So I was thinking that the line between Benny Hinn-style faith healing and Ki-projection no-touch knockouts and such is a very thin line… same ridiculous lie, just expressed in a different market with a different spin. As illustrated by this video I made…
I added some more layers to this painting to try and give it more depth, and a rainbow because I like them. It’s approaching completion, and probably will only need a couple hours more — click it to zoom in.
I’ve put together three new WordPress themes for three resurrected sites. I think they may have a couple errors still (rendering wrong in IE6 on some computers), but I’m pretty happy with all three designs… And while they’re not making me rich in GoogleAds, they do surprisingly well. Click each to jump to the site it represents. None of these are a new project, but they’re all improved.
The page below comes from the highly recommended Days of War, Nights of Love.
You may also remember the xkcd strip on the same meme.
Anyway, along those lines, one of the other things that really struck me about my most recent trip to the zoo, is that a great majority of people would approach an enclosure with their cellphone, snap a photo, and immediately walk away. Their entire experience of the zoo was the act of taking a low resolution photo — no experience of actually observing the animals or living the environment around them seemed to be desired.
I was thinking that what I was watching was the act of “reverse tagging”. That is, rather than tagging a location (as in scribbling your name on something to show you were there), this was the reverse — using a cellphone camera, the location scribbled its signature onto the viewer’s Facebook page to show it had been visited by them. The photos were cheap, blurry, and too small to actually go back and even appreciate the image of the animals, and had no value other than to show the person had been there… although in the absence of the individual in the photo, one could argue it didn’t really even do that.
