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December 27, 2009

A guided tour in Yuri Arcurs' studio at Aarhus (Denmark). See how he works and organize his sets and get a unique look behind the scenes at one of the most successful and productive stock photography studios. (Watch in HD).

His other YouTube tutorials can be found on his blog. His current portfolio includes 26,047 files. He sells about 2,000 licenses a day.

(From Francis Vachon, who asks: You want to make a living shooting for microstock? Well, you are competing against guys like this. Are you up for the challenge?)

December 27, 2009 in Photography | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

In adult news, KY Brand has introduced their latest lubricant jelly— a “Cayenne Pepper” line —that has reportedly added “excruciating hotness” to the bedroom

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Also, "In one of the largest mass demonstrations in recent history, over one million women claiming to have had sexual liaisons with Tiger Woods marched on Washington today"

December 27, 2009 in Jokes | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack

"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now?"

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Bill Bradford’s wife passed away in June, and this is her purse collection

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Religious Artifacts Products for Churches

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Ukranian-English Beer Parlour Songs, and other drug-related LP covers

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Last meal delivery service provides clients with a replica of a the ‘last meal’ consumed by someone executed in The United States - $ 20

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She got blame, from ‘Overheard in New York”: Mommy, why is it cold out?

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Sorry the "Dogtivity" set will no longer be on display, so as not to “offend anyone”...

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Steve Martin rants at a car rental clerk in ‘Planes, Trains and Automobiles’ (NSFW but oh-so-true)

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A little library by Todd Pattison

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A Tauntaun Costume

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How to create a baconmat

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This portrait of Beethoven at the age of 13 is the earliest authenticated depiction of the composer

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Santa school, right here in Riverside, CA

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My favorite photograph (so far) of myself & Adora from my other, new blog, “Adorable”

December 27, 2009 in Food - Meat & Vegetables | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

December 24, 2009

Christmas Links

The Gingerbread White House

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The Chemical Brothers’ “Response”, set to visuals from “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” finale

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The Once & Future Queens – Older women posing as glamorous movie stars

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Teapot-blowing contest

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(Wow, I never knew that Cliff Richard is gay...)

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Doilies on Google Image

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What not to submit - The submission guidelines for Strange Horizons, an online speculative fiction magazine

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99 Most Beautiful Names of Allah

December 24, 2009 in Americana - Barack Obama | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack

December 21, 2009

Netscapes: Tracing the Journey of a Single Bit

The Internet surrounds us like air, saturating our offices and our homes. But it’s not confined to the ether. You can touch it. You can map it. And you can photograph it. Here are five postcards from the journey of a single bit, as data flashes from sea to wired sea

December 21, 2009 in Information | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack

December 19, 2009

Learn How To Play The Piano – 40 YouTube lessons

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New York Subway Train Filled With Apples Is Emptied Onto Platform, Illustrates Food Waste

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“Good Night”, the very first Simpson short that appeared on television, The Tracey Ullman Show, April 19, 1987

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I didn’t kill myself

when things went wrong

I didn’t turn

to drugs or teaching

I tried to sleep

but when I couldn’t sleep

I learned to write

what might be read

on nights like this

by one like me...

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Billboard advertising for ‘American Psycho’

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Thanksgiving Timelapse (2009) by Jared Foster

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I had no idea so many people make a hobby of traveling beneath the sea in homemade junkers they call submarines. Here's a few of these DIY subs...

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Another Pi pie

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(Yes, I'm not here usually. I blog now at Grow-a-baby instead)

December 19, 2009 in First Ever | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack

"An old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey" (Re-post from December 7, 2007)

hey Charley I'm pregnant
and living on 9-th street
right above a dirty bookstore
off Euclid avenue
and I stopped taking dope
and I quit drinking whiskey
and my old man plays the trombone
and works out at the track.

and he says that he loves me
even though its not his baby
and he says that he'll raise him up
like he would his own son
and he gave me a ring
that was worn by his mother
and he takes me out dancin
every saturday nite.

and hey Charley I think about you
everytime I pass a fillin' station
on account of all the grease
you used to wear in your hair
and I still have that record
of little anthony & the imperials
but someone stole my record player
how do you like that?

hey Charley I almost went crazy
after mario got busted
so I went back to omaha to
live with my folks
but everyone I used to know
was either dead or in prison
so I came back in minneapolis
this time I think I'm gonna stay.

hey Charley I think I'm happy
for the first time since my accident
and I wish I had all the money
that we used to spend on dope
I'd buy me a used car lot
and I wouldn't sell any of em
I'd just drive a different car
every day dependin on how
I feel.

hey Charley
for chrissakes
do you want to know
the truth of it?
I don't have a husband
he don't play the trombone
and I need to borrow money
to pay this lawyer
and Charley, hey
I'll be eligible for parole

come valentine day

December 19, 2009 in Music - Tom Waits_ | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack

December 13, 2009

Izzy the Iguana

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Hot Bikini Girls do The Big Lebowski, played by the able actresses of 'Bikini Cinema' ensemble

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Despair

and other down & out scenes

by “DC Vision”.

Also, Prostitutes at work on on Google Street View

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Paris 1962. Images from Paris cafés and nightlife in 1962, the same week Yves St. Laurent's runway show vaulted Dior to new heights. Many scenes around Les Halles

By Tom Palumbo

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Fish Eye Picasso

And many more photographs of Picasso by David Douglas Duncan

(From “Uncertain Times”)

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“Do you want a smacked bottom now or the other thing when we get home?”

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“Patience Please” with Keith Richards, by Ethan Russell, 1972

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Obama quilts by Riché Richardson

and by other artists

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Correction: An obituary on Tuesday about Richard Wright, a founding member of the rock group Pink Floyd, referred incorrectly to a school he attended. The school, the Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School, is an independent day school founded by the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, a guild; it is not a school for haberdashers.

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Unbelievable Satellite Images!

Recent images of Bondi Beach show a massive school of unidentified sharks cruising just meters from swimmers

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Does dog taste like dogs smell?

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Six To Eight Black Men – Christmas tradition in Holland, by David Sedaris

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Drive-bys at Rajneeshpuram, the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh's farm in Oregon

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A collection of oil cans on flickr

4,000,000,000’th photo on flickr