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9,000 photostream views on Flickr


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9000 photostream views on Flickr
Flickr keeps track of how many times your “photostream” (as opposed to individual photos) is viewed. I’ve been heading towards 10K photostream views and was planning on posting a self-congratulatory (but ultimately pointless) note when that happened. Today, though, I happened to see it when it was exactly 9,000 views and just couldn’t resist the opportunity to capture the moment.

Yeah.

After all the winter pictures I’ll leave you with a green, summery image. It was actually taken inside, but Spring is coming. We actually took the bikes out of the basement a week ago Sunday. Then, of course, it snowed that night and the next day and there they sat looking cold and miserable. Arggghhh. Things did improve, though, and Sub-Evil Boy and I biked in both yesterday and today, and it was quite wonderful. Still a bit chilly (esp. with the windchill at bicycle speeds), but we’re moving in the right direction.
Spring is coming, but it's still mostly inside

Gifts of different sorts


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Two gift samplers
These are the two gift samplers mentioned earlier. The one on the left is the one Carole made for Randee, and the one on the right is the one WeatherGirl did for Athena.

While I was there on Saturday with my tripod I took various random pictures, including this shot of one of the two spiffy new hand-painted ceilings that were done by Lisa Johannes as part of the rennovation of the Stevens County Museum.

Chandelier and birds

The discussion of this over on Flickr has been interesting. I was especially struck by a comment from Eryximachos (who has a cool photo stream) that he had initially thought it was done with Photoshop. I hadn’t thought about it that way at all until I read the comment, but immediately saw where he was coming from when I did. I was drawn to the image in part because of the incongruity of the chandelier hanging down from “the sky” with the birds flying around it, which is exactly the kind of thing that Magritte did in paint and Pedro Meyer has done with digital image editing (I highly recommend Meyer’s wonderful Truths and fictions CD-ROM).

And then one could riff on how hip-hop turntabling grew in part from kids thinking that things they were hearing on the radio were being mixed “live” when in fact they had been spliced together in the studio. But not today…

The construction of reality is an amazing thing.