Photographer Jon Shireman soaked flowers in liquid nitrogen and then shattered them for his 2010 photo series“Broken Flowers.”
Photos of Shattered Flowers by Jon Shireman
Distractable Me
Apparently, according to R. Linders, I was “silly” and “distractable” as a first-grader. However, I worry about any 6-year-old who isn’t.
Verizon’s $30 “Upgrade” Fee
The following is a post from a friend that I thought was interesting enough to add to the blog. As I don’t have a category for bad business practices (despite such posts as: Don’t Upgrade Quickbooks, Overdue Casualties of the Recession, Free, Online, Too, Free, Online, Adventures in Small Business Banking, A Representative will be with You Shortly, Network Solutions is Utter Garbage, Guaranteed Value vs. Value Assessments (or MyPanera vs. My Starbucks Rewards), Sears v. NJCEP v. PSE&G v. Sears (again), Goodbye Windows Mobile, etc.), I’ll settle will categorizing this post under Rants. However, consider Verizon added to my Bad Businesses List.
Hello,
I just wanted to share my recent discussion with a Verizon representative over the chat feature. I felt like I was in the land of Orwell’s double speak. My mother-in-law’s phone isn’t working and I needed to replace it. Our free phone every two years option was not used since we don’t use all of the bells and whistles and we like saving the new phone for when we actually needed a phone. So I went to check out my “free” phone and saw an “upgrade fee” of $30 dollars.
Confused with the charge on my free phone I opened a chat window and chatted with the nice Verizon representative. Here is a copy and paste of the conversation:
Do Not Exit. Only Enter.
Warning: Bad Puns Ahead
Read this sign—posted on Washington and 1st, here in Hoboken—and tell me if you see any issues with it. Imagine being a foreigner to the United States who has never seen this sign before. Imagine being someone that doesn’t speak English as a primary language, like so many tourists and visitors to New York. Read more
Tebowski
This is a sketch I created this weekend that I was thinking about submitting to one of those t-shirt contests online. Let me know what you think. If enough people like/comment/share it, perhaps I’ll enter a contest. Otherwise, it was just a fun exercise in drawing and bad punning.
Face Transformer
This site gives you an opportunity to transform your face in a variety of ways (ethnicity, age progression/regression, artistic rendition by great painters, etc.). Below is the gallery of my face created from the site.
The last three photos were an experiment. I used a photo of myself as a child to see how accurate it was on how I would look now, as an adult, and later, as an old man. I also think I’d make a kickass anime character.
An Ode to Hill and Adamson
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Artist Maisie Broadhead originally trained as a jeweller and now produces fine art photographic parodies. Her work is being featured as part of a ground-breaking exhibition at the National Gallery. As part of the exhibition Jack Cole and Maisie Broadhead directed a video to be hung next to the 1844 photographic print by Hill and Adamson that it references. It was Produced by Cap Gun Collective, Edited by James Norris at Whitehouse London and Post and VFX by Carbon FX. It recently aired on Channel 4’s “Random Acts”.