In the 2011 image series, If I Could Use Photoshop in Real Life…, Sad and Useless has humorously imagined how Photoshop could have some handy real world applications. Check out all the images at their site.
Puppy Center
This is an abandoned vet clinic for years and this sign is all that is left of it. The neighborhood itself shows signs of early gentrification.
April 29, 2012
Oak Park, Sacramento, California
4 Fence Graffiti
He/She couldn’t have written four different tags. They had to write the same tag four times over.
April 29, 2012
Oak Park, California
Lilli’s Bridal Shoppe
March 10, 2012
South Sacramento, California
FancyPants
April 21, 2012
Downtown Sacramento, California
Money, Loans & Diamonds
March 10, 2012
South Sacramento, California
Purple Light
This was located in the older neighborhood of Oak Park. The entire building is hand painted brick by brick
April 29, 2012
Oak Park, California
Currently Listening To: Santigold’s New Joint (Taken with instagram)
I’m in Ikea Love
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Seems like IKEA are really shaking things up this year. In addition to the previously announced TV set, they’re also going to release a digital camera made of cardboard called Knäppa (“Snap”). It’ll hold 40 photographs at a time and plugs directly into your USB port. While it’s not the prettiest camera the world has ever seen, I do love the idea of a screen-less digital camera that brings people back to the wait-and-see days of film.
House of Cheer
March 10, 2012
South Sacramento, California
Rose Garden
Sunday Night
This is what is happening right now. My first Sunday in months where I have absolutely nothing to do, and I will make sure that is what is going to happen.
What are you going right now?
Skin is wearing thin on HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ - The Washington Post
Yet there is something wearying and numbing about the series’ relentless oogling of the female form. It’s a constant reminder and reinforcement of the fact that pop-culture creators make content mainly for heterosexual men and then, maybe, for everyone else.
How do my feminist friends feel about this? I try and open my mind to other perspectives but this article is just fucking whiney. I don’t think it’s fair to natter at HBO about nudity that was there in the books, and I don’t think it’s fair to police what people put in the books they write either.Plus I really don’t think it’s a general consensus that the nudity and sex is distracting. I think you need to pay attention to everything going on in every scene of GOT just to fucking keep up and if you’re sitting their tallying up how many heterosexual sex acts are being presented in a 30 second time span, I can guarantee you’re missing important details.
Netflix Earnings Report: Bad News
Netflix fears that just distributing digital content is a mug’s game. Anyone can move bits around, which means that the price for doing so will just keep dropping. So it’s trying to create its own original content. But, so far at least, it’s not very good at doing so. “Lilyhammer,” a mobster show that Netflix introduced in January, has gotten killed by reviewers; I gave up on the first episode after fifteen minutes of mediocre acting and clumsy dialogue. Early next year, Netflix will release a new season of “Arrested Development,” which will surely be better. But the company is in an odd spot, facing the same competition problem it avoided when it spun off Roku. If its shows are bad, it’s embarrassing. If they’re good, they could irritate partners. Netflix needs content from AMC, for example. But will those negotiations get harder once Netflix is creating its own shows to compete with “Breaking Bad” and “Mad Men”?
Can Netflix pull through, or will it just continue to decline until it, and all its data, gets gobbled by Amazon? Out of a sense of loyalty to red envelopes—and to elegant algorithms—I hope the company figures out how to thrive again. But it won’t be easy for Netflix to find a way to fend off its new competitors while keeping its old partners happy. Perhaps Reed Hastings should offer another million-dollar prize … to someone who can figure out a new business model.