Funny English: ‘As Old as Hills’
Even if the English had been rendered correctly, “As old as the hills” would still make no sense as a slogan.
Even if the English had been rendered correctly, “As old as the hills” would still make no sense as a slogan.
The Space Between: New Camera, originally uploaded by Adam Kuban. This is the first “Space Between” photo taken with our new Canon S90. It’s a great little camera.
It’s a question I asked just today on Facebook and was pleased to get an answer within minutes. From the New York Times‘s Christopher Gray in a March 1987 Cityscape story: The Queens Terra-Cotta building, built in 1892 as the first structure solely for offices of the growing concern, was designed by Francis H. Kimball, [...]
You can’t really read it in this photo, but the piece of tape on the backrest says, “Free.” As seen on Fourth Avenue near Union Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
I was looking for some travel toiletries in this drug store in Berkeley, California, on my Pizza Madness 2009 tour when I turned the corner and saw this. It actually startled me at first; I thought it was an actual animal sitting there in the aisle.
The Woman and the Beagle, originally uploaded by antonkawasaki. I don’t know what struck me today, but I ended up starting a Flickr photo group: Dogs on NYC Subway. It’s pretty self-explanatory, but I should note that it also includes any MTA trains (so Metro-North, LIRR, and SIR are fair game) as well as subway [...]
P042909CK-0021, originally uploaded by The Official White House Photostream. From a Flickr commenter: I really appreciate the behind-the-scenes pictures. We hardly ever see photos of the White House staffers who keep things going – the butlers, secretaries, floor-polishers. Work is dignified and everybody who does work has dignity. Publishing these photos means the White House [...]
I must seem like a beginning photography student, taking all these pictures of corrugated sheet metal. What can I say? I like the colors.
I usually don’t include pictures of friends or family in my "365 Photos" series because to do so means I have to make them public. But that proscription means that I have to leave out some great photos that often sum up the day. This one, of my longtime friends Charlie and Jeff, was too [...]