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06 July 2006
Photo Friday 7/7/06! Theme: "I Am Curious Yellow." Post yer pictures here!
For people who use flickr - what if we tag our friday foto pics with a tag so we can also search from there? Like these could be 'friday foto 7-7-06' or 'metachat i am curious yellow' or something...
I wanted to do something abstract for this, or maybe even cartoonish with a bit of photoshop or mixed-media help, but I'm splitting for the weekend at noon and so it's been a crazy week.
So here is some "found art" from my job files at work:
This is the clown photo that I meant to use, but for some reason I can't edit any post that has a photo in it here, so I can't change it in my other post:
All clowns are evil! He was part of a Fourth of July parade. It was all firetrucks and girl scouts and beauty pageant winners waving from convertibles until this Haunted Hayride float showed up. I couldn't take photos fast enough. There were goth girls totally covered from head to toe in blood, and a scary man on stilts, grim reapers, evil clowns, and all kinds of good stuff. The people watching the parade were all wtf when this float showed up...it was hilarious.
I also like the idea of tagging the Photo Friday pics... maybe we can decide on a naming convention and start it next week? Or we can apply it this week if it's decided fast enough.
Thanks, Shane!
Actually the yellow shirt was a little too tight. hahaha.
The girls? Well, they're all friends of my friend (under my right arm) who used to work for a radio station here in NYC. They wanted to hang and the spot we chose that night was a place called Eugene's somewhere nestled in midtown.
Synchronicity. I took this shot of "The Original Bimbo" at the beach arcade last night because this amusement machine was so bizarre. I'm sorry it's not clearer, it's very disappointing. I have no idea what era or culture thought this would be entertaining. You put a quarter in, and the marionette begins to jerk and twist in an agonized seizurelike dance. Music was playing, but it was very low and scratchy and I couldn't hear above the other arcade noises. The figure was once supposed to represent a clown, but he seems to have been re-dressed as a horror movie villian.
And look, I just went searching and found more information about Bimbo, who bizarrely dates from only 1981 and whose music is recorded on 8-track.
Iconomy, when you say you can't edit comments with an image in them, are you remembering the trailing slash in the img tag? <img src="http://blahblah.com/ohoho.jpg" /> ?
Why can't I get this to work? I click on my Flickr image, copy and paste to the link here, and either I get the square with an "x" or "page not found". Once or twice I've been able to join in, but most of the time I'm thwarted. I've even tried uploading my pics to TinyPic-still no go. Is is me? I have Windows XP. Also, I get everyone's pics when I have "images off", but "click to see image" when I have "images on".
Vixen: I have feeling you're trying to link the Flickr page as an image, rather than the image itself. Or else you're copying the image overlay.
Simple (I hope) Instructions:
When in Flickr, go to the page of the image you want. Above the image, there should be a whole bunch of icons. Click on the magnifying glass that says ALL SIZES. Go down to the bottom of that page, where it says "2. Grab the photo's URL:" and copy the URL in the box below (it should end in .jpg; note the difference between the two links in the first line of this comment). Come back to this page, and beneath the comment box, click on the "Image" button. Paste the URL in the box that pops up. Click preview to make sure you can see the image.
If that doesn't work, you can always e-mail me with a convenient time and I can try to hop on IRC or the IM program of your choice and walk you through it in about five minutes.
photo by splunge
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photo by Kronos_to_Earth
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