Even the most mundane of rooms and situations can be interesting and even beautiful. These days the vast majority of us have some sort of phone or digital device within reach that has the ability to take a photo. Without constructing any sort of fabricated scene, take a photo of where you are at, what you are doing or what you see... RIGHT NOW. Have fun with it.
Here is mine:
Let's see yours
Tagging those that participate in the weekly photo challenge:
Aksalon, thenewgreen, insomniasexx, NotPhil, elizabeth, BlackBird, AlderaanDuran, rezzeJ, b_b, mk, cW, flagamuffin, johnjohnrocks, BlackBird, Hell, dead5, Jeshk0, haymakers9th, demure, T-Dog, eightbitsamurai, BLOB_CASTLE, Complexity, HedonicTreadmiller, Volchek, thundara, cgod, kleinbl00, creepyinfant, white, veen, sounds_sound, ecib, istara, Demosthenes
Woke up too early. I had my disputation talk yesterday (masters in molecular medicine). Do you know that emptiness you feel when you realize that you just finished studying? 5.5 years of lab work, assignments and exams. All no more. The people you met, the fun you had, the weird mornings where you were wondering how the fuck you managed to rip your belt while trying to undress last night? I guess you can call my nostalgic. It is a mix of relief and sadness. I am finished, master of science, with amazing grades. But I am sad, knowing that in a month, my room will be empty, my farewells said and I will be on my way home... Good morning everybody. This is my first post to Hubski, I came from reddit with a white flag in hand :)
True story. I took 22 credits to graduate in time for a $70k position (in 1999!) that was dissolved in a hiring freeze two weeks before my matriculation. Which meant getting general requirements and such out of the way. My last final of my last class was "Intro to Pop Song" a survey music class for non-music majors. The last aspect of that final was questions on Ice T's "Colors." So I walked out the door of the largest lecture hall of the largest PAC-12 (then PAC-10) school with "I am a nightmare walking, psychopath talking / King of my jungle just a gangster stalking" playing in the background. Six months later, I was in charge of a half million dollar audiovisual renovation of said-same giant lecture hall. It made the trades. My first real job as an AV consultant was redesigning the system that played me out as a student. Congratulations. The world is your oyster. One door closes, another opens... and the money flows the other way now, bitch. It's a hell of a feeling.
Good morning Cumol and welcome to Hubski. Congratulations on finishing your masters. While I've never finished a program like that, I've watched my wife go through medical school, residency etc and I myself have worked on big projects and goals too. I recall one year winning a large award that I had been working towards at work for a year. It was extremely competitive and I set daily, weekly and monthly goals in order to be in the "hunt" for the award. After the award ceremony, I took my winnings, my trophy and oversized check and stepped in to the rest room stall and cried like a baby. I had carried this goal with me for so long and now it was gone. The euphoria of winning had lapsed and I was left with a gaping hole in my world. But, I was able to find something new to fill that hole and have been able to do so each time a new large project is completed. Good luck finding your next project. Enjoy the journey!
I see that you also make babies with lots of hair! Beautiful child.
What's around it's neck? It looks like you have him locked down with a master lock from this angle!
I'm the only one of you fuckers that follows instructions Edit: okay I guess insomniasexx took the same kind of photo Edit2 okay fine some others too shut up
Hey! Mine's the view from my couch. I didn't even stand up!
My god that's cool. Do you still have to bounce in real-time in later versions of pro-tools? I know in Logic you could speed it up.
Pro Tools 11 is to Pro Tools what OS X was to Apple. The audio and video engines are entirely new. As such, it finally does off-line bounce. ...just not this build, which is not by design. I'll do some legit beauty shots one of these days soon. The room is rather impressive.
I have that same Neutral Milk Hotel poster!
Did either of you get the chance to see NMH as they've been touring? I caught them in Philadelphia earlier this year. It was an amazing experience. NMH is so great on record, I didn't believe I'd be able to say they're even better live - but they are. They extended their tour and so I'm seeing them again this summer. I can't wait.
Unfortunately no. They'll be in Seattle April 4th, but tickets sold out before I even found out they were on sale. Even their Vancouver and Portland dates are sold out. So it seems pretty unlikely that I'll be able to see them on the West Coast. But I looked ahead on their tour schedule and there's a small chance I could catch them in Toronto at the Toronto Urban Roots Festival. I'll be in Hamilton that weekend and it might be possible for me to go to Toronto for a day. I can only hope.
I opted out of their tour. I saw Jeff Mangum on the same tour that Jeshk0 saw him on. It was the opening night of the tour, his first show in pretty much a decade and I actually wrote about it here. It was such a good experience that no matter how good of a show NMH put on I know I wouldn't be able to compare it to the Mangum concert so I just saved the money. Maybe one day I'll see the full band.
I have a really nice expensive one and a really cheap one. The nice one has padding inside and the strap part that fits to your head has a little turn dial for tightening so it stays on your noggin better. The cheap one has none of that. The adjusting strap for sizing on the cheapie is similar to the perforated plastic strap on a baseball cap. One thing I just learned about hard hats is that there is a standard for colors, coded for each trade. Managers wear white, safety inspectors wear green, and electricians wear (blue?), ect.... Exciting stuff!! Psych. I had a blue one that I spray painted white and I got called out on it because the act of painting it voids the safety warranty. Oops.....
I once worked on a job site with a guy who was sporting a cowboy hardhat. It seemed a bit much to me but he sure liked it.
Cowboy is a term we use to describe general contractors who don't work off the drawings. They just get out there and do what they want with complete disregard for the details. If I saw someone on site with a cowboy hard hat on, I would be very worried....
The most cowboys? Definitely the fiber optic and communications installers. No question :P
You're approx. 30 minutes away from me right now. Bring me an umbrella and tequilla!
A temporary, minimalist and chaotic post-production environment prior to being packed up, shot on a terrible camera phone. (Edit: my blinds work better than insomniasexx 's.
mk - are you a pathologist or path tech? Those look like path slides with H&E stain...
Listening to Dire Straits and getting ready to run
That's a pretty solid turntable you've got there! Which Dire Straits record are you listening to, I can't recognize it from the picture.
There's a small cafeteria in the building with a mediocre buffet. I get a salad there once or twice a week, and have been gradually improving my skills. Here's a cool trick I learned from someone: you can add a lot of flavor by dipping down into the bin of sliced banana peppers and using the juice as a dressing.
Know the feeling. My other options are Dunkin Donuts, Subway, a variety of food trucks, and — a ten minute walk away — a Whole Wallet location with a fantastic buffet.
http://imgur.com/qqSBhaZ My bedroom/practice space is a complete mess.
The evil light is trying to force me out of bed. It's not happening. 
Ever since I was a child I've been a night owl, and had a hell of a time waking up. In fact, mornings are sort of hell on Earth for me. Just wired that way. Anyway, I was in Vegas with my wife on a buying trip for her store last week, and because our flight was delayed we arrived late and the room-type we booked was maxed for capacity so we got an upgrade to a nice corner-suite, with floor to ceiling windows on two walls, overlooking the Vegas Strip and the mountains of Nevada. It was such a nice view that we just slept with the windows bare, and in the morning, the Sun rose sometime before 7am, flooding the room with a warm glow that turned brilliant as 7 approached. HOLY SHIT was it easy to wake up there. All that natural light just did something to my brain...I had to get up earlier there than normal, but I never had to use an alarm (I can find a snooze button from 300 yards in the dark normally). It was the most soothing, gentle, yet irrefutable call to wake I've ever experienced. Sort of bummed that I'm back in my soothing womb-cave.
I once subletted my room to a friend while I did a study abroad and when I came back, she'd painted the room bright orange. She also took the window shades when she moved out, or else I'd forgotten that there weren't any on the windows. Anyway, nothing like crashing after a late bar shift and then several hours later, having to make the decision to leave the room or go blind.
No. Just my apartment. The windows about 12 feet wife and the top half of the wall. I have vertical half blinds in the bedroom and full length ones in the front balcony sliding door.
elizabeth, Aksalon and myself will sporadically post a "weekly" photo challenge. Follow the tag #photochallenge and feel free to participate. Here's a shot of your screen on my screen right now!
Feel free to post them too. Anyone can post using the tag. Some topics seem to gain more traction than others.
Smoking, drinking, interwebbing. Like Cumol, this is my first post and I'm a reddit refugee.
You can check your image before or after posting using an online EXIF viewer.anybody know if imgur publishes image location data
I wondered the same thing a while back and saw something in the help files saying they do strip the EXIF metadata, including location. I can't find it now. The help was updated this month, and I see they changed the policy from deleting images that haven't been viewed for a number of months to keeping images indefinitely.
http://imgur.com/blog/2011/07/22/email-uploads/ (Edit for my stupidity. If you can't get to imgur you can't read that link about uploading via email.) Info from the link: send a mail to upload@imgur.com with the picture attached. They will mail back a link to the picture.
By the way, Complexity, it is entirely due to you that I was able to make my Baltimore post as awesome as I did. So thanks again.
Thank you but I have to admit I just Googled. I feel your Baltimore excellence is all your own. I also approve of your sake bottle. I hope you stole it.
Send you back the image that you sent to them? Or do you mean you send them the link and they send you the image back as an email? This might do it: http://www.labnol.org/internet/receive-web-pages-by-email/18117/