TwelveTon » Photography http://twelveton.com a panoply of protean prestidigitation. Wed, 07 Apr 2010 02:43:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc “Hottest First Couple in the History of Ever” http://twelveton.com/2010/03/30/hottest-first-couple-in-the-history-of-ever-%e2%80%93mike-monteiro/ http://twelveton.com/2010/03/30/hottest-first-couple-in-the-history-of-ever-%e2%80%93mike-monteiro/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 04:07:04 +0000 August http://twelveton.com/?p=338 I forget who Mike Monteiro is, or why I follow his twitter feed. But I like him. And I remember John Gruber of Daring Fireball turned me onto him—so I don’t think I’m wrong. But I am often.

We have the hottest first couple in the history of ever. http://flic.kr/p/7JDsym
—Mike Monteiro’s twitter

Check out the wordy disclaimers on flickr. Can’t blame ‘em, I guess.

]]> http://twelveton.com/2010/03/30/hottest-first-couple-in-the-history-of-ever-%e2%80%93mike-monteiro/feed/ 0 Gathering of the Juggalos 2009: Photos from Derek Erdman http://twelveton.com/2009/08/30/gathering-of-the-juggalos-2009-august-6%e2%80%939/ http://twelveton.com/2009/08/30/gathering-of-the-juggalos-2009-august-6%e2%80%939/#comments Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:41:33 +0000 August http://twelveton.com/?p=208 Derek Erdman’s photos from the 2009 Gathering of the Juggalos. (For the uninitiated: More info at Wikipedia, and the official website.) I don’t know whether to laugh… cry… or blow my brains out.

Click here for the photos.

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www.NewYorkCult.com

www.AestheticRealism.org

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetic_Realism

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Night timelapse movie showing successively a Moonbow (=’rainbow’ from Moon light) and a classical rainbow and their motion with time as Moon and Sun change their position in the sky. Video made in Torres del Paine national park, Patagonia, Chile. Time lapse by Stéphane Guisard (www.astrosurf.com/sguisard).

]]> http://twelveton.com/2009/08/10/stars-over-chile/feed/ 0 electricity plants http://twelveton.com/2009/07/16/electricity-plants/ http://twelveton.com/2009/07/16/electricity-plants/#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:50:01 +0000 August http://twelveton.com/2009/07/16/electricity-plants/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1199836/The-amazing-plant-photographs-years-making-filled-electricity.html

]]> http://twelveton.com/2009/07/16/electricity-plants/feed/ 0 2008 in Photographs http://twelveton.com/2008/12/21/2008-in-photographs/ http://twelveton.com/2008/12/21/2008-in-photographs/#comments Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:25:51 +0000 August http://twelveton.com/?p=58 Don’t miss The Big Picture’s “Year 2008 in Photographs” — parts one, two, and three.

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]]> http://twelveton.com/2008/07/13/camera-bisections/feed/ 0 Branislav Kropilak http://twelveton.com/2008/07/09/billboards/ http://twelveton.com/2008/07/09/billboards/#comments Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:22:31 +0000 August http://twelveton.com/?p=7 Disarming photography of Billboards looming, shot from underneath, by Branislav Kropilak.  Reminds me of 2001: A Space Odyssey.  Check out his other collections while you’re at it.  Especially Landings and Garages.  (Thanks, Tommy.)

]]> http://twelveton.com/2008/07/09/billboards/feed/ 1 Leaves on the Ground http://twelveton.com/2008/07/08/annoying-desktop-picture-trends/ http://twelveton.com/2008/07/08/annoying-desktop-picture-trends/#comments Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:37:28 +0000 August http://twelveton.com/?p=6 I’m a frequent visitor of MacDesktops.com, and I’m getting tired of boring, bird’s-eye photos of leaves on the ground.  It’s been done a hundred times over and every single one looks alike—obviously.  The cliché is hardly limited to MacDesktops; every wallpaper posting site has a handful of leaves photos.  Furthermore, didn’t a now-ancient iteration of the Mac OS – System 7.5? – include a desktop picture of leaves on the ground?

A few other annoying trends:
• Close-up photography of flowers
• Unremarkable skies
• Fields of flowers
• Sloppy or pointless nature photos
• Pictures of a window (or windows) in the middle of a bare wall (what’s up with these, anyways?)
• Pictures like this (seriously, what’s the point?)

On second thought…  I confess.  The photos of windows bother me more than the leaves on the ground.  It’s always a plain wall – stone, wood, or what have you – and a window smack dab in the middle.  Sometimes the window is purposefully off-center, I admit, for that extra touch of artiness.  Either way, I’ve seen more than a number of these.  But why?

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