What an eerie snapshot I took the night before last – and it fits the topic of week 29 in Sari’s photo Projekt 52:
Snapshot
…i.e. without arrangement…
Isn’t it uncanny how that ghost glides horizontally through the room in the house across the street?
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Alright, it’s not a ghost (duh!), just a long-time exposure (25 seconds) with reflections of street lights and shop windows in a (dark) window while a car was passing by…
Here’s the full image with the window next to it:
Now the organizers of the catholic World Youth Day in Australia just wanted a happy celebration with hundreds of thousands of beautiful young people reveling in their phantasies, and then a father of two abuse victims – one of his two daughters apparently killed herself earlier this year, the other is addicted to alcohol – and brings up these old stories again. Isn’t he ashamed!?
At least that’s what the organizing bishop Anthony Fisher may have thought – seriously, unlike my sentence above:
“Happily, I think most of Australia was enjoying delighting in the beauty and goodness of these young people and the hope – the hope for us doing these sorts of things better in the future – as we saw last night, rather than, than dwelling crankily, as a few people are doing, on old wounds.”
(source: ABC News)
And the Papa-Ratzi apparently doesn’t want to meet with abuse victims, tight schedule and stuff. But even if he’ll meet them privately anyway: The way the catholic authorities are dealing with “these sorts of things” certainly has room for improvements…
» More at ABC News, Daily Telegraph.
At first, I only showed the first image and a little quiz “what do you think is special about this image?” Well, it’s a night photo as can be seen on the second image in original brightness, which has been slightly modified in brightness and contrast (with Corel PhotoPaint’s automatic function):
(click for large versions)
From the right, the moon is glaring into the photo, the elongated dots in the sky are stars which actually moved that far within the 20 seconds of exposure – and that there are brighter parts on which the moon doesn’t shine directly is also caused by the street lights, of course.
The “disturbances” seen in the bright spire in the following detail and the stripes that can best be seen in the bright image above are caused by the (black) mosquito net through which the photo was taken:
Welcome to the latest edition, this time again with pictures decribing the lyrics of a song. (At least for the first one.)
Which song contains lines described by this image?
I hope it is sufficiently recognizable… and fear it might be too easy… so what do you think it is?
If needed, another image and more hints will follow later…
Pierre hat’s natürlich gleich erraten: “Money For Nothing” von den Dire Straits mit den Zeilen
Maybe get a blister on your little finger
Maybe get a blister on your thumb
Weil’s so schnell ging, gleich noch eins:
2. Welcher Liedtitel ist das?
Gelöst von Yjgalla (und etwas später Pierre – gibt ’nen halben Punkt 
): “Stairway To Heaven” von Led Zeppelin
Und noch eins: 3. Welcher Bandname ist das?
Gelöst von Postpunk: Nightwish.
Das war’s, bis nächsten Dienstag, und danke fürs Mitmachen…
Joss Whedon – yes, that Joss Whedon of Buffy and Firefly fame – just released the first of three acts of his low-budget interim project (during the writers’ strike in Hollywood), a supervillain musical called „Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog“ online.
That musical is, of course, meant anything but serious and is poking fun at quite a lot – and that’s not the only reason why you can’t actually compare it to “Once More With Feeling”, the Buffy musical episode – and worth a look at any rate! (Even though you may wonder at the beginning whether it will go on like that the entire time.)
So watch it quickly, for Dr. Horrible is scheduled to disappear again on Sunday night already (and be available for money later on), after act II and III are released on July 17 and 19, respectively.
(via Golem)
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