Not a photoshop.

The block on the right is tapered to the front along 3 sides until it ends up being a flat sheet of paperwood. Roughed up grain in the front is there to make it look like it's a different side when it's really the same flat surface by that point.

What gave it away for me was that some of the shadows were created by pencil.

Larger image here: www.flickr.com/photos/35739691@N05/3308876734/sizes/l/

Not bad luck, just bad sense.

My problem with gentrification is that it destroys every last bit of individual culture that the area had. For any mom and pop store that had to close because they could no longer afford the higher property taxes or rent... is a Starbucks that moves in and turns the area into yet another clone of any other previously gentrified location. Every area that has "gentrified" that I once lived in went from being its own area to a personality devoid trendy spot.

Actually that would be... don't feed it after midnight and don't spill water onto it.

prodigalsavant: First appeared in Windows, also... default mode, as Lester said.

Mac is really just a rebadged PC with a higher price tag at this point. Oh, and lots more DRM added.

jared's right. this is a different species being slaughtered.

Burn down the disco
Hang the DJ
Because the music that they constantly play
It says nothing to me about my life...

Salt also has a tendency to remelt and refreeze lower when it gets colder, causing cracks deeper below. There was an electrical fire on my block a few years ago... the salt from over the years sank low enough, refroze and sat on top of electrical wiring providing the mains for the block we were on. Ate away the insulation and cut power to 50ish homes during one of the worst freezes we had in that area. Not fun. It's still a necessary evil... as not salting anything would just do much more damage to everything (not to mention what would happen to people and cars on those surfaces). Not surprisingly, car wash places tend to do really well during the winter when the days break above freezing... offering hot soapy water rinses for the underside of cars as well.

Telephone cable was a dead giveaway, there's no red in a Cat5/6 Ethernet cable...

Unless you're colourblind... 4 pins versus 8. Ethernet cabling tend to be round due to twisted pairing whereas telephone tend to be flat.

10/10. I'm an AV guy, so I would have some real issues if I got any wrong.

"John Farrier
December 29th, 2009 at 11:38 pm

JamesM, I've searched and haven't found duplicates anywhere."

add neatorama dot com to this

2007/03/02/update-on-amazing-folding-chair/

Maybe trying this variation of the url won't get flagged this time. *sigh*

Hrm. My previous post is flagged. Ah well. Just wanted to point out that this is a dupe. Search the site for folding chair or flexible love. Been posted twice before.

I'll miss the Sealions on the pier... used to visit them every time I went to SF... but the smell, oh god, the smell. Spooty said it.

Retch. The smell.

It still was fun to see them, though.

Blast from the past, I guess...

http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/02/update-on-amazing-folding-chair/

http://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/05/the-next-generation-folding-chair/

"SliVe
December 26th, 2009 at 8:58 pm

My question is, how do they set up this rod in front of a live audience?
I mean, this pole can't appear out of nowhere..."

The people being filmed aren't the audience intended for playback... otherwise you wouldn't need so much editing and film reversing. The standing audience is in on it. The 'trick' is for those watching it in a movie house.

That was...utter crap.