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Archive for the ‘Photo’ Category

February 6th, 2008

How’s Your Body Image and Self Esteem?

Ever wonder how complete strangers see you?
Want to find out ?
Then head over to Breaking the Mirror, a blog about eating disorders. Inspired by the reality television show ‘How to Look Good Naked’, they are looking for ‘24 guys and gals who want to love their bodies’.
What they want is for people to send in […]

By Liz -- 0 comments

January 30th, 2008

Flickr houses Historic Medical Photographs.

I found this interesting post over at Medgadget…
“The National Museum of Health and Medicine has been uploading pictures to Flickr since September 2006. We’ve transcribed, of course, all information that we have for each picture, but have also been posting some for which we have relatively little information, such as Library of Congress is doing, […]

By Liz -- 1 comment

December 24th, 2007

Blue Man Exposed

Next time you’re feeling a little blue, spare a thought for a man who has been really ‘blue’ for over a decade.
Yeah, I know what you’re thinking - it’s a gimmick and the guy really just wants to join the Blue Man Group. But no, it’s the real deal with a simple explanation.
Plagued by a […]

By Liz -- 10 comments

June 21st, 2007

Timeline: Family Snaps Photo at the Same Time Every Year Since 1976

Since 1976, every year on June 17th the Diego family has photographed themselves. the result is a voyeuristic look into one of the most personal and universal aspects of all of our lives: aging. This small image is 1983-1986. See the whole thing here: Diego Goldberg – The Arrow of Time.
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By Wade Meredith -- 4 comments

June 6th, 2007

WYSIWYG (Except not really, like, at all.)

What you see is what you get. Ah, yes the time honored non-spoken contract between consumer and business establishment. Well, maybe not quite as honored as we’d like to think. In fact, fast food joints have been doing the ol’ bait-and-switch bit on you for years, but you don’t care, do you?
A cry escapes […]

By Wade Meredith -- 3 comments

June 5th, 2007

Cute-Kitty Palate Cleanser

For those of you who just waded through some of the filth in that last post: a cute-kitty palate cleanser.
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May 30th, 2007

The Bike that Will Never Be Stolen

Photo: random dude
This bike is going nowhere fast. Sort of like the 15 lb. spare tire around my waist. I don’t know if this was a practical joke or an art installation, but I love it the same, either way. If you look closely, you’ll see that you only need to break one lock to […]

By Wade Meredith -- 0 comments

May 4th, 2007

10 Eye Widening Health Adverts

Montana Meth Project

This was a stunt by Act Up, sponsored by Benetton and without French government approval. The massive pink condom is 72 feet long.

GREEN Belgium’s goal is to give access to potable water to as many children as possible. For World Water Day, more than 500 of these Green Belgium stickers were stuck in […]

By Wade Meredith -- 0 comments

May 1st, 2007

Photo: Handicap Parking Sign with a Humorous Twist

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April 12th, 2007

Photo: The First X-Ray [1896]

Photographer: Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
Source: life.com
In 1896, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (English: William Conrad Roentgen) changed the way humans practice medicine forever. He took a photograph of what was inside his wife’s hand without doing any cutting. Imagine what an astounding advancement that was over the method at the time, which was to open you up and […]

By Wade Meredith -- 3 comments