tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post8616100404110425273..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Blank (Don't be late)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-86830032465081270932013-12-11T08:40:09.381-08:002013-12-11T08:40:09.381-08:00In view of this story that seems to be developing ...In view of this story that seems to be developing in new ways every day and claiming our attention, now this useful link from the localuknews.co.uk website. Wild animals do it better. Curtis<br /><br />http://www.livescience.com/41749-best-wild-animal-selfies.htmlUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01453842393788270587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-18542219026457692032013-12-06T06:14:32.316-08:002013-12-06T06:14:32.316-08:00Then again, there's this:
http://video.foxnew...Then again, there's this:<br /><br />http://video.foxnews.com/v/2885792112001/eagle-shoots-selfies-after-stealing-camera/?intcmp=obnetwork<br /><br />CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-57670306548929129752013-12-06T02:37:29.139-08:002013-12-06T02:37:29.139-08:00Curtis,
It may be that we have in common the achi...Curtis,<br /><br />It may be that we have in common the achievement of remaining the last people on the planet who have never made (or does one say "taken"?) a selfie.<br /><br />In fact I've avoided mirrors forever and since the turn of this latest exciting century have had my picture taken exactly once (it happened before I could say no).<br /><br />Well, maybe twice -- figuring one's picture probably gets taken by accident every now and then.<br /><br />What a disappointment for the unwitting shutterbug!!TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-89309554198044391902013-12-06T02:31:37.510-08:002013-12-06T02:31:37.510-08:00Thanks for directing me to this, which I missed. ...Thanks for directing me to this, which I missed. I had read previously about what you might call "disaster tourism" or "atrocity"-selfies, but this seemed to take the cake because the examples I'd seen of those all involved teenagers. I doubt the Post set it up, but who knows? The fact that the Post costs $1 these days is also a great surprise (and I believe they stick a higher price tag on it outside of the city.) What can I say? I don't even like looking in the mirror, so the concept of selfies is utterly foreign to me. And once, when I was working at a law firm housed on a low floor of One Rockefeller Plaza (I think that was the address; it was the old Eastern Airlines building that now houses the Today show in what used to be the Banco de Ponce facility the FALN blew up), an investment banker from Lazard Freres across the street jumped to his death, hitting a car roof one floor below my office. I had never heard such a noise or seen such a sight. I'm fairly sure I carried a small camera with me in my briefcase that day (you never know what you'll see worth photographing in NYC), but it never occurred to me to capture this moment and share it. Back to Samuel F.B. Morse -- What hath God wrought? CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-28750363671216185062013-12-05T21:54:54.893-08:002013-12-05T21:54:54.893-08:00Curtis, Indeed, when in the reckoning of all the s...Curtis, Indeed, when in the reckoning of all the selfies of our days, I don't think it would be possible to top (or should one say "stoop lower than"?) that one.<br /><br />Wondered if you've seen the commentary on it <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/05/dont-hate-woman-worlds-worst-selfie-suicidal-figure-brooklyn-bridge" rel="nofollow">here</a>?TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-20006035127097339422013-12-04T05:57:55.188-08:002013-12-04T05:57:55.188-08:00Here's the latest and greatest (it will be dif...Here's the latest and greatest (it will be difficult to top) in "selfie culture":<br /><br />http://nypost.com/2013/12/04/selfie-ish-woman-snaps-cellphone-shot-with-suicidal-man/<br /><br />CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-91706024822368286412013-11-21T11:39:33.404-08:002013-11-21T11:39:33.404-08:00Ain't life grand when
You can fit it in
The p...Ain't life grand when<br />You can fit it in<br /><br />The palm of your hand.vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-40925460713790869272013-11-21T07:45:27.486-08:002013-11-21T07:45:27.486-08:00They're all around us. They're closing in....They're all around us. They're closing in. Their fingers are flying over their plastic slabs. Everyone is sharing their selfies these days, even Flula.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSvVMGe5xQo" rel="nofollow">Flula: NSA, You may access my privates (8:06 AM)</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-39330862347739241112013-11-21T07:03:41.939-08:002013-11-21T07:03:41.939-08:00Well it is word of the year,isn't it..
"...Well it is word of the year,isn't it..<br /><br />"Selfie"<br />and apparently there are versions of it..Drivingselfie,Belowthewasteselfie etc, Yeah! right..Belowthewasteselfie..<br /><br /><br /> <br />manik sharmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18055072451804840121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-85503040971950377602013-11-21T06:34:08.561-08:002013-11-21T06:34:08.561-08:00Yes. I can accept that this is also "objecti...Yes. I can accept that this is also "objective," but it fills me with pessimism. I wonder whether Samuel F.B. Morse, if he had invented "SnapChat," would have "messaged: "What hath God wrought?" CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-23824987011817740922013-11-21T06:28:25.733-08:002013-11-21T06:28:25.733-08:00All those phones and electronically conveyed ghost...All those phones and electronically conveyed ghost-images... and the loneliness and isolation and detachment husbands-up to the fake-wife of rubbed-raw urban "build-upon-build" (Samuel Beckett). <br /><br />Red ShuttleworthPoet Red Shuttleworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06053848100740944133noreply@blogger.com