Mitt Romney's Handsome Face is. . .EEEEEK!!!

Who thought this was a good idea?

Source: Wonkette

Monkey News: Monkey Photography!

Image from source, Guardian UK

You'll never make a monkey outta meeeee! Yes, monkey stories are gonna get noticed by me and particularly Stupid Monkey Planet, who sent me the link for this one. It's gonna be a race between computers and monkeys to take over the planet, isn't it?

[Excerpt]

Shutter-happy monkey turns photographer

As the infinite monkey theorem has it, a monkey hitting random keys on a typewriter will eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare. Now it seems that a monkey clicking away with a digital camera will eventually produce portraits of startling beauty. . .

Read more at: Guardian UK

Featured Site: Back to the Future

Brilliant! Best idea since Born This Way (the site, not the Lady Ga-Ga song, though I like that too!).

The setup is, a photographer took "classic" photos of people from years gone by, and then posed shots as closely as she could from today, and put them together. Some of these are amazingly well done. The photographer, Irena Werning, should consider opening up her site to submissions. I know it would sort of be "competition," but I think it'd be a big hit.
Visit: Back to the Future

Found at: OMG!! Blog (which I won't link to since it can be naughty, but you're free to look it up!

Photo of the Day: Statue of Liberty Struck by Lightning

How cool is this, and how exactly do you capture an image like this?  Find out here: metro.co.uk

Found at: AmericaBlog


Editor's Note:

"Lightning" is one of those words my touch-typist fingers has a lot of trouble with! I tried TWICE to type the headline, and still had to come back and correct it! Lighning, lighnting. . .

Photo of the Day W: Worst Administration Ever

Source: Democratic Underground

One Year in 40 Seconds

OK, this is cool. . .

One Year in 40 Seconds by Eirik Solheim

Amazing Shots of Lighting over Washington DC

I'm not religious (to say the very least), but doesn't this look like somebody's retribution for all the nefarious deeds done in Washington, DC? The shot was taken by one of my favorite bloggers, and inspirations for this site, John Aravosis. Great shot, John!

And there are several more. Check them out at: AmericaBlog

UPDATE: For a dose of unintentional humor, go over to my archives, and click June 2008. The post that appears immediately after this one completes the joke!

Fast Food: Advertising vs. Reality

Even before HDTV, fast food advertising had a way of picturing their food offerings in luscious, vibrant realistic color. Tomatoes are brilliant red, with glistening dewdrops. Buns are perfect and fluffy. Everything about it is geared to make you drool.

But what happens when you open the wrapper on that exciting new sandwich? If it's Whopper from Burger King or anything from Arby's, the sandwich looks flat, drippy, messy, and often falls apart as you eat it.

I found this web site completely by accident, but marveled at the photos. It's downright hilarious the difference between a professional photo of a sandwich and the actual shot of what was purchased. Here's one example:




Doesn't the one on the right just look yummy?

Check out the other photos, they're a lot of fun. And I think Subway, and surprisingly, McDonald's Filet O' Fish fare the best.

The WVSR

Photo of the Week: Navy Barracks "Swastika"

Photo from source, LATimes.com

I thought the house on the freeway the other day took the cake for strange photo of the week. Nope! This is a shot of a Navy barracks, built in the late 1960s. How is it possible that this wasn't noticed in the original blueprints? Amazing.

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Navy to mask Coronado's swastika-shaped barracks

CORONADO, Calif., -- The U.S. Navy has decided to spend as much as $600,000 for landscaping and architectural modifications to obscure the fact that one its building complexes looks like a swastika from the air.

The four L-shaped buildings, constructed in the late 1960s, are part of the amphibious base at Coronado and serve as barracks for Seabees.

From the ground and from inside nearby buildings, the controversial shape cannot be seen. Nor are there any civilian or military landing patterns that provide such a view to airline passengers.

But once people began looking at satellite images from Google Earth, they started commenting about on blogs and websites about how much the buildings resembled the symbol used by the Nazis.

Read the rest at: LATimes.com

Photosynthesis: Amazing Photos from Neal Preston

Photograph from source, Spinner.com
If you like photography (especially good photography) and rock music (of the iconic sort), you really need to take a look at this photo essay. All shot by the same photographer, Neal Preston. This is really some amazing and historic work. I'm only posting a snippet of one picture (which I'm pretty sure is legal--the whole picture is much better).



Take a look: Spinner.com