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A passing resemblance

A passing resemblance Originally uploaded by lightsoutfilms.
I laughed when I saw the original picture, and I laughed when I put the photoshop together. Now I’m laughing as I’m posting it here.

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Black Cowboy with a Pringles Can

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Meanderings

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Fake Tilt Shift

I was a big fan of the tilt shift lens, but having a camera that couldn’t do it left me a little out of the loop. After finding some nice instructions via BoingBoing [http://recedinghairline.co.uk/tutorials/fakemodel/], I fired up CS2, and took a stab at the only picture I could find.

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The Lone Creator of Nerdville and Dorkstown

I’ve come to a very well thought-out conclusion: that there is a real, marked relationship between creativity, boredom and happiness…. The more miserable you are, the more creative output you have (See countless references in history: Poe, Hemmingway, Van Gogh, Pollack.).

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Picture in the Bathroom

This is at the Hotel Max in Seattle, another place I have to write about, by the way. It’s a beautiful, somewhat erotic picture called Pony by Erin Frost.

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Christian Coloring Book from ‘54

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You Guys Are Retarded – The Stencil

Because I’m a cool guy who likes to do sweet art in the streets, I made this fully spec’d graffiti stencil. Cut out the black parts and do as you please.

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My Girlfriend Dresses Me

Tapered, pleated, elastic banded pants on a man perhaps isn’t the best look that one could scrounge up. T-shirts are still choice wear and I’m slowly ridding my wardrobe of tech promotional tees and ill-fitting, faded and holy garments.

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Jack the Ripper: Stories and Other Junk

Needless to say, crimes as brazen and anonymous as this, repleat with taunting letters to the authorities, is bound to inspire investigation, speculation, and speculative art. Like so many others, I’ve been fascinated by the case…. From Hell Taking the title from one of the Ripper’s sign-offs, Alan Moore’s massive, inspired graphic novel pushes forward the theory that it was Dr. William Gull that created the havoc in the Whitechapel area.

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