for those coming from my viewpoint with actions of what I consider “ungrace” and often “unJesus”.

Planned Parenthood decided to profit off their adversaries, which is an interesting spin on the typical ways to fundraise (and poke fun at those silly Christians again). Usually we tend to shut out the voices of those pointing our weaknesses, or the things we’re told we need to improve upon, which tends to end in one of these ways. 1) we never improve, or 2) we get worse, or 3) we lose “customers” (business or not), or 4) we become stagnant and unchanging – not good.. Maybe if we took more time to either make light of things (or plainly be creative in life) we’d unleash a contemplative giant that took us to places we’ve never been.

aesthetic-mindset

Congratulations to Ryan for following through with the dream to start up a photoblog! And a good one at that . . . Ryan's good at following through with visions (we'll only to worry when they start to come from burnt picture of Jesus in his toast).

Today was my first chance to "guest post" on anyone's photoblog (which is a bit of irony in and of itself as I don't even really have my own photoblog aside from Flickr (which still rocks because it's free and easy, but with no creative liberty in the design)). Anyway, go there and check it out - there's something about seeing your pictures in a kick ass layout that brings the coolness factor up a few notches.

Making of Animated Super Bowl Ad

I got this from Drawn!, one of my favorite art blogs. It's the making of the United Airlines ad, Dragon, from the same guy who did the closing credits in A Series of Unfortunate Events. Click on the links to watch the making of the stop-motion animation using cut-out paper characters and the actual commercial.

Like, funny ha, ha?

"Really, what's wrong with a little tickling between friends?"

Climbing Companions

There are these people who go up the mountain with us: our climbing companions - coming in and out but staying with us throughout the journey. We're allowed to get a different perspective when we're not alone; able to step outside ourselves and see there is comfort beyond our current conditions. Because as we climb, we realize the terrain, the walking and the resting mean more than what is behind us and suddenly perseverence comes in. Not on our own accord, though stubbornness might continue us on, we miss it alone. Our view of the air around us is confined to our nearsightedness. And so our climbing companions allow us to breathe in the pain, the newness, the unknown, the joy, the hunger, with a renewed sense of life; the life God ordained for us to experience, as though each day an incalcuable treasure was being heaped into our laps. That we would persevere the pain as a chance for solidarity with himself and that we would count the joys as small glimpses of what is to come.

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.